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 19 August. Entries to: Crossword 719, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unc ued lights form three triads suggested respectively by the components of ID (three words). The OED gives 350. One Clued light is a proprietory name not in Chambers.

Name Address ACROSS

6 (7Tumours are must for treatment ) 11 Plant to merge, it's said? Check (10, hyphened) 13 Last always, we hear, in effort

16 Nnning is the heartless Performer (7)

17 Nymphs sporting in reeds (7) 19 Friend in addition heard Beatles 9 last bright discs (10) 21 Annual- income from under- 10 the-counter enterprises '(5) 24 A German's aged eyes (4) 12

27 Confectionery left in Aussie's Jumper (4) 14 28 Girl — Heather (5)

30 Former snuff substitute and 20 What it might produce with malt

extract (10) 22 35 Old dissenting worker coming 23 into fortune (7) 36 Challenge to duel a Liberal in 25 Power (7, two words) 37 Cable-post snapped audibly (4) 26

38 Applauding old-time fancy icing, Mary? (9, two words)

39 Pious and evil too, oddly (10) DOWN 1 See preamble 2 Stop clubs and bars (8) 3 Organ obstructed old peep-hole (6) 4 Persian demon with one wild blade may be split (9) 5 Mean types with short hair in steamer (5) 6 Throwing-stick gets bird in SE river (8) 7 Disabled, they say? One shows muscles (5) Reactionaries, senior American citizens? (14, two words) Building extension formerly held by Queen (6) Like certain birds involved with editor (6) Maundy's about money being raised, including penny (6) Bookkeeper's sign? Managed without one (9)

Three-part and high-pitched (6) Trampled on treeless upland path once (8, hyphened) Italian, in his -home-city, has little time for combatant (8) Jabber from one Latin expert?

31 rand new MiG under testing initially in S. Africa (6) i 34 Scrap n outskirts of Alloa — from which blood flows (5) 35 'Twas agony for any injured in PE (5) The solution to Crossword 716 is on page 36, Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service.