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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 opened on 18 June. Entries to: Crossword 961, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind. Collins confirms the plural at 24, and Brewer confirms 20 and 34.

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

1 Root disturbed during game is the same whatever direction (8)

11 Hotel staff showing evils about strong drink (12, hyphened) 12 Severely reprimanded about transfer (5) 14 Gang rejecting cross composer (7) 16 Extract from 'Surrey Observer' backing assize (4) 17 Damaged petal or scale on fern- leaf (5) 18 Shakespearian kinsmen and just one English society (6) 22 Cartoon character showing love for tom-cat in time (8, two words) 23 Mariner breaking left-hand when riding (7, hyphened) 24 Mouldings which project eccen- trically, at first — about one inch 25 us's final modest rate of travel? 27

Cuts off the top bees had dam- aged (7)

29 'Ether' — tune for sopranos? (8, two words) 33 Commonplace reference to you around middle of March(6) 34 Dryden's Speaker and French girl-friend left (5) 35 Hasten to the women's quarters, mostly (4) 37 Pygmy In Roget, oddly (7) 39 Upright chap pines for rebuild- ing of postern (12, two words) 40 No running water; coming back for an eternity (4) 41 Again chooses Leicester, strangely without issue, initially (8, hyphened) DOWN 1 He's a worker, not a cowboy (6) 2 Shakespeare's descendant is six- teen, outwardly (4) 4 He resists work problem (7) 6 Charge for keeping gold in the theatre (7) 8 The dairy's best? (5) 9 Workers on strike, it seems, for whom 'Satan finds mischief' (9, two words) 10 Old cheat, by the way (6) 15 Judge's decision affecting King George guinea and three pounds (11, two words) 19 Rock-guano having dark and gloomy ceremonial (10) 20 Hercules' wife from island off Africa, without mother and without Scotsman (8) 26 He is sailing around 'The Cray' 7) 30 alf the guests having to wander in to war in France (6) 31 Missiles not specified for large sheep (6) 32 Wader with some other ones in a sedge (5) 36 Stagger — half-drunk in Aber- deen (4)