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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 Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 13 April. Entries to: Crossword 801, The SPertator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The solution to each odd-numbered down clue is an 11-letter word Part only of which forms the relevant light.

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Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 4 Horse-doctor's gas about a one's nerves radioactive element 8 Scots attempt to invent 11 First on, starting with a p-push-13 Fill with dismay key 15 Open 12 Cheerful fellow's flower 17 Assenting 14 Suppress return of magistrate 18 Still in former outfit 15 Suited to a T, a Frenchman — 19 Treacherous 22 Gum, by gum!, Alice chewed space? 23 A thousand less men enlisted 21 Spore-bearing filament capable of defence 26 Judge a performance 25 The haulage contractors' lobby? anyone without right 27 Can't see one having no brood? 30 Saunter initially studying fish 29 Walks faster than Coe? Apt US 31 Rudimentary fabrication! 33 Wander 32 Managed without a double-time 34 Assumes upset set in order beat 35 Socially acceptable mode adapted for theatre 36 In intellect one thousand and one appear excessive 37 Circling one tree described by graduates mirrored as another 38 Building for storing main com- modity in northern part of De- von 39 Punishment? 21!

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3 Disjunctive 4 Transfers the foreign earnest- money 5 Co-existence in one of differing attitudes towards same object 6 Youth's sex-appeal in reverse — ebbing and flowing! 9 Dramatic height of a stoppage 10 Crustacean appendage originally introduced by a spiteful woman seen partly immersed in Water such a brick! 20 Not such as Cowper's philolog-