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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 19 May. Entries to: Crossword 756, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1 2LL.
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Chambers (1983 edition) lists or refers to all lights. Twenty-two derive from normal clues; eleven others from non-clues (to be spotted by solvers). The remaining eleven lights (of a kind) are unclued; four are phrases, and two plurals are used.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Breaks strike appearing retrog- rade (5) 4 Wash-stand set up with hollow for vessel (9, hyphened) 11 Prepare a series in rare drag (5) 14 Drier, prepared fibres of hemp, the foreign kind (5) 15 Purloins 500 purlins (5) 16 Turner, painter, finally depicts agitated state (6) 24 Are these records logs? (4) 25 Small drink for fool after time 27 Stillness required in a sitter, maybe (7) 28 A calf s deformed near spread grass, bent like a sickle (8) 33 Egg-and-bacon gone, embrace work (6) 34 Rig for a bride, a lacy bit of fabric (5) 35 Barmy elaborate dresser (5) 37 Fleshy fish, food fish, one con- sumed (7) 38 Tablets: take with potions (5) 40 Skirt with time found in ginnel (9, hyphened) 41 Voice responses, following priest (5) DOWN 2 Well-adjusted girl on left (6) 4 Staffordshire pot, say, ornate saucer (6) 6 Probes supporters about extrem- ity in game (7) 7 Maple, black and bitter (5) 8 Silence stupid American head (8) 10 Food buffs, pros, struggling with shortages (13) 13 Most outlying areas retain old customs (7) 15 Prepare to turn inverted pins (6) 17 Exercises valued up around border (6)
18 Parasol idiot's put up in rain (6)
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20 Killing time? Sailor's swinging lead 16) 30 Simple? As easy as pie, in other words (6)
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32 Bones reportedly fire artist (8). 36 Giant's Causeway's ending in peaty tract (4)
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