CROSSWORD

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 29 July. Entries to: Crossword 1017, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Four of the unclued lights (one of two words) and 41 + 27 are of a kind, and can become the remaining unclued lights and 28 + 15.

Name Address ACROSS 1 See 41 (5) 6 Disrupt gang during meal. Not half (7, two words) 11 Catlike print he has developed

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15 digations with or without some French (4) 17 Eccentric fellow's money (7) 18 One-time worker (3) 19 Perform rapid chords, rearrang- ing giga repeat (10) 21 Old expenment backing some revolutionary assertion (5) 24 Market place back North, almost (4) 27 Shut in? Enclose? Just a bit (4) 28 Very severe plane crash (5) 30 From which to serve and yet return round to consume bread (10, hyphened) 33 Measures three points (3) 35 Moving slowly towards island at midnight (7) 36 Bafflement from error omitting duke (7) 37 There's still one believed in- habiting the Himalayas (4) 39 Agitated Frenchman coming in after 9, maybe (10, three words) 41 Fences around lA (5) DOWN 1 Imaginary feeling turning up as the disease (14) 2 Tension about seedings (8) 3 Bring forward a shelf, we hear 6) 5 ome unconditional rumour (5, hyphened) 6 Fish unsettling settlers (8) 8 Shakespeare's old orders (5) 9 They make pithy sayings about those girls' soap (14) 10 Old clowns resistant to riot gas (6) 12 Tsho, apparently; a Japanese religion (6) 14 Price including fashionable fab- ric (6) 22 Confirm in trial (6) 23 Skin tumour to make male moan (8) 25 Dine out on old stout and take one's life (8, three words) 26 Composer's city carriage (6) 29 Protection for a projecting build- ing about noon? (6) 31 He is up about the French girl 32 Russian political prison-hoax about mid-July (5) 35 Mountains in the Urals with 49 cairns (5)