Crossword 695

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £11.95 — ring the words Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 4 March. Entries to: Crossword 695, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Each of the unnumbered clues (which are in random order) defines two words which are anagrams of each other and which form two of the otherwise unclued lights. Ignore one hyphen.

Name

Address CLUES Secret societies top a secret society member 20 Religiously lukewarm part of UK 22

Satellitegoddess puplicates drills 23 1'001 dances Father in good health and spirits 24 Spenser's physician a Buddhist novice 1A Pumped beer full of gas, the 10 dog? (8)

contemptible colleague without emotion (13) 28 2 Disruptive sport (5)

4 A lulu, not half bashful — tipsy, too! (5) 5 One about to shoot out in a cab (6) 6 Maroons one terrestrial in

seconds (7) 10 Old Scots robber whose end Orwell, for instance, described (6)

12 Pure quality German food staniels maybe are after (13)

14 Sheep about to clear out (3} 40 43 25 26 27 29 31 32 33 38 39

15 Such as WHO, in a word? (7)

16 Sound long in s-spades (6)

17 Known to dendrologists as a

blow-back? (5) Offer to sell one a whitefish (7) Ordinary alcohol's somewhat more than old hat (7) Ensigns in the Blues, for example (7) A plainsman's a bloody-minded type after all if upset (7) A blow, initially, this old tax (5) Disgusted with a marginal reading backed by a couple of notes (5) Divert Pluto with wine (7) One giving way to a playboy at heart is one hot so young (7) Body part-fashionable indulges set-up (6) Indian community school's first complaint (7) Back to back and, contrariwise, is the same top and bottom (6) Spenser's borders a hundred Shakespearian approaches (7) The lustre of a man coming into money (5) A brave man, say, in a host of others (6) Terrorists' look-out man? (3) Songs from a left-back if she's around! (8) The solution to Crossword 692 is on page 40. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service.