CROSSWORD

1053: Singing their praises by Doc

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 21 April. Entries to: Crossword 1053, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights and those clued without overall definition are (individually or as pairs or a trio) of a kind. Three of these lights are of two words.

Name Address

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ACROSS

8 Feeling about volume that's charged (7)

10 Cherry root by lake. Look! (7) 13 Fairly recent wines arranged by hand, initially (6) 15 Ancestor grasped the girl, as the Cockney says (5) 16 Payment in amateur entertain- ment (4) 19 Best work it back. Quiet! (7) 20 Disbeliever in armed hold-up (7) 22 0/c cattle making silver first, then gold (7) 23 Workshops losing ten bosses (5) 24 Ebbing river enshrining black metallic oxide (5) 26 Unpredictable and wayward Cartier (7)

29 Round bone from broken nape and neck, lacking carbon (7, hyphened)

30 Eastern 37 confused about Ulster (7) 34 Semi-private stately building (4) 35 Grave poem, say, in cathedral city (5) 36 Deserted Dickensian menial (6) 38 Intellectual — a mine of strength formerly (7) 39 Attacks on besiegers by South- ern Confederates (7) DOWN

1 Some immature behaviour com- ing up! (5)

2 Lawless backwoodsman's money once (5) 3 Concentration revealed by re- moving tip from Cordyline (5) 4 A French swell with time to force out of Parliament (6) 5 He killed his mother and grand- children in Scotland without sup- port (7) 6 Plant found in canal is marram (6) 9 Half-caste girl on the bed around ntid-July (10)

10 Shrub hiding wild ox in a mo- ment (6)

12 Locked up course (7) 14 A bit rank (8) 17 Court hearing prison dispute

18 (1Re0a)cling out about Latin (8)

25 A light drink around the `Nag's Head' for cloth inspector (7) 27 Mark the register (6) 28 Trouble in Glasgow about a hug and kiss. Not half! (6) 29 Fermented mare's milk upset- ting British girl (6) 33 Unconventional college ser- vants' yard (5)