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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions (please, no photocopies) opened on 27 December. Entries to: Crossword 1038, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The nine unclued lights can be divided into two quintets comprising five pairs. At 28 solvers may enter either of the two Possible answers. Chambers does not give 27.

Name Address ACROSS 5 Hydrocarbon is out of line (6) 6 Promotes two England openers in Oval Test, maybe (10, two words) 14 See 33 (3) 16 Wreath could be manmade without mass (6) 17 River and mountain range in the countryside (5) 18 Strip off clothes, bringing about ruin in middle of night (5)

20 Do time, having broken lyre totally (7)

22 Handles of scythes below, on board (7) 24 Fashionable state backing re- publican attacker (7) 25 Not a single person appearing to be Number 1 (5, hyphened) 26 Small party's taking in male members (5) 31 One's outer attractiveness and inspirational quality (7) 33 14 is surrounding no plants lack- ing pigment (7) 38 Grammar explained on a tablet, partly (5) 39 Town could be angular without leader (6) 40 See half of 42 changing (3) 41 Suggests Savalas with Steffi's sig- nals (10) 43 Let 34 be adapted for the arms of the IoM (8) DOWN 1 Ballet star, 40 — could be. Baryshnikov is one (13) 2 See 23 (5) 3 Check grant for panel (6) 4 Lake awfully near swamp (5) 7 Metal bar over a hat (6) 8 Date that is timeless (4) 10 Trim tree (6) 11 They're punters, of course! (9)

12 Time's up! Army manoeuvres in mid-week produce burnt smell (13)

15Calm to continue cradle-song (7) 23 Old measure he placed in 2, somehow (7) 27 Perceived by the faculties as money out East (7) 29 Deprive of spirit and nous, perhaps, before mid-July (6)

30 King suggests Spectator col- umnist (6)

32 Trees, with tip of roots in dales, cut up (6) 34 Sportsman's steepling stroke (5) 36 End up with brass instrument (4)