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CROSSWORD 1072: August by Mass

A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on I September, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1072, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (one a French spelling) form two quartets across and down respectively. Chambers excludes a proper name, a trade name and (per se) the phrase at ID. Ignore, in all, three hyphens.

Name Address ACROSS 4 'Month' is one's subtle 'title' (11) 11 Aunt dined out, glutted (9) 14 Male bird's pile of dung (4) 15 Seek job with time off (3) 18 Soundless top? About right (7) 19 Block a trench badly (7) 22 Weaken spirit with strain (6) 23 A madcap housed by this French king (6) 24 Fleet's power in attack (5) 29 Full of shallows like beds of clay rock around Ohio (6) 31 Sign and import the Italian fuel suppliers (6) 34 Dentures in mugs (7)

35 Snaffle free gift that's brought round (7)

38 Not quite top primate (3) 39 Animal's dead dam (4) 41 Drill seemed automatic in part

(5)

42 Charm? He's carrying wild roses to house (9) 43 Idle state (inferior in American sense, maybe) (11) DOWN 2 A northern steer, form of lives- tock (5) 5 Uncompromising male worker

(7)

6 Violent types about, rising in frays (6) 7 Revision of thesis causes hold- ups (6) 8 Artistic paper-work, some to rig a Mikado (7) 9 Gall gets top of trunk (4) 10 Dunes also covered with decoys

(9)

15 Dress article, gripping beetle (5) 20 Shifting winds disturbing Arab veils (9) 21 Stir stew (3) 25 House party in Lincoln (5) 26 Base, with mounted idol (3)

28 Second edition, note, is to follow (7)

30 Moors' headwear for rambles, we hear (7) 32 Pain-killers for injecting animal (6) 33 None in boats on Eastern rock (6) 36 Head's a cause of tears (5) 37 Heartless noble's double (4)

Solution to 1069: Rock face

Theme: heads of US Presidents carved on Mount Rushmore, South Dakota (cf title and hint in clue 40).

First prize: Mrs H. Benson, West Kirby, Wirral; Runners-up: M. I. D. Sutherland, Maidstone; J. W. Leonard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon.

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