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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 17 June. Entries to: Crossword 1011, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Each of three correctly associated pa'rs of unclued lights is said to be one of the remaining three unclued lights (one of three words and one hyphened).

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 6 Young animal coming round mid-season fog (7, hyphened) 11 RAF-man i/c fire for a change (10, hyphened) 13 Some time ago, fashion rejected pillar in front of cathedral (9, two words) 15 Spring race (4) 16 Approaches a deity out East (7) 18 Address in Poplar Terrace (3) 21 Tips of organically raised aspar- agus costing half this vegetable

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serve some. Fear not! (4) 27 River Fleet: included in from start to finish (4) 28 Belly of ewe-lamb, doubly be- headed (5) 30 Just the chaps to break Doc's rules about normality, initially (10) 33 American escape from police- beat (3) 35 Take, for example, outside and sharpen again (7) 36 Precise white man getting mar- ried (7) 37 It blows back up North to top of Aconcagua (4) 38 Repay in kind returning letter afterwards without one (9) 40 Slily look back at monarch's custodians (7) 41 In Scotland, cure is repose — including a bit of exercise! (5) DOWN 1 Rider from island, getting up (14, three words) 2 Author upsetting US soldier without continuous beat of drum (8

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zabethan favourite out of glare with Henry (6) 4 In Mainz, please split extreme (9, two words) 6 Ancient European river-plain by source of Rhine (8) 7 In the manner of stern monarch (5) 9 Moving excerpt (red bits) for set-book (14, two words) 10 Attitudiniser rose up, swopping top and tail (6) 12 English puzzle that's hell (6) 14 Enthusiastic about Tyneside chant (6) 20 Bird beheading 3, maybe, in riotous wake (9, hyphened) 23 Behold! Poets are harness- workers (8) 26 Rebuilding court's trap-door (6) 29 Sirenian having mystical power, note (6) 32 What's the batsman made? 20

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34 A flower came into being (5) 35 Deserves degrees (5)