CROSSWORD 980: 'Daisy, Daisy . . by Mass

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 October. Entries to: Crossword 980, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 211.

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9D suggests the other unclued lights which include two phrases, one of them with its components dispersed in the diagram.

Name Address ACROSS

1 In line, bit rowdy (5)

6 Like witches adding hearts to seasoned food (7) 11 Weight caused by milk and marge, onset of obesity (10) 15 British composer's inner voice?

(4) 16 Somehow creates mineral growths in cavities (7)

17 Bouncer, Jardine's ultimate win- ner! (7)

18 Green old fowl (3) 19 Zero in garden had ravaged plant (10) 21 Dull grey pan (5)

24 Egg on vociferously until mayhem starts for all (4)

27 Girl's cut record (4) 28 Animal circling quiet fen (5) 33 Fever bug (3) 35 Sculptured round bronze, it's said, and one of tin (7) 36 Dice he's cast makes one gape

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37 Short? Not quite — make out (4) 39 Once weakened, came in about last (10) 40 True blue I'd heard rambling (7, hyphened) 41 Ankle-bone found in scree (5) DOWN 2 Badly rip scale models (8) 3 Pinch, taunt child (6) 4 Miss mark — gold — in start of archery (9) 5 Star and I in marriage scene? (5) 6 How goose capers about in pen (8) 7 Little pig's gross, on confection

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8 Spirit? The European shows drive (5) 9 See preamble (14, hyphened) 10 Count 50 small pebbles (6) 12 Common feature of fall — au- tumn — curling up (6)

20 Frank person's added subtleties 9)

( 22 Scottish food's cheap, we hear (6

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kespeare's fierce passage we'd read about (8, hyphened) 25 Parental dithers before birth (8) 26 Clay inside yellowing matter (6) 29 Chary about international game (6) 34 Oriental ego's relinquished with a yogic position (5) 35 Pulls up grass (5)