CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 19 October. Entries to: Crossword 828, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Three of the lights are hyphened.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Flyers originally trained in North Europe, right? No idea! (14)

8 Long letter (4) 12 Scots love having a fellow in the palm of their hand (4)

14 Aussie outlining Kipling charac- ter's state of arms? (6)

18 Resinous substance, honey, that's without ,come-back (5) 20 Ruin of the French system of weights (7) 21 Foreign clerk holding back 12's a nut (7) 23 Could be Priam got back up in exhausting contrivance (7) 24 Softened thus is without point, as it were (5) 27 Postpone a day abroad by mid- day a day ahead (7) 30 Lousy group - is in bad down under! (7) 32 Declares no river thus produces resinous residues (7) 36 The foreign Top Ten Team back's fibre (5) 37 Spenser's flash frame (5) 38 In general, a Territorial Army soldier (6) 39 Naked Northern female? Fish! (4) 40 Evolvement of tail on a rat used for swimming (10) 42 Flyer having fairy princess de- scribing 4 for the unclued lights? (14) DOWN 1 Rhea's different characters (5) 2 It's hard on the French without having one of theirs for a lancer

3gi)ne's under a half-hour raising lamentable interjections (6)

4 See 42 (5) 5 Chaps first described as founders of colonies (7) 6 Modest object, note (6) 7 In no matter which ecaudate rodent not one initially is lacking distinctive features (9) 9 The cutting short of a short illness (11) 11 Employ some 19 in Town (6) 13 Mineral or metal spring separat- ing opposite sides (7) 15 Toward the middle of Ulster, upcoming sort of resort (8) 19 Holy folk in general are not after a second benedictifie? (8) 21 Supports an Archbishop, in a manner of speaking (9) 26 Giant oil-rig sited in Philistine city (7) 29 Monstrosities of note a turncoat first supported (6) 31 Overlong-fashionable river con- fluence (6) ' 33 Cloth at first placed face up (5) 34 Such 'a noise, but a capital out- come! (5) 35 Egeus's daughter's without one a bust? (5)

The solution to Crossword 825 is on page 45. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.