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A.first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 14 April. Entries to: Crossword 751, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The solutions to the unnumbered clues (which are in random order and omit overall definitions) are of a kind and suggest certain nouns (one hyphened) which are to be entered as the relevant !lights. The combined solutions/lights are also of a kind. Numbers in parentheses after clues relate to solutions and not necessarily lights. Ignore a hyphen elsewhere.

Name Address CLUES Are deficient in part (3) Exist out of element (4) Instrument bowled over (5) Vitamin deficiency (5) Soft-hearted dealer (6) Circulating stale info (6) Bunter might if hurt (6) Liver's upset (6) Dart into bed (8) 1A Lake no initially great loss to us animals (13) 2 Rustic lavatory part (5) 3 Dissenter's midnoon state (6) 4 Weight of note to hurry up (5) 6 Christian one's about to mar- ry (6) 7 In peace is somehow used for a sympodium (9) 8 Nothing in zero return for old coin (4) 9 Quote Lenin oddly lost for words (10) 10 Outnumbers what marquesses are (10) 11 Stir, about to steal (6) 12 Ovens that are a curse (4) 13 Picks a Pole picks (7) 14 A little 1A tree-plant (6) 16 Borne in a Czech's heart- vessel (5) 17 Let Left off being relieved (5) 18 Florid resident alien embrac- ing a form of Islam (10) 19 Page upset it in cameo of exquisite composition (8) 20 A coloured exterior? That's bad! (7) 22 One is in check? Irony! (7) 24 Arrange a fresh number by Whistler, say (5)

25 Grass-containing male depila- tory (5)

26 Covering every State in America (7) 27 Drink in market-place in interval (7) 28 Impressionist pair of kings, one doubled up inside (6) 29 Take in a bit and make it stick (6) 30 Is worthy of office among similar awards (7) 31 Bristle up, clothed in it (6) 32 Missiles a couple of thousands less in conjunction (7) 33 Disrobe a foreign wanton (5) 34 Lassie a high-flier? (5) 36 Harlots, these birds (5) 37 Plant tucked in anew? (5) 39 Steal a dollar piece (4) 40 Coat with braid that French king assumed (10) 42 Goes back in theory to cen- sure the woman scientist (13)