CROSSWORD 881: Bears out by Jac

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 7 November. Entries to: Crossword 881, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Four unclued lights and eight lights clued without overall definition (ignoring an apostrophe and a hyphen) provide eleven objects which are of a kind in that they describe four things likewise of a kind. One normal light is of two words, one's of three (doubly hyphened) and one's of four.

Name Address ACROSS 1 More than just the odd favourite

food (8)

5 An infidel in charge did it (6) 9 Dem's formerly 2 & 6? (10) 14 Creature a backward light takes to heart (3) 16 Girl's one-in-three fates (6) 17 Game chaps (5) 18 A soldier's fortune is without return (5)

20 Set a leg broken after a knock (7)

22 Was, till then, vile? (7) 24 Retired soaks allowed fish (7) 25 Away with new footwear (5) 28 Heartless 24's leg-wear? (7) 31 Critical notes about a sailor in the women's quarters (7) 33 Extra-large Indian fern (7) 37 This bird a boy? (5) 38 40 abroad, or nearly (5) 39 A square in one town or another (6

40 See)

38 (3) 41 Initially produces change in plants (10) 42 Sang about handymen missing a point (6) 43 Loss of money in law (8) DOWN 1 A diarist's nobody! (13) 2 University academic in support of the French theologian (5) 3 Poke one in (6) 4 A stimulating experience to note

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6 Beats first in insects (7) 7 Preceded a service upbringing (6) 10 Plants before the end of March (6) 11 OT books' condition, according to Spenser (9) 12 Occupy oneself between dates, perhaps — life's without possible limit, then? (13) 13 Indues artist with blank letter- heads — they last (8) 15 Bespatter god by himself (7) 19 Rarefied one-time manner of dress around middle class East End (9) 21 Japanese salmon some natives ensnared (8)

23 The convict to arrive on time?

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27 Get into Scotch — then black- out! (7) 29 Muse about a former king's fore- ign aunt (6) 30 Nothing mother's without, for instance (6) 32 A wood-louse's tool (6) 35 16's endlessly crazy folly (5) The solution to Crossword 878 is on page 60. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service.