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837: Indian summer byNfass A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 21 December. Entries to: Crossword 837, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each italic tribe, or pair of tribes, contains the letters of the light, which is also defined: e.g. 'Shawnee: fowl (3)' would give HEN. The other clues each contain a definition and a hidden jumble (in sequence) of the light's letters.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Cherokees, resplendent without equal (8) 5 Pueblo attachment like an orange (6) 9 HaidalTlingits: sponges (10) 14 Quinault: cask (3) 16 He, Tananka Yotanka—revered one of old (6) 17 Assiniboin: part of a human head

(5)

18 Hiawatha trapping, like Lone Wolf? (5) 20 For Sitting Bull I boiled, stewed meat (7) 22 Old-time Indians confined (7) 24 Lillooet/Arikara: syndicate (7) 25 Tillamooks: bench (5) 26 Gabrielinos: crumbs (5) 28 Geronimo's frenzy inspires (7) 31 Fast, we hear, Mandan braves

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33 Lace moccasin, put knots in? Old, without eyelets (7) 37 Siletz/Han: implement (5) 38 Hidatsa/Cree: screen (5) 39 Gros VentrelOsage: neck orna- ment (6) 40 Natchez: old timber vessel (3)

41 Loud snort in a tepee (10)

42 Wichita/Sarsi: rock (6) 43 In centre Sioux makes war dance movements (8) DOWN 1 Bluntness from Sitting, Bull again, a gen Plainsman (13, two words) 2 Ancient totem pole, heap big one (5) 3 Thlingchadinne: bird (6) 4 Potawatomis: grass (5) 6 An asset at buffalo hunts (7) 7 Coeur D'Alene: spiny bit of cac- tus (6) 8 Pokanoket: water vessel (4) 10 Drab home, i.e. slab house (6) 11 TarahumareslMicmacs: feast (9) 12 Such as screen wigwams in cen- tral Georgia with pelts (13, two words) 13 Nations incited by government trenchancy (8) 15 Despair Tecumseh voiced with tribes effectively reduced (7) 19 Attempts to communicate with smoke signals diligently (9) 21 Warriors'? All old idlers now (8) 23 BlackfootlSeri: fish (7) 27 Vessel is Navajo's, without fault

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29 PawneelTahltan: weed (6) 30 Axe once used on warpath's buried (6) 32 MohicanslUte: talisman (6) 34 Shoshoni/Creek: money (5') 35 Kitksan: dress material (5)

36 Tuscarora: necklace (4)(