CROSSWORD

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 opened on 18 February. Entries to: Crossword 994, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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1/43 and the other unclued lights (one hyphened) have something in common. Use alphabetical priority when entering 11D.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS

6 Leave party dry? She's tipsy (6)

12 Pain and trouble, once, catching a rodent (10, hyphened)

13 Letter from pale Phoenician (5) 16 Rough parts, he insists, in Scot- land (7)

20 Goddess, one US girl (4)

22 A duke interprets fears of old (7)

23 Every belle President ignored (4) 24 The French dupe's cut by quiet banter (7, hyphened) 26 Species of atom, new, perplexed Euclid (7) 30 Clothes matter (4) 31 Relative, odd sire, and old de- pendants (7) 34 Clergyman's caught leaving im- mediately (4)

36 Flexible townsmen drink around (7)

38 If enteron's u set take in protein against virus 10) 39 Like a daughter of Tantalus? No, I confused head (7) 40 Revel, look, without priest (5) DOWN 2 Turn up with Henry on isle, native of Anglesey? (8) 3 Rich taste, but no seconds (5) 4 Glide in, pass audibly (7) 5 Highlander wandering in lanes 6 or instance, yen I had for Mus- lim title (6) 7 One's told to fold knife (6) 8 Ancient paths — eye-sores, re- portedly (5) 9 Card deception (covered by money) dismayed (13, hyphened) 10 Bard in a letter's erratic, shallow and volatile (13, hyphened) 17 Part of sea-view up in Orkney creek (3) 18 Plant with gold stem (5) 21 I catch about 50 in bay (5) 25 Old interpreters baffled realist round North (8)

27 Award for type of cow (3)

28 English club holds appeal for retired professors (7) 29 Heat as before? Maybe coal stack's reduced (7) 32 Diamond snatch? In cooler! (6, hyphened) 33 Service — drink — shots in quick rounds (6) 35 Diminutive girl, we hear, such as produces cordial (5) 37 Pair of horses skirting a wood (5)