CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions opened on 4 December. Entries to: Crossword 935, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each across unclued light is associated with one of the unclued down lights (one of three words), all verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore one apostrophe.

Name Address

112 3 1

10

11 12

13

17

19

2-21

27

32 33 34

36 37

39

41

17

1271

37

35 40

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ACROSS 1 Standard article, calculated for clauses without connectives (12) 10 Cutting memorandum (4) 12 Part of garment torn: result, gore (10, hyphened) 14 Superior person's head (3) 18 Barren lime-trees lopped with- out me (7) 19 Tapir writhing by top of the enclosure (6, hyphened) 22 Half a score entering home for Indonesian (6) 24 Refine latex mixture (5) 26 Sidekick backing robust club (9) 27 Gallant French singer (9) 29 This defensive work is a revolu- tionary one (5) 31 Supporter giving state outer self- support (6) 34 Almost absolutely wideawake inattentively! (6) 38 Lover of Lamb, one with im- petuosity outside (5) 40 Half island is printed thus (3) 41 Scottish idle person, alias Olwen Reede (10, doubly hyphened) 42 Cast part (4) 43 Ingrained habit of poor Euston dancer (12, two words) DOWN 2 Gloat about upper air without exception (10) 3 Marginal note getting office in trouble (7) 4 Herons deserted in surrounding region (5) 5 Wooing dismissed, we hear, on boat (9) 6 Is it back in as woad? (6) 7 Some third-rate ruler? On re- flection, big chief! (5, hyphened)

8 Doughty Hill (4)

11 Maintained tidiness, maybe (8) 13 Copying new-style bed in coach at mid-night (12)

16 Design one during the morning (3)

20 Web-spinning could be later — end of February (6)

21 Stationery for simple examina- tion questions (10, two words). 28 Player (Border) leading with six

and duck (7) 30 Hindu who's low-down, also (6)

32 Endlessly chastise little girl (3). 33 Prim but topless and put in prison (5)

35 Regular army quarter-cloth (5) 37 Airmen's units (4)