CROSSWORD

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 (please, no photocopies) opened on 19 August. Entries to: Crossword 1020, The Spectator 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 6 Feast cooking one bird (6) 12 A mule-train somehow not com- posed of matter (10) 13 Man with skill and spirit (5) 14 Workman with piano and furni- ture stored away (7) 16 Society set aside Italian (7)

20 18 unpaid accounts, in part (4)

22 Leader likely seen in tnbute(7) 23 Scots left-over gold by artist (4) 24 Work-places of tipsy servant?

30 (7 Ac) cordingly shut out (4) 31 Backing former President, with time to withdraw (7) 34 Ditch of two hectares (4, hyphened) 36 Blots out some French steel re- view (7) 39 Rash fellow turning up, short (7) 40 Monkey in iron structure (5) 42 French city getting the bird, it's said (6) 43 Beginner is returning to Tyne- side for amino-acid (8) DOWN

2 Redeveloping earliest work- shops (8)

3 Question followed Scriptures in Arabic (5) 4 Timeless French Academician is wicked (7) 5 Tear out design for clothing (7) 6 Leapt around ring in game (6)

8 Having a smell of school, entire- ly (5)

9 Hospital worker out in USSR, resting (13, two words)

10 Descriptive scientist and mas- seur with note to censure that woman (13)

17 Vegetable brought back in 38 (3) 18 See 20 (5) 21 See 28 (5) 25 An MP, sure about dominating chap (8) 27 Goddess in the Orient (3) 28 Soviet troops making 21 changes in railway (7, two words) 29 Ibsen heroine in creditor's clutches. Hard cheese (7) 32 Discuss moderation (6) 33 Stains fascinators (6)

35 She wept, upset because of award (5) 37 Welshman right among terrapins (5)