CROSSWORD 852: Capitall by Doc

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 18 April. Entries to: Crossword 852, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights and those clued otherwise than by definition are of a kind. One is of three words, another is hyphened and both have an apostrophe. Elsewhere ignore two accents.

Name Address ACROSS

11 Cake or currant bread (7) 12 Read of change (6)

14 Large quantity — of paper? (5) 16 Cetyl alcohol is almost deadly (5) 19 Sort of verbose remark (7) 21 Stare at headless spectre (4) 23 What grows underground might give him zero (7), 24 Back-country lake (4) 25 Catches some French wines (7) 30 Investigations about English and Scottish ring-doves (7) 31 Glacial snow sending back 40 or 17 in part (4) 32 Size of paper for a Penguin (7) 34 Perhaps eight triumphed? (4) 35 Turkish chief coming round to censure traditional utterances

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7 Bottle of milk yielding skin disease (5) 40 Fall quiet (5) 42 Cloth bag rejected (6) 43 Creature in pond having mottled pale dot (7) 44 Leader of fashion having time to return round home (11) DOWN

1 Hiding away, sailors get caught once round haunt of vice (1?)

2 Crooks corner heartless unruly mobs (6) 3 Offices for goddesses (5) 5 Adult young again (4) 6 Skinflint's interminable payment (4) r 8 Pre-arranged region lifting

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9 Rush for commercial on mari- juana (9, hyphened) 10 Queen Mother's first up-river for old fur (7) 15 Pillow-case and tip of blanket (5) 20 Nutritional substance — half a dozen having the stuff (7) 27 Scottish landlord distributing their gold (7) 28 Railed over discharge (7) 29 One narrow band round one mineral (7) 33 Country clubs in gum (6) 36 For measuring strength of spirit (5) 38 Dead plain (4) 39 Resort to some trickery, deliber- ately (4) The solution to Crossword 849 is on page 44.

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