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 30 October. Entries to: Crossword 930, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each of the other unclued lights (one p ural) may be seen loosely as a 9 13. These lights include two phrases and (disregarded) an apostrophe and a hyphen. Chambers does not give 4, 28 and the well-known 43. Ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 10 Lower Jurassic fly? That's going back (4) 12 Slice of veal fancied, minced, about right to the French (10) 14 Bird from East with cut face

(3)

15 Antique piny gate, unhinged (8) 17 Plant bent over before us in wind

(5)

18 Fragments of lines from me abroad about bereavement (7) 19 Stick at a sweet potato (6) 22 Morepaltry, outmoded, loose drivel (6) 24 Just over 1000 last month taken in — many, that means (5) 26 Academic's touching beloved old sculpture (9, hyphened)

27 1 loan a bit out for considerable

items (9) 29 Lord, say, featured in press (5) 34 Jog memory, note object (6) 38 Person reported with classy cape

(5)

39 Time Ephraim changed Hebrew images (8) 40 Priest among Israelites (3) 41 Ignored, girl's told (10) 42 Parrot coo! — Unknown (4) DOWN 2 Houdini, rid, wriggled like a worm (10) 3 German name given to a fern (7)

4 Girl, one short of kidney (5)

5 Strange thing seen on autumn evening (9) 6 Tree producing a drug in S.A. (6) 7 A nothing in the underworld for so long! (5) 8 Greek god's faces (4) 16 A quiet wood (3) 19 Drink around Botswana for nomad (6) 20 Approved reform round East (6) 21 Sea creature — perch, to one mistaken (10) 23 Silliness from one fool heard in a dive (9) 25 Wind? I be struggling with colic! (8) 28 Organised tour takes in ailing painter (7) 30 Tree folk, it's said (6) 32 Rubber, some useful eraser (3) 33 Taiwan has spies round and ab- out (5) 35 Calls Kentish soldier up? (5) 37 Eye lacks power of ears! (4) The solution to Crossword 927 is on page 52.

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