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 solu- tions opened on 16 December. Entries to: Crossword 736, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (two hyphened) have something in common.

Name Address

ACROSS

1 Study ordinary gold vessel in priest's office (13) 8 Leader's self-possession (4) 12 First of pearls in collection for fence (4) 14 Type of bodice for trunk or back (6) 17 Set of concubines with a queen in list (5) 20 Motors and maybe tarries out East around China's capital (7) 23 Shine? General includes heel (7) 24 Henry, far from green, report- edly potted (5) 25 Old poet, they say, died ashen

(5)

27 Deity reduced by obscurity of a philosopher (7) 30 Fool among girl's slaves (7) 32 Bird wheels after insect in Indian areas (7) 36 Sources of light froth around Kent? (5) 37 Nigel misread measure of watch movement (5) 38 Tax month, one before returns (6) 39 Measure parts of elephants (4) 40 Shorthand report, odd sharp note about Gauss (10) 41 Passage, long drawn out recess (4)

DOWN

1 Seek hospital patient outside (5)

2 Proboscis monkey is short of nose (5) 3 Observation — very good — in ale's impaired (6) 5 Monsieur lives in dwelling main- ly erected for Scandinavian (7) 6 Ice-cap's unusual plant (6) 9 Speed-rate in flowing water measured, we hear, and stressed (10) 11 Trowel smashed plate used for thinning wire (6) 13 Number absorbing sun, dry

(7)

15 Game doctor circling Isle (8) 18 Old rascals, old Irishmen, stuf- fed with fish (10) 19 Mass? One to daily, swing the lead? (8) 21 Stir in USA about the French drink (9) 22 Wild men, brutes largely, all together (7, two words) 31 Steamer holds up trade with hard spirits (6) 33 Meat dish for king, .small one, sent up (5) 34 Yawning in love-feast (5) 35 Lakes appear to rise, swollen by river (5) The solution to Crossword 733 is on page 46. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.