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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 opened on 26 February. Entries to: Crossword 945, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL

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Each unclued down light is said to have been dedicated to an unclued across one. Two other lights are of two words (one, like a third normal light, sometimes hyphened).

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Without a stake in guitars? (8) 9 Pick a capital side showing, in substance, only slight variations of form (10) 14 Not wholly all the same to a girl 16 Wrong ong clue with right setting to hold back, as it were (6) 20 Girlgiven time to produce pass- word (7) 22 Chuck out an article in a game

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24 Mild oath from Little Richard at a loose end in Cyprus (7) 26 About 2.54cm, that's easy! (5) 28 Birds and rodents taking in a fixed amount (7) 31 Metal-worker's pipe — mostly ash in it! (7) 33 Return ends on a loss? (7) 37 They tend to mount diamonds in squares (5) 38 Team's joke about temple gate- way (5) 39 Grubs' coarse meals (6) 40 Geological feature's retrograde look (3) 41 Apt to swear about matlo in jam in river (10) 42 Way to delay 32 (6) 43 Substitute record, having left one in a double-take (8) DOWN 1 Cost of Her Grace's vice, perhaps (13) 2 Was worked up in being found out (5) 3 On board it's a confounded stop- page (6) 4 Getting knotted? No, hitched!

6 Exercise journalists to a stand- still (7)

8 Material contribution to 43 (4) 11 Lean sort of food welcomed by Vegans (9) 12 An aircraft-carrier's stout con- struction (13) 13 Sort of Oriental respect (8) 15 Quash unknown Northerner (7) 21 The Scandinavian, out of ele- ment? (8) 27 Has a number in to soak in turn, the little beast (7) 29 Lawless type of State; Arizona?

30 omer on a chandelier (6) 32 Effulgent, like a digger at heart 34 riminal protection (5) 35 Vicar in trouble? Could be the weed! (5) 36 Beldame taking wrong turning (4)