CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will he awarded for the first three correct solu- tions opened on 11 November. Entries to: Crossword 731, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each of the unnumbered clues (which are in random order) defines or suggests two words which have a particular affinity and which form two of the otherwise unclued lights. One clued light has the OED's (not Chambers') spelling. Ignore two hyphens.

Name Address CLUES Habitual jar Submit to the gallows Coarse fish Outspokenly narrow Evil old servant Power to delay action Prevailed? Dropped!

1A Flying type gets ready to shoot standard line (11) 1D Bell-shaped bloomers, right? (10) 2 Burner's m-maker goes with- out (8) 3 Very reticent in privy that's without centre of gravity (9) 4 A worker getting on one turned in an American coin (12) 6 Debates fiddles? That's about right! (8) 11 A foreign speculator free from one type of restriction (6) 12 Taxonomic group in favour of drink (6) 13 Once a monkey and nothing more, man! (7) 14 Brook, over-elevated, some- how sort of rose (12) 15 Tree-food containing merely a scrap of nourishment (5) 17 Archaic dwarfish types on the way South (6) 19 One practitioner's a number in for millenarians (10)

20 In esse, first and last a watery gaseous hydrocarbon (6) 21A Tipsy upstart, in drag (5) 21D One strolling in, out East,

bearing a Turner reproduction

(9) 22 Nothing pious in U-turn re- jecting primitive element of

idealistic significance (7) 23 After an eccentric means of communication (8) 26 Goddess, behold, embraced by a small boy (7) 27 Fiduciary set-off within? Right! (7) 28 See 41 (6) 29 Plant a brownie in one (5) 30 Almost had Heather dragging (6) 32 Unto Scots wearing sesame?

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She's some bird! (5)

36 A grim environment for an Arab encampment (5) 37 Haul round Norway s capital man-of-war (5) 38 Scolds a monarch having a spell in power (7)

40 She's always loud to start with (3)

41 Is, in short, 28 in retreat (with- out returning to go out with Society misses) (11) The solution to Crossword 728 is on page 54. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.