CROSSWORD A first prize of £20 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 August. Entries to: Crossword 867, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights (three of two words), either 'ndividua ly or when correctly paired, are of a kind. Brewer confirms 38 Across. Ignore one apostrophe.
Name Address ............ . ACROSS 9 Incur a name change — it's not like Uncle Sam! (10, hyphened) 14 Additional points (3) 17 Pot-bellied bird is off the Indian dish! (5) 18 Instrument returned before U- boat (5) 20 Cradle-song left a bully dis- turbed (7) 22 Lets go one article for bloomer
25 B(7 ird embracing one young lover (5)
31 Fashionable nurses' means (7) 33 Seduce girl who's coming out with gold by church (7) 37 See 43 (5) 38 Circe's home having a couple of drainage channels (5) 39 A churchman has a projection at the back (6) 41 Proceeding confuses Hodge again (10, two words) 42 Test once. It's the last word (6) 43 37's in strange birds (8) DOWN 1 Fortune would fetch ark out (13, four words)
2 Bird of the plain and uplands? (5)
3 Fights, we hear, for stones? (6) 4 Hair-splitting about Jumbo's first flight (5) 6 Affronts during' last month on board (7) 7 Read A.V. out for a month (6) 8 Nearly flat (4) 10 Pass tin round, Henry! (6) 12 Reveal the hand and seize the opportunity (13, three words) 13 Caterer turning east to play a sport (8) 15 Just a piano? (7) 19 Are we deft arranging this supply to a boiler? (9, hyphened) 23 With an ungainly walk and im- poverished, it's said (7, hyphened) 27 Popular food with some of the relish and herb (7) 29 It yields manna and silver during hail-storm (6) 30 Region having no southern peninsula (6) 32 Roman emperor upsetting con- trivance one month (6) 35 Rhea's garment (5) 36 Timeless conservative with ten deer (4)
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