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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 (please, no photocopies) opened on 14 October. Entries to: Crossword 1028, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (which have something in common, individually and also as pairs) and one clued place-name are not in Chambers. Ignore an accent.

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ACROSS 5 Tree set on fire by gypsywoman

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compare articles, records about one saint (10) 14 Love is left at home reflecting

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16 Good, monkey's in dwarf tree (6) 18 Coal-dust, black in valley (5) 20 Erudite poet, Sherrin? (7) 22 Shade off, meat, in Yorkshire town (7) 24 Scold floating voter . . . (7) 25 . . . namely, bloody old sod! (5) 33 Kind to starve, fast, shedding pound (7) 36 King's orb from old fence (5) 38 Such as turns, going to and fro

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39 Veneration accorded to God in Latin apartments (6) 40 Fish that is seen about mouth of Dee (3) 41 Know-all may get smack later (10, two words) DOWN 1 Particle from the doctor in cure- all? Come, that's ridiculous (13) 2 Girl, one with clubs in New York (5) 3 Spot chief Semitic god (6) 4 Wanton, old at 50, in gutter (5) 6 One in case precludes evidence of pressure (7) 7 Here's one with avarice, say, in company? (6) 11 EEC involved with rotten beef- steak (9) 12 Can a standstill result from this? (13, two words) 19 Queen aboard ship's making headlines (9) 21 Blackberries, perhaps, eater munched up with cries of joy (8) 23 HM has money for commissions

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27 Bible translator — in 'Vinegar' he mistranslated (7) 29 Its bite calls for doc: a wound's raised (6) 30 Give utmost cry of pain (6) 32 Dialect is racy, crude (6) 34 Trap rolled up in Essex? (5)

35 Regard old ram biting ewe's tail (5)