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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 opened on 19 March. Entries to: Crossword 948, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL. •

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Each of four unclued lights, when added to a c ued one, illustrates the theme suggested by the title, as does getting a fifth unclued light and a sixth one on its own. One other light is hyphened.

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4 Moans about take for grub (9) 9 In America a rare allowance for a former soldier? (10)

11 A very loud manner, this thing! (6) 12 Boarding in paltry temporary accommodation for athletes (7) 14 Protein source of brain damage

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15 Existed without much less by half in Cardigan (5) 16 Injury caused by retarded up- start in a place of trade (6) 22 Slug not unknown to come in to wash, note (8) 23 In one side or the other in the Capacity of 'the big fish' (7) 24 The substance, of a soldier's let- ter of credit (4) 25 A .wader is initially in the same place (4) 29 Protein as a rule upset one (8) 32 Fool about with a bird to claim as one's own (6) 34 A whit like Spanish dances (5) 35 To grasp or apprehend (5) 36 To do with dreams about one's figure in fine old style (7)

37 In re an =clued light's S African flower (6)

38 Not meant to finish without being tuned in, perhaps (10) 39 Maybe a gutsy man's complaint 40 irty wine out East (5) DOWN 1 Earth-shattering collapse, cause of the deepest sorrow (10) 2 Try to be at hand (5) 3 Representation of a girl out of touch (6) 5 Trying to penetrate twice in an obscure surrounding (7)

6 Tissues, back East, a hindrance? (5) 7 In age, I end up serpent-footed! (9)

8 Serves, as it were, in raising 'The Ocean King' (4) 10 Warbling without aspiration to become sensational (9) 17 Chinese capital, say — fashion- able stake out for one of mixed race (9) 18 Beetles about city in South of France (7)

19 Drive crazy about blunt Shakespearian controversy (10)

20 Tax a bird about many a one (9) 21 Leaves out Republican Leader's Whips (6) 26 Thus behaving like a drug addict is dashing (7) 28 Fearsome women in a state in a Belgian town (7) 30 A King's one over a State (6) 31 Good chap with it, not initially in it (5) 33 Strut for a kind of wig (5)