CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 5 January. Entries to: Crossword 788, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unclued lights (two with hyphens disregarded) will Produce no 17 if 23.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Copy amended except 'y': cross out(6) 5 Scruples perplex in saints (8) 10 Letter, short plaint, upset do- gooder (14) 11 Mouldings, decay, around last of gladioli (4) 13 Agree to a varsity mag (6) 16 Measure, hint of anapaest, in Oedipus Rex, say (5) 17 See preamble (3) 19 Helps t' CID unravelling issue not one's own (9, hyphened) 23 See preamble (8)

25 One snared by crazy allurements (5) 27 Extols a hundred scallops I con- sumed (8) 30 Strange twisted T-shaped hinges (7)

33 A doctor prescribed course ab- out fashionable hormone (9) 35 Gross, short smoker? (3) 37 Entertain dude and Queen (5) 38 Resident, mainly inactive: drop in (6) 39 Note duck-egg in game (4) 40 Using generated power tells — I decree at random, in charge (14, hyphened) 41 Initiate had meal, having alimentary canal (8) DOWN 1 Record Doc and I made, with lyrical quality (6) 3 Giant bird with a wren's tail (5) 4 Plain lover, not original (6) 5 Cleaner hasn't finished round t' porch (4) 6 Hero, see, berserk, so put out- side (7) 8 Raw cotton that is for Scottish bird (6) 9 Abide by 'arsh criterion (8) 12 Like 21, indeed, among crumb- ling ruins (7) 14 Notice male gang sticking together (8) 15 At sea the isle's bobbing about — abnormal impression from distance (12) 18 Lincoln has soldiers in sober support (8) 21 Lives, settles in woods among prairies? (7) 22 Said babe could be descendant of Mohammed's uncle (8) 26 More genial — kind of hemp dispersed ire (7) 29 Girl in GT gets gooseberry from Jock (6) 31 Florid gold flipped over on palm (6) 32 Old owl from street, full-toned (6) 34 Bird in chimney heard (5) 36 Sounds like 'ha'penny for the guy?' (4)