CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 16 June. Entries to: Crossword 760, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1 2LL.

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Solut'ons to 16 of the clues are words which, when treated in a particular way, provide other otherwise unclued words (one hyphened and one not mentioned in Chambers) which form the relevant lights. Of the normal lights, one is of two words, one is hyphened and one accented. Bracketed numbers refer to solutions Name Address ACROSS

1 Person with name in Union (4) 5 Outdated gossip about Unionist worker (4)

9 Passion in time is nothing to a chap with one (10) 14 Old charter requiring return of horse (3) 16 Raised colours (4) 17 Town in Ulster in part of 3 (5) 18 Coarse food (3) 20 Entails change of health (7) 22 Are in studies for fellows (5) 24 A coarse painter, Smith! (7) 25 A chance breeze (5) 26 Out of condition rumour (5) 28 Communist type of act, ambi- tious but a flop (7) 31 Varsity men or UN able- seamen? (7) 33 Drug simple soldier absorbed (7) 37 Timid girl in bed (5) 38 Spenser's fierce fish, say (5) 39 Reprove a robber? (6) 40 Meagre jest (3) 41 Knave or Prince about ex- hausted? Nothing in that! (10) 42 Escapes beats (4) 43 Foreign penny-piece (4) DOWN 1 Peerlesspoem by RC — an ode, perhaps (13) 2 Was death by witchcraft not half the very thing? (4) 3 Discharge from island accepted below lake (6)

4 Was not once of dynastic signifi- cance (3)

6 Modest capital (a grand initially) received by charity for animals

(7)

7 Whole point, burning out (6) 8 Was not a record growth (4)

10 Sabbath run-up the French cher- ish (6)

11 Number One goddess put out about to quit? (6) 12 Stale news coming round tires me out (13)

13 Wood erected about a funda- mental orifice (4)

15 Bill's girl (4) 19 Rob being Scottish is one in a dream abroad (5)

21 Marks aimed at in a river (4) 23 Marketing mistakes also hidden. (7)

27 Tune — one for one of the media (7) 29 Preserves lavatories (4) 30 A false tale about a fairy queen 32 Bowled peer out? Swindle! (6)

34 Endless noise in place of enter- tainment (5)

35 Timid topless lamplighter (5) 36 Age initially against her? (4)

The solution to Crossword 757 is on page 50 Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.