CROSSWORD 836: Side-line by Jac

A first prize of E20 and two further prizes of 110 (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 14 December. Entries to: Crossword 836, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights have something in common with the lights clued without overall definition. Two normal lights are hyphened.

Name Address ACROSS

7 Drink like a fish (3)

11 Scots gossip about Their Majes- ties' bleaching vat (6) 15 Class of '37 (5)

16 Assume it's over all the way out (5)

17 Spots cat swapping 39 books for £1 (6)

18 Fruit-cake ingredients out East (5)

21 About to accustom oneself to advantage (5) 22 Little beast's turn to remain in support (7) 27 Not a word from the Psychic Doctor! (7) 29 Brood about it being gay (5) 30 See 9 (6) 32 Revolutionary number? Revolu- tionary number! (5) 34 Tomboy's play-time garb (6) 37 By leave (5) 38 Take a look at 24! (7) 39 Peg's turn to dig out . . . (6) 40 . . some clover, sweetpea and bitter vetch (3) 41 Inferior type of traders, once, in a way (11) DOWN 1 Numbers maybe point North in SE or north of the Thames (10) 2 A mid-wicket counter-out of fish (8) 3 A communist, sick at heart, hav- ing cover of a sort (9) 4 Prospectors in rows about mar- tens (12) 5 Stone-colour. . . (7) 6 . . . rail network for towing (8) 9 Dealer giving 30 King or Queen after discarding Ace (6) 10 Is not half lofty (5) 12 Local rate once under a sovereign and a quarter (6) 14 The setting aside of a wizard get-together (12) 19 One entering into things without being clear of charges is an operator who has lost his head (10) 23 Bless Miss Durbeyfield — or could be Martha or Margaret, say? (8) 24 Stir rips up for her in 38 (8) 25 Tiptop fish, but altogether sick- ening! (6) 26 Regular soon confined by con- stabulary head in charge (7) 28 Honour many a Republican with it (6) 31 Remains of a king without hon- our (5) 33 'Fallen Angel' is backed a pound a point at the start (5) The solution to Crossword 833 is on page 58. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.