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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 20 July. Entries to: Crossword 815, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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In Mass's 100th puzzle the unc ued lights comprise four theme- words and a d'fferent pair related to each. These lights include a plural, a disregarded hyphen and a name in Brewer.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Blooming cheeky! (5)

9 Low growth in foreign articles given brush off (10)

11 Scorn old vice rings of French kind (5) 12 Ruin motor container? (7) 16 Register onset of appendicitis in guts (6) 21 Excessive drinker imbibing sack, like 2, 24, 25 and 30 (8) 22 Unruly Arab hit Indian (7) 27 North has trick in game, as of yore (7, hyphened) 2S Ace heroin? Inferior (8, hyphened) 33 A Tory's tracts (6) 34 Deity requiring worship round East (5)

37 Preserves English MS, including Lamb's revision (7)

38 Rock, Elvis's ultimate sound (5) 39 Steel prop (10) 41 Tenderloin well stuffed in pasta? No thanks (5) DOWN 3 Columnist's sent up cant (6) 4 Largely unfamiliar range of nerves (6) 5 Some sour varieties for crab- eater (4) 6 More unsteady from one in cocktail-maker? (7) 7 Bright girl, we hear, gets degree'

8 in holding fancy siren's orna- ment (8, hyphened)

10 Savage trait of cur is seen, so rabid (13) 13 Trifle 'e 'ad in old-fashioned spread (7) 15 Novel unknown in Indic tongue

17 I6) ndolent — is too flabby, need- ing energy (6)

19 Handle local article cut in furtive manner (7) 20 Isolate explosive firework (6) 23 Bluejackets also possessed by 34 (8) 26 Rep, one in a band (7)

29 Muslim, is it, he converted? (6) 32 Below erstwhile clear peak of Helvellyn (5)

36 Periodical's heard to steal from Scott (4)