CROSSWORD

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 11 May. Entries to: Crossword 805, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Fish one's caught in company (5) 6 Start of honeymoon: May and Len puzzled about her mem- brane (7) 11 Noisily walk right in it. 0! That will do (10) 13 Descriptive of a phylum of ten marine characters (9) 15 Opening payment (4) 17 Money sent back by lake night club (7) 18 Sir's unending cry (3) 19 Four Pernod mixed, like weak alcohol (10) 21 Point out married head (5) 27 Sphere of action omitting North- ern region (4) 28 Letter from North? (5) 30 Heap of straw left out for untidy person (10, hyphened) 33 Scots boy, about five, would become Russian (3) 35 Slattern's outrageous parties (7) 36 Love is a rover: here are the fruits (7) 37 Border from fabric with no answer (4) 38 Rest disturbed by hood that's floating with the current (9, hyphened) 39 Artistic revival involving cane- screen (10) 40 Wreck spades by lone miner (7) 41 About 1.10, maybe (5) DOWN 1 See preamble (14, two words) 2 Outstanding back-pay is late (8) 3 Notch found on salmon's tail in basket (6) 4 Anti-trade affected loss of civil rights (9) 6 Competes in preliminary race: it's most important (8) 7 Mass's girl having one (5) 9 Investor's penalty — apathy (14, three words) 10 Endless desert sheep (6) 12 Rather a lot over (6, two words) 14 Old battle-axe having square component on top of hilt (6) 20 Revive posh car in 29 (9) 23 Nameless subaltern breaking pil- lar (8) 29 See 20 (6) 31 Decree disheartened stoker (6) 32 Hebridean isle's cotton-grass (5) 34 Charge US soldiers in Central States (5) 35 Salts around northern lakes (5) with not one

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