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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 8 February. Entries to: Crossword 842, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The four unclued across and the four unclued down lights (all in Chambers), when each group is arranged in correct sequence, provide belief (OED Supplement) and movement.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Shut up! The tale's different for a competitor! (11) 11 Salt, say, or maybe the child of one (6) 15 A granular fruit (5) 16 Drug ring — fly, but small (5) 17 Endlessly ironically cheers? That's the spirit! (6) 18 None 35 put down? (5) 20 Occupation in mind? 'Um! (6) 22 Throws beer about, money like- wise, all round about (7) 27 Record anarchist's coming to point (7) 30 Plant near to town in India (6) 32 Had row about time a party retired (5) 34 Protein that's fashionable, intro- duced by Pope (6) 36 Is in a measure revolutionary, this yarn (5) 37 State wherein it's initially turned potentially lousy (5) 38 A Muslim has trouble with one following 7A (7) 39 Join up most of 36 in part of 19 6 40 ( Inc) identally, some forfeiture! (3) 41 Could be Gramp hates setback — missing inlaid back of con- traceptive device (11) DOWN 1 Featherlike state — one univer- sal in ducks (10) 2 A Royal initially polled and framed by a legal type (8) 3 17 once docked with a tea-plant 4 Having ving no Assistant Head's in- ability to look after No 1? (12) 5 About time to exhaust a track under part of a river (7) 6 Straddling saddle, get used to horse's neck in bar at Long- champ? (8) 7 False notions one phantom in- troduced (5) 9 Drive very fast for political funds in USA (6) 10 Growth of total account (5) 12 See 21D (6) 19 Discreet about US administra- tion (10) 21 In Siam maybe a 12 lacking your heartless bad blood (9) 23 Told of standard oil output (8) 25 Ruddy one-off state (6) 26 In end gets sick of hemp (7) 28 Maroon often is left by one who does (6) 31 Satisfy once with a penny per pound in 18 (5)

33 Cave — hill-dweller about! (5)

The solution to Crossword 839 is on page 52. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.