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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 for the first three correct solutions opened on 19 December. Entries to: Crossword 887, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Seven across lights and seven down ones are of a kind and are clued without overall definition. Four normal lights are usually hyphened. (With acknowledgments to 'Soapy', Weymouth.)

Name Address ACROSS

1 Sleepy-head's comb (8)

5 Get two identical notes in one bundle (6) 9 Super scribes, say, but each too prolific? (10) 14 Fresh artificial language (3) 16 Possibly vile condition (6) 17 A bit of a job albeit originally cushy (5) 18 In grief or affliction is initially

20 Eye parts(5) of network a girl

appears in (7) 22 A whale of a rabbiter (7) 24 He is a bit of a twit for a start (7) 25 What one has to pay, having taken one to heart (5)

16 A skilled profession or trade in Paraguay (5)

28 Call for a letter index (7) 31 Relish a pest on a boat (7) 33 Once down the length of a far from short street (7) 37 Upstart a French Nobel Prize- winning novelist described (5) 38 Bitterness back in the women's quarters (5) 39 Bard's complaint an abstainer's spread around (6) 40 Somewhat odd sort of strobe effect (3) 41 Put new life into an old professor — and new heart? About time! (10) 42 Somewhat peculiar sort of food to follow a retrograde celebra- tion (6) 43 Not ranked as out of range — dud! (8) DOWN 1 They grow to comprehend de- ceptive tricks (13) 2 Add up points in lists (5) 3 Not even 25 cents? Paltry! (6) 4 Expire before time? (5) 6 Hermit-crabby with sin? (7) 7 A tree in a glade without a mill-stream (6) 8 To be sustainable in law it has inner force (4) 10 Her pot o'er-tum'd in Hamlet? (6) 11 Maybe Louis IX, say, initially god of the sun and moon? (9) 12 Abnormally large order the hip- py misplaced (13)

13 Copper bucket by the bed? (8) 15 One's grandchild upset ID in the end (7)

19 A coot a goddess in Oman? (9) 21 Bond once in fix? To a T! (8) 23 Abroad, is beyond right (7) 27 Pedlars of gin? Huntsmen! (7) 29 Marking zero hour missed (6) 30 Was foolish once concealing its end (6) 32 A doctor wearing a child's apron in the States (6) 34 Oddly named P R types (5) 35 Faulty roundabout? (5) 36 Of the older men, one without energy (4) The solution to Crossword 884 is on page 60. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.