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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 Iiictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 11 April. Entries to: Crossword 851, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Unscrupulous politician from Morocco taking gipsy girl to ramshackle villa out East (11) 7 A Bond draw (3) 13 Hollows out chimneys (7) 15 They only half place them in Scotland (5) 16 Such language a rustic one (5) 18 God back in Scotstown, US (5) 20 One of 3 sisters the reverse of 3?

21 Around ound Spain a true bird (5) 22 Shakespeare's jailer — one not heartless but unyielding (7) 27 Singing like Jane Elliot's ewe- milking lasses, say (7) 29 Turn-out always to a T (5) 32 Giants of pretension (5) 34 Compound consisting of ura- nium, lithium and mainly air (6) •

36 Scots lament — one of theirs that's the end of me! (5)

37 Not only Richards's song (5) 38 Draws not unlawful in mid-West

(7) 39 Want a new-fashioned T-shirt? Very much so! (6)

41 She haggles, having her chain- letter maybe stuck Inside (11) DOWN 1 Transformations one first en- countered, as in upsets (10) 2 National saint raised in Tuscany interior (8) 3 See 20 (8) 4 Of the advent of sex appeal, one originally thought, in an unreal setting ? (12) 5 A tree, for example (7) 6 To stick books is natural (8) 7 Go round a roundabout (5) 8 Points out a WO (4) 9 Inlaid, possibly American, Pcir- tuguese epic (6) 10 Coming upon a fruit (5) 14 Indocility makes idle news in US (12) 19 Reproduction of, say, Milton's Daughter of Satan's book (10) 21 Farewell points (9) 24 Inclination to conceal misfor- tunes within (8) 26 Rising film star not recast as killer (7) 28 First, books; second, ironically drubs, as it were (6) 31 Hundreds in Chinese currency docked for food (5) 35 Evil sort of swamp (4)