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905: Changing places by Doc

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 905, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS tion (12) 16 Bird beheading chicken (3) 10 Thick ribbon for cushions (4) 19 Nags wait up-street (6) 17 Irritating and almost malicious (10, two words) — result Irish oaths (6) it's said (7) 22 Clergyman in love — one in 32 Drink from mid-Wales (3) 24 Least-variable unit (5) blizzard (5) without one act of retribution (9) 37 Game without new egg (4)

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chimney-top (5) 34 Putrefaction of mouldy pies on board (6) 36 Solvent dissolving one lute (7) 38 Girl whose charm is only half an untruth (5) 39 Scott's game against Queen, brought to book, once (8) 40 Measure or half-measure (3) 41 Churchmen bringing river ves- sels around Spanish village (10, two words) 42 Taking time off Mac's swing (4) 43 Call, untie and let out enlight- ened person (12) DOWN 3 Points on fish's sloughs (7) 4 Account in the old clasp (5) 5 'Shiny Dart' in air crash (9) 6 Salt upsetting Queen embraced by Indo-European (6) 7 Such a bloomer is over half way to a calamity (5) 8 Policy sketch (4) 9 Horticulturalist moving hedera, without danger, maybe (12, two words) seen in Leicestershire on reflec-descriptive of The Widow' (12) tuber (3) 21 Hillside journey — a brainwave

(5) 25 Off-duty lecturer was up, about

two words) church-recess (6) 33 Rough sound? It's a northern