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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 9 March. Entries to: Crossword 796, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each unclued across light, in association with the same word (which solvers must name), is described by an unclued down one, I Down being of two words.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Suspicious if retiring and bashful (5) 4 Girl circling ravine for plant (9)

9 Confused, dupes came closely after (10) 11 Frost's spoken aspect of verse ) 15 ( Dog has nothing in for tea! (5) 16 An accustomed walk in a circle (6) 21 cots solicitor loaned out a truant (8, hyphened) 22 Roll with prostitute on Orcadian cloth (7) 27 It's pretty tall, Woman getting all the leavings (7) 28 Lemaitre perplexed dealing with data-processing (8) 33 Group measure (6) 34 In Scotland, Brains knows about • the Navy (5) 35 Return of soap-opera left out cold dish (5) 37 One spirit including that classical single element (7) 39 First in ballet, leaving the rest far behind (10) 40 Overstrained — perfect! (9, two words) 41 Additive in brewing, as in still!

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DOWN 2 Stick fast. (But where?) (6) 4 Tune from me at turn of old year (6) 5 Vessel containing gas mostly (4) 6 Sounds of a male equine? (7) 7 See 9 (5) 8 Tells of close election results (8) 10 Sinister fortress and drive in GB (13, four words) 13 E.-W. confrontation showing latitude in fishing dispute (7, two words) 15 One female bird or another without a male (6, hyphened) 17 Adorn unfortunate philosopher losing his head (6) 18 Vehicle always making progress (6) 19 Cleanse some French bird rising

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20 Ginger's family upsetting scouts (6) 23 Genus maybe near a drowned valley (8) 26 Descriptive of 'Hair'? Sure hit, possibly! (7) 31 Copper's twofold grain (6) 32 Out of condition? Just a rumour (5, hyphened)