CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 23 September. Entries to: Crossword 724, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one hyphened) comprise three theme-words and a pair of associated words for each.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Barber breaks back (5)

4 Raised up Oriental audibly boasting (9) 9 Head heads for high-ups of Eastern Churches (10, two words) 11 Measure consumed — outwardly growing (5) 12 Separate one in case, dead (7) 15 Flat, governor needs a pound (5) 16 Ministers embracing royal fashions (6) 22 'Top Ten' oddly grips sap (7) 25 Silent? Add sound effects including snatch of music (4) 27 Study high yield (7) 28 Dud pilot quite over quinsy (8) 33 Let through hand? Almost (6) 34 Mature Debussy's nothing without piano (5) 35 Like a pipe, one right behind bath (5) 37 Point on a garden-tool, we hear, gives pain (7) 38 Slow, long boat (5) 39 Stress an 'acute' etc, in amended version (10) 40 Profane creeds concocted by a banished goddess (9) 41 Wax seal's face shows a goddess

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2 Holding fishing-tackle over northern river (6)

5 Cleric shaved head immediately (4)

6 Lassie's trimminggarment round part of leg (7)

7 Webs indeed in finial (5) 10 Fiction? Tale is intriguingly well done! (13) 15 Duck caught in sea plant (6) 17 Liquor sobersides stashed in trunk (6) 18 One in neckwear raised uproar (6) 19 Sluggish? Gym help? Possibly

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20 Lower me into valley (6) 23 With king & queen in a game I made declaration at bezique (8) 26 Nonsense makes baron foam (7) 29 Dull pain reported after work (6) 30 Island housing Atomic Institute (6) 31 Thump the Gallic dean (6) 32 Hear a gun, Irene? (5) The solution to Crossword 721 is on page 37.