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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 1 September. Entries to: Crossword 771, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 9 PM's seated centrally (4)

11 Temple might afford me a haunt round East (9)

12 Beetles run in grass, circling (4) 14 Top piece from 100 assorted tiars (6)

16 Clip short, including silver hairy parts of ears (5)

17 Rise for worker finally (5)

20 Tipsy in looks and song? (7)

21 Party with the European tag (7) 24 Girl with cataract in a hoed, needing treatment (7) 25 Dispute endlessly and well (5) 26 Girl possessed antique article (5) 28 One that skims about, eaten by adder (7) 31 Swan with one curled feather (7, two words) 34 Skin disease gets leg, with ter- riers (7) 37 Knave short in card game (5) 38 Drink in due course brought back disorder (5) 39 Odd pea in dwarf tripod (6) 40 Search for Mac among maskers (4) 41 Audibly insolent driver (9) 42 Tripe, pound in weight (4) 43 Inseparable, needing pliers etc in bid to loosen (14) DOWN 1 Joyous old faithful embracing samt (6) 2 Timber yield cut, above a river

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3 A rani's twitching, left of nostrils 4

Cast off for hour in tug (5)

5 Gathers Ted's taken to place of rest (7) 6 Bangers taint — soon off (7) 7 Zizel from S. America, prob- ably? Not quite (6) 8 Gneved about girl with rents (8) 10 Inflammation: hat cardinal raised is hiding it (10) 13 Fine writer in pen catalogue (7) 15 Worn-out below 'eight, wasted (8, hyphened) 18 Lowest Shakespearian charac- ter, Tom's ashiver (10) 19 Sink's a brute, raised for set of pipes (8) 22 Happened on prince's private chambers (7) 23 Bread, tea and pie, we hear (8) 27 Stumped making poor return (7, three words) 29 Nick caught rear leg (7) 30 Secret much-used look-out (6) 32 Bag holds food, but there's no time for lunch (6) 33 Store fodder — measure lies about (6) 35 Present from HM (5) 36 Horse fed with Arabic fruit (5)