1023: 7—Up

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 September. Entries to: Crossword 1023, The Spectator 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 The oddness which e represents (12)

10 Crater active during short month

12 Works rks together, bringing music into homes (10, hyphened)

14 Force six — start of storm (3) 17 The rights of headless strangers (5)

19 Paddy with drink and violin (6) 22 Small dwelling with fashion- fabric (6) 24 Dance without a servant (5) 27 Become champion with name inscribed on coloured backing (9, three words) 29 Prepare for death: some mortician-elegist needed (5) 31 A non-cleric caught in verse- form (6) 34 Hoffman's film-role, we hear - one of 'The Little Piggies'? (6) 38 Chips for father. That is a shill- ing (5) 40 Port or half the wine (3) 41 Short works about tsetse swall-

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g young hawk, backwards (1 42 One we backed again (4) 43 Altrincham's a source of quack- ery (12) DOWN

3 Metal in Ireland brought up for basic salt (7)

4 Brimless hat right away from necklace (5) 5 Like Upper Rhine dialects, hav- ing peculiar charm on us (9) 6 M. Curie developing element (6) 7 Girl entering Britain; a terrorist upset (5) 8 Tissue returned by 24, in part (4) 9 Rare example of luggage left on its own (12, two words) 13 He skimps work transposing clepsydra around church (12, hyphened) lb Widow's stipend for girl (3) 19 Work during the start of term; that's Hell (6) 20 Topless company, inwardly poorly (not well) (6) 21 Small creatures died, in ten pieces, maybe (10) 23 Etching on copper with one country house round a sort of square (9) 25 Freedom with monarch leaving,' pouring out the drink (8) 28 Look upset in a tin of mites! (7) 30 South African coming round in straw hat (6) 32 Grassland of Middle America 33 God just since Mohammed's flight? (5) 35 Taking dessert (5) 37 Leaders of Alliance Party sug- gest early recess (4)