CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, price now £12.95 — ring the words `Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 10 March. Entries to: Crossword 746, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (all more than one word) and those clued otherwise than by definition are of a kind. Ignore four hyphens and (elsewhere) one accent.

Name Address ..................................................................................... Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS

9 Restless Rose, lost in city (4) 12 Record by Pluto, top of charts (4) 14 Some of the Flower People's fiddles? (6) 16 Tribe appearing twice nightly, in part (5) 17 Wild sheep having posh den, on reflection (5) 20 Trad ICI development, having 3 replaceable hydrogen atoms (7) 21 Very active Gentoo collapsed around hospital (7, three words) 25 Gallant undergraduates lam- basted leftist youth-leaders (5) 26 Employers giving us bitter vetch

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31 It sheds light on a swindle in- volving class (7, hyphened) 34 Get Amis confused and produce a curved letter (7) 37 Believer in the divinity of France's single saint (5) 38 Stay a month next to model's heart (5) 39 Pressurise by removing British from Middle East country (6, two words) 40 Case of incomplete tuition (4) 42 The old queen's not old after one! (4) 43 Disreputable fellow brought ab- out cash and carry death (14, two words)

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1 Dance and feasts before mar- riage vow (6, hyphened) 2 Hispano-Germanic articles of former origin (5) 3 Letter I have for case (6) 4 Royal house's head missing for eucalyptus tree (5) 5 Flightless birds are confused ab- out a small one (7) 6 Heard confirming the upper limit (7) 7 The Spanish in cove, changing with great speed (6) 8 Sabbaths — when there's no play (8, hyphened) 13 Copper deserted — begins to work for clubs (7) 15 Like 27, broken plaque in out- skirts of Oswestry (8) 22 Silver jar, please (7) 23 Fetches higher price than loss lute made again (8) 27 Symbolic public notice with ostentatious surround (7) 29 Measure applied to a German chapter (7, two words) 30 Grace the French with one in a General Assembly (6) 32 Attach new umbrella (6) 33 Young bird's eye (6) 35 City's very large, having a double (5)

36 Wearing simple helmet outside (5)