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A first prize of thirty pounds and two further prizes of fifteen pounds will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 10 January. Entries to: Jumhojac, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

ACROSS

14 Imperfectly dance? A flaw somehow in that! (7) 16 Resolved to start a fight (3, 4) 17 Visionary having to hurry along, outwardly tipsy (9) 18 In it a retired writer appears fatuous (5) 19 Heartless Soviet national canonised in Town (6) 21 State it's initially it (5, 9) 22 Trustworthiness concerning a debt (I I) 25 Not so cruel as cousin Michael's offspring (6) 29 Roman poet's appropriately named tavern Caesar tastelessly described (6)

30 Sand-bank in river on borders of Ecuador (5)

34 One-time revolutionary's sphere of action (5)

35 Harshly criticise the foreign jury

36 Ab) road, is done right (7) 37 Honeycombed figurehead a lovesick goddess produced (9) 39 Jade article with tin alloy setting

in a national emblem (9)

42 A meet setting for a Yankee ghost (5) 44 Is settled without being bought over ( 10) 45 Runs through again on the abomasa (7) 47 Back-hair styles, cut short (4) 49 Dramatist's endless obstacle (6) 31 Was not a way to nullify (6) 33 Fat girl suited to a T (4) 34 Burden to forbear (7) 36 Compare, as it were, as in fur- ther get-together, say (10) 37 8D's end as before in rust (5) 63 Fruit drink, very soft-bodied and with no head (4-5) 64 Direction taken in public disorder (7) 66 Aerofoil that works equally well back to front (5) 68 See 7D (5) 3 Back up impudent talk about , what put Buddha in the shade (5) 74 Vehicle in which one another follows (6)

75 Tool for dressing leather spread out in heraldic lines (10-4)

76

IThYllotria's highest note a lyric

77

Poem extended (6) Having doctor round is mainly best, note, once uncle's suited ill (11)

81 Drew out a unit of germ-plasm as ordered (6) 82 Understand it's 3/4 inch (5)

83 Imperious beetle backing what a 84 chafer does inside (9) Jehovah's witness, a lady of per- suasion (7)

IS In Iowa, city of plain buildings? 86 (7)

Shakespeare's anointed king, Perhaps — dry-eyed, he bottled Celt up (6, 7, 2, 3, 4)

bOWN 1 Worm-like re-structuring, brim-

ful with Romic characters (12) , Overnice at heart, is possibly , more homologous (8)

3 Bore out the March Hare's hid- den nuisance value (5)

, Hinterland animal (4)

Each unclued I ght s of three or more words; the seven such lights, arranged in correct order (ignoring one apostrophe and a hyphen), area not Inappropriate 29-word quotation from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Name Address 9) 13 ( It may move one a lot, getting in- volved in crooked races (9) 15 See 32D (8) 20 Health Centre diggers besiege for soft drinks (8) 23 Type of attachment to furnish mid-week (9) 24 Uproar in City a literary bear supports (10) 26 Short of Franco-German articles 54 (5) 5 Is a Continental lass able to get into the groove? (8) 6 Specifically, one infanta's com- position (8) 7 Growth of skill in a singular sort of 68A (7) 8 Time to kill Garland's ox (7) 9 Feeding a river with one in under a third of a minute (8) 11 Unknown woman embracing non-U British King's edentates

Got better beer in The Duck no food, though! (6)

Like French international road transport in motion (5) The State of Indiana lacks nothing for a type of 15D sup- plier (6) Plot disagreeable torment (7) American with no initial rise in responsibility (4) Spare book (7) Not streaking, slipping out of one's girdle? (9) Measure certain to give safety (6) Food raised in Podunk, for in- stance (4) Oddly determined Deputy Lieutenant got stuck in? Got his nose stuck in! (12) Spanish horsehair? (5) A maid once always turned up and made merry (8) • 27 31 32 33 40 41 43 46 48 50 52 55 In running water, bearing waste materials (6) 58 A constellation an apostle described as variable (9) 59 Author in a way exhausted (5) 60 Once pointed out a rare company all heaped together (9) 62 Full of fire like 17A (8) 65 Most delightful swing for a Scot on trial (8) 67 First placed below medium musi- cian (8) 69 I7A's bright contrast (8) 70 The English Doctor's legume? Such gall! (8) 71 Deficient, the French gauge for slates? (7) 72 Promptly, once having embraced a thousand and one (about) birds (7) 78 Bearing on Spenser's left-over record (5) 80 Eat out in 75A (4)