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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 (please, no photocopies) opened on 9 March. Entries to: Crossword 1047, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

The unclued lights (two of two words and three hyphened), individually or when correctly paired, are of a kind. Elsewhere ignore one apostrophe.

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ACROSS 11 From Sanskrit, a Latin transla- tion of the Bible (5) 12 Chieftain from eastern village community (4).. . 13 . . . who is involved with ring making silk (5) 15 Thief having diamond of a small size (10, hyphened) 17 The way right round the pick-up van (5) 21 Fine morning that's part of sum- mer. Certainly! (6) 26 Controlled by junior (5) 27 Wonder-worker likely around end of week (5) 28 From Canterbury, Kent, to pass in Scotland (4)

30 The group UO2: after half an hour, some start to liquefy (6)

31 Sublime literary heroine embracing member and a learner (8) 36 It's tops in rodeo entertainment as tourist attraction (5) 38 Few England changes are in- novative (10) 39 CID ate out at end of May. Such gluttony! (7) 40 Loamy deposit is inferior with oxygen in (5) 41 Fool around? I don't understand

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43 On your marks for the first course degrees (14, two words) DOWN 1 Pity about rules for men on oriental boat (14) 2 Garland, undoubtedly, for casual wear (7) 4 Vegetable is awfully hard out- side (6) 5 Girl coming up from city (one American city) (5) 6 Trick putting snake back in bag (8) 7 Incite to attack second school (5, two words) 8 Dangerous state with the weather (5) 9 Barometers showing where 37 gales blow (14, hyphened) 16 Surpass 40, it's said (5) 18 One king in US city that's very black (4) 19 Money former judge exchanged for spread in magazine (10) 22 Move clumsily in the nude, about midnight (5) 25 The gang were exultant (4) 33 Weber is upset by gossip, master

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34 pple: about one measure of beer (5) 35 A canvas lifted, otherwise (5) 37 See 9 (4)