CROSSWORD

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 29 June. Entries to: Crossword 812, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued ights, not all of a kind but having something in common, include two phrases. 19 and 40, both fami iar, are not in Chambers.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Second strong ale's tart (6) 5 Sew a thin fancy wrap (8) 11 Rush and drop (4) 13 Orchard fruit saint once cut into (6) 16 Start of everglades in lush state

(5)

17 Wait on, facelessly, getting tip

(3)

19 Fiancée? Bachelor broke tie, bored (9, hyphened) 20 Sea-anemone movin' with one bit of alga (7)

23 RS elects odd female reader (8)

24 Rock-fall in film cut (5) 25 Nucleus of key persons, 500, in charge (5) 27 Two deserters back in charge, like unruly types (8) 30 Bravely faces brutes around river (7) 35 Side petal of calamint (3) 37 Arch, coy at heart, has to yield

(5)

38 Reddish yellow grass once un- known (6) 39 Work stiff impervious clay (4) 42 Landlocks, maybe wrecks, first among skiffs (6) DOWN 1 Ancient city from region in S. America (6) 2 Old vocabulary born in Came- lot, rune involved (12) 3 Wine recipe in active state (5)

4 Coop holds a male bird (6, hyphened)

5 Man lives with the Parisian? (4)

6 Fools spoilt ninepins quietly re- moved (7)

7 Fishes with little short line (7) 8 Blunder after time in panic (6) 9 'E's brought forth, revered (8) 12 Revival concerning Moor, we hear? (7) 18 Bromic acid 'ad spilt, spread like germs (8)

21 Points to discuss in legal extract (7)

22 Gm shprings shut audibly! (8) 26 Utopia's fanciful new hero 28 A list — specifically trees (7) 29 Hold legal consultation among grim parliamentarians (6)

32 Piquant smell, they say — pro- duct of smelting (6)

34 Stately home with first of armo- rial crests (5)

36 Everybody's heard boring in- struments (4) The solution to Crossword 809 is on page 54. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.