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 8 May. Entries to: Crossword 955, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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The unclued lights are of a kind, though the origin of the across ones differs from that of the down ones. Elsewhere 'gnore an apostrophe.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Hidden corridors having extracts from the Apocrypha apparently (14, two words) 9 The best texture (4) 11 Motor-race bloomer (9) 12 Triumphant calls from London suburb, on reflection (4) 14 Daily's good example (6) 16 Toxic albumin identified in turmeric, initially (5) 17 Provide delicacy to head of restaurant (5) 24 Composer rearranging L'Aigle' and Rachmaninov's First (7) 25 University's fabulous beasts (5) 26 In a perpendicular position in coop () 28 Non-profit-making foundation being cautious about sex-appeal
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31 efts of money (7) 34 Queen getting money, market- ing (7
37 Small) party account backing intrigue (5)
38 Interchangeable fertiliser (5) 39 Station always outside region deflecting wireless waves (6, hyphened) 40 Scandinavian tales of unspeci- fied date (4) 41 Verse about Rolleston (9) 43 Become afraid, having overseen lesson maybe (14, three words) DOWN
1 Fighting in Australian state, with justice and home-rule (6)
3 Green Party freak once troubled do (6) 4 King pair at 01.00 hours! (5) 5 Different one: different woman!
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6 ook rapidly — cooking first on railway (7, hyphened) 7 Call twice for angular piece (6) 10 Bird fancying, showing a bird of ff a devounng mice s innards 13 t could be a barn-owl sculptured round about here somehow (7) 15 Judges including former boosts
for the economy (8)
18 Some rennet curdling mid-gut (10) 27 Advance gripping tool (7) 29 Whirling banshee who's lost in- fluence (7, hyphened) 30 Oxford University final ex- amination for renowned folk (6) 33 Squalor of square pasture (6) 35 Message from a tower (5) 36 Flight of melody under way (5)
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