CROSSWORD 841: When's when by Mass

A first prize of 120 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 1 February. Entries to: Crossword 841, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The italic definitions give answers whose lengths are shown in brackets. They must be entered in a manner variously suggested by 20 Down, thus forming the other unclued lights (one of them of two words).

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ACROSS 1 Pity (3) 4 Hear booms splintering in ves- sels (9) 9 Modifies (6) 11 Reels but not square fishing boards (6) 12 Brown bread (5) 14 See state's inhabitant (5) 15 Assail a Greek buckler (5) 16 Utter start of threnody, sad song (6

22 Vi)ew vehicle's tilt (8) 23 Daggers close to point in skull (7)

24 Gore with instrument (4) 25 Rune carved into case (4) 27 Charge (4) 29 Part of arm Scot injured, dressed with tacky stuff (8) 32 Ancient city creates interest in S. America (6) 34 Island has atomic ring (5) 35 Lamb-like, sheep's heart, on round plate (5) 36 Coins (4) 37 Shapes almost bore him, oddly (6) 38 Place for score — about 101, total runs (10, hyphened) 39 Canopies (7)

40 Making bow for drawing (5)

DOWN 1 One that sails quietly over lake in skiing position (10, hyphened) 2 Some pessimistic talk of a stroke

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3 Hydrocarbon: none remaining, short in supply (6) 4 Teacher's written up German for 'dish' (7) 5 Tool hit, cracked ear-bone (7) 6 Gold sea shell (5) 7 Stir over point in Mass's Jumbos 8 ristle, rigid one (4) 10 Workers' routine procedures (9)

13 Yearn for (4) 15 Previously unknown convent (6)

17 Excursions (5) 18 Less advanced, Sweden's bridge players (7) 19 Discharging (7) 20 See preamble (9, two words) 21 Gun, old Scottish 12-pound piece, sawn off (6) 26 Cote, lit, confused bird (7, hyphened) 28 Beast of burden, and skills, for forest clearings once (7) 30 Smear with tar (3) 31 Some gut Troy, reportedly (5) 33 Forbidden, new nerve gas (5) 34 One and only border (4)