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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 4 January. Entries to: Crossword 838, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (two of two words and one hyphened) are of a kind, either individually or in association with the theme word. Ignore two apostrophes.

Name Address ACROSS 10 Chief structure (4) 12 Just a small charge rewriting name on file (10, two words) 14 Row in the boardroom (3) 15 Fuss about Prince taking a long time to abuse generosity (8, two words) 18 Winged power — could be 22 22 ee 18 (6) 24 Aware of parking overhead (5, two words) 27 Criticism of regular practice once (9) 29 Letter in iron band (5) 31 He deceives captain left for dead 34 lout a round chatterer (6) 36 Poet set out going down precipi- tously into the water (7, hyphened) 38 Beetles are the same as superior cars (5) 39 I will precede gross journalist: it's unlucky (8, hyphened) 40 Goddess sending back letter (3) 41 Milton's in the ascendant — it's difficult and a drawback (10) 42 Skippers half-clasp in Scotland (4) 43 Musician greeting member and some-one inside (12) DOWN

2 Faced eastwards — aware of one's surroundings (10)

3 Kremlin's leader owned up: Russian cloth (7) 4 Inn-keeper with a plant (5) 5 Haughty ordering of prime bor- rower's notes (9) 6 This group was not one in end!

7 ad left porridge smelly (5) 9 Timed reports about missionary priest (12) 11 Homer with experts and judicial officers (8) 19 Proust the Hair-dresser (6) 20 Months by that French place of worship (6) 23 Cash and paper scattered here? (9, hyphened) 25 Bar ready — no tax to pay (8, hyphened) 30 Cross out violin from list (6) 32 Loki's daughter is not half a gas!

35 2) od of wind, rain and firma- ment (5)

37 Dig up shoots (4)

The solution to Crossword 835 is on page 51. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.