CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 18 November. Entries to: Crossword 732, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The title, the unclued ights and those clued otherwise than by definition are of a kind. Ignore five hyphens and two accents; and two apostrophes elsewhere.

Name Address ACROSS 10 Taking an oath without New Testament (4) 14 See 4 (3) 15 A French provincial measure is not verified (8) 17 Single wayward lad after a female (5) 18 In the valley, 16 old minstrels (7) 19 In France, I returned mast and wreckage (6) 22 Unsound rodent up North (6) 24 Out of mind, reasonless (5) 26 'It's a wrinkle,' boasts Michael (9, hyphened) 29 Early settler's point of view (5) 31 Reach running water surround- ing plants (6)

38 Malade Imaginaire's timber-tree (5)

39 New cave rescues lacking rod for breach (8) 40 Advanced Ulster set-back (3) 41 Dogs Republican spies (10, two words) 42 Town emblem (4) 43 Actor having short lines among equals (12, two words) DOWN 2 Ebbing Scottish sea-basin in- cluded in excursion (10) 3 Fledgelings' tags by foot of tree

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4 14 coming up about gold measurement (5)

5 Posh real tuna cooked plainly (9, two words)

6 Roy Lea creased large cravat (6) 7 Coward's verse in book (5) 11 On stage again, behaving loosely (8) 13 Milk suppliers having branches around East Riding after Friday upset (12, two words) 16 Demetrius's old uncle (3) 19 Candlestick's straps (6) 20 Mass taking fibre for thrush

21 C(6)oncert-goer — one who strolls at the seaside (10) 23 River swells to inside gunwales, once (9)

28 Low by small brook and get Scottish cattle disease (7) 30 Woolly coat (top half missing in Channel) (6) 32 Half-despot God (3) 33 Stupid folk said to have saved the Capitol (5) 37 Maple's almost bitter and sour (4) The solution to Crossword 729 is on page 48. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.