CROSSWORD

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 opened on 12 November. Entries to: Crossword 982, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (four of two words, two of which include an abbreviation) are suspect and can be divided into three different triads. Elsewhere ignore one accent.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Approaches sailors around ring- road (6) 5 Attachments to optical instru- ments from Leicester, losing note (8) 10 Descriptive of an attractive blonde coming as an unexpected surprise (14, three words) 11 Millet put back in Punjabi gar- dens (6) 13 Brit down-under with champion crushed apples (6) 16 One prisoner embracing new grass (5) 17 & 35 Quixotic wild ranter (6) 19 Monkeys in town trailing around

20 P(9 arty supplier from New Terrace 2 24Glistening attire from chap in money (5)

25 Goodbye notice: 10/- (5) 27 Rule trio out in the future (8) 30 Beware! Tip-off's taken in pris- oner (7) 33 Boundary around cricket ground including Gower's final motto (9, two words) 35 See 17 (3) 37 The heart of produced water- crowfoot (5) 38 Backing US city and Italy's own capital: that's unethical () 41 Give strength to singer collaps- ing during mid-week (8) 42 Sea-nymph that stretched from Mexico to the Mediterranean (6) DOWN 1 Caught in a non-professional verse-form (6) 3 Edible pods round Channel Is- land upset (5) 6 Settle abroad, without note, in chieftain's state (7) 7 Contours around South Helios, maybe (7) 8 Maid-servant upset about run- ning water for unploughed land (6, hyphened) 9 Winter pastime of baiting the batsman (8) 12 Could be 29 with jaundice (6) 21 Dig up a hunter in trouble (7) 22 Landing at reduced speed? (S) 26 Country girl originally without a name — one of the Gibbons (7) 28 Bart's heraldic animals (7) 29 Number of small charges — ab- out ten — for bird (6) 31 Catchword causes a strain, one hears (6) 32 Improves English manuscript including conclusion (6) 34 Lassie — a high-flier (5) 36 Spell 'rhythm' (4)