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 16 September. Entries to: Crossword 723, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Half the solutions which are odd, are not; the other half, which are not, are. Two of the solutions to be entered are of two words and two others, are hyphened.

Name Address ACROSS DOWN 11 Macs cravat's excessive design 12 13 I've stolen various gimmicky 14 Lands winning serves around 16 Smelt subsided. About time! (5) 4 Site Ireland developed to be occupied by houses (11)

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Stay and put mother in check (6) mementos (9) Wilander's foot (5) 2 Cask-stop (6) 19 Rate per 100, arranging 10 in network (7) box (7) 21 Militiamen's outward look (4) grounds (9) 23 Lochart turned like a wheel (7) 24 Some villa tenant departed (4) Sabbath (7) 25 Shoots husbands? (7) 31 Emblem boat brought back (4) 32 Lounge where nuts are cracked 20 Screens tricksters (7)

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( 34 Sound of murderer's beer supplies (9) walking-stick (4) 26 Spikes can with points (5) 37 Range of the Chilean desert (5) 40 Resort traffic (5) this (7) 41 Fabulous creature making 29 Specious tableaux (7) prophetic tangle (9) 42 Happens to have caught cold in placed here? (6) ours (6) 43 Be a good fellow! Servant and one (5) groom! (7) 38 River trial (4) 44 Rash rush (11) 3 County of French and German

6 Glut of eggs at Eastertime (4).

7 Topless girl and gypsy gill 5 Complaints — one's about 8 The French race reserve 1 Plants from moon acolyte (11) origin (5) students (4) making refutations (7) 9 Flies' raid arranged for landing 10 Withholds heartless letter during 15 Scots aim, taking top off boiler pieces (7) 18 Novel young felloW let out (11 22 Underlying principle to restrict 27 An alternative to the acre (7) 33 On the spot transactions always 36 They're very small: cat's after 39 Unless Tunisian lord left (4) The solution to Crossword 720 is on page 37.

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