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 5 June. Entries to: Crossword 909, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Italic definitions give, in either order, the light (e.g. FASHION) and a word within it (e.g. ASH).

Name Address ACROSS 4 Acting-pilot facing adversity gets award (11, two words) 11 Catkins, odd each one in kind 12 isplayed anger (5) 13 Waver, having no attachments as a journalist (11)

14 Frogs' prince ,:t) 15 Peter's face (3)

18 Service in hackneyed style (7) • 19 Cut in profit for Scott's errand b7

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ned by treaty (6) • 23 Cells in pancreas suffer (6) 24 None? Make out old Italian (5) 27 Burnt-out force (5) 29 Clipt wig in Mac's parlour (6) 31 Enjoy Shakespeare's gibes (6) 34 Body of water indeed has sal- mon about end of June (7) 35 Sir struggling with game fish (7) 38 Young and old foam (3) 39 River bend (4)

40 Animal, a short type with twitch making for ground (11)

41 Grown-up half corrupted (5) 42 Desire coins? They might tickle one's palm! (9, hyphened) 43 Spread like growth as shown in new estimates (11) DOWN 1 Biting in alarming way (11) 2 Dress giddy May in crown (5) 3 Flattering ornamentations on metal surfaces (11, hyphened) 5 Purposeful man, we hear (7) 6 Collie's peculiar eye-spots (6)

7 Fall behind African lemur (6)

8 Old cinnamon, Eleanor (7) 9- Grass, river freeze (4) 10 Awareness from one in opinion (9) 15 Down, we hear, beside gate- tower (5) 16 Central plate with hole emitting plastic filaments (11) 17 Lack of objective and persist- ence (11) 20 Design a driveway (9) 21 Bill's mountain climbing (3) 25 A purblind Scot? Could be . misty (5) 26 Young tailless amphibian (3)

28 Old widows cross among re- mains (7)

30 Old Moslems in Spain, I'm sure (7) 32 Creature gnawing layers of rock (6) 33 Angles at eyelid junctions might cause an itch (6) 36 Raised no head like barley? (5) 37 Fair lass? Hint of auburn (4)

The solution to Crossword 906 is on page 61. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the `Post-a-Book' service.