CROSSWORD 928: Not half in a state by Jac

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 16 October. Entries to: Crossword 928, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The word (or, in one case, words) forming the answer to an asterisked clue consists of the number of 'abbreviated' American States indicated by the bracketed number after the clue; all such clues are overall definitions and no such State is duplicated. The OED gives 2 & 16, the Oxford Atlas 9 and Chambers refers to 13 under its adjective. Ignore five hyphens and an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Unit not initially engaged in creation of world peace (11) 7 Such chase'thus (3) 11 Element unsubstantial and slimy (6)

13 * St. David's (3)

15 Marmot (or goat) without a soul

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16 Pour in once still at home (5) 17 Waste, backing 4's whip-round! (6) 18 Jack's anchor (5) 20 In it, body design was a figura- tive reproduction (6) 21 Walk abroad or dance and game 22 ut out of fashion (4) 27 Marked as uncooled (7) 29 Sort of water-bird (5) 30 Ram joining nag in canter (6) 32 * Cracked (2) 34 See 4 (6) 36 Backing for splinter group of creepers (5) 37 Where to live in a backward country? (5) 38 * Shellfish (3)

39 A sort of turn out East that was a sort of risk (6)

40 Nothing about for Spenser to give over (3) 41 Giddy lad, little Edward height upset his innards! (11) DOWN 1 Issued records about Homer's mounted troops (10)

2 Old Assyrian name fashionable to avoid (8)

3 Maybe a novel lot — so very odd! (9) 4 Perhaps 34, Am61ie's heavenly albeit tiny body (12) 5 * Drinks here could be a 28 (3) 6 Such tenure a worry? It could be! (8) 7 The Black Beast? (5) 8 * Silly (2)

9 Man had a game here abroad (6)

10 Fruit a satyr raised (5) 12 Fish a girl out of a river (6) 14 Rope of a sort suited to a T having light end hidden (12) 19 101 of the French about to stop former grant (10) 21 The irritability of coppers, the usual lies advanced initially being accepted (9) 23 * Sick (4) 24 * Lizard (4) 25 Iron ring possibly left out? Right! (6) 26 Creating path over heather (7) 28 See 5 (6) 31 Father literally's a beast (5) 33 Lost without a navigational aid

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35 Was lower (2)