CROSSWORD
A first prize of L20 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 10 February. Entries to: Crossword 1043, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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44 The unclued lights (including four plurals and one shortened name) have something in common. Their barred letters form the anagram DO STATE DAVE'S BEST FEATS. Ignore an accent.
Name Address ACROSS 4 Falsifies credit for nothing (11)
11 Dissolute roué, sly, deceptive (7)
12 A hundred high points for play- ers (6) 14 Princess competed with Eastern double (5) 16 Red is one, possibly (5) 21 By law, you need a set of mi- nutes (4) 23 Port in East is acid base (7) 24 Bird in 'dainty dish', first of 'twenty-four' (4) 25 Is entering Lincolnshire town very awkward? (7) 30 People refusing trifles (7) 31 Silk cut for Indian widow (4)
32 Alkaloid from amadou, a BA insisted (7)
34 Flower's costs (4) 37 Ten knocked back dry wine (5) 40 Berg's in Britain (5) 41 Plant pots crone shattered (9) 43 Wet tub, with graphite (7) 44 House-protectors, lighter on stage (11, hyphened) DOWN 1 Considered clamping ankle- bones, weakened (11) 2 Shiner, perhaps, makes for fierce look? (6) 5 Greek character from 6? (4) 6 Filch from 5? (4) 7 Thin tailless lion rampant? Fat
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9 ne decision oddly expressed in Greek (9) 17 Beast with brown short hair (7, hyphened) 18 Overturning teapots, char's splattered about (11) 20 He delivers old things — and prompt, right? (7)
22 Polish steam vat up in plant (9) 27 Philosopher eating chop, a bone (7)
28 Academic lady cheated, pin- ching foreign currency (7)
29 Censor about to check moulding i-71) 33 aving swellings? Medicine's unavailable, apparently (6) 36 Unruly riot over one temple gate (5)
38 Line curled up in knot (4)
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