CROSSWORD

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 20 November. Entries to: Crossword 933, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Two key lights (one of two words) and different triads suggested indirectly by each are unclued. The key lights and the well-known phrases at 15-and 38 are not in Chambers.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Fellow with hunting-dog in brawl (6) 5 Turned red again, sort of mad- der! (8) 11 Equal once, long time back (4) 13 Dull hair, his, matted (6) 16 The Spanish coin millions in province (5) 19 A foreign plain maybe with a river in one flat area (9) 23 Raises revolting armies, enroll- ing leader of Ironsides (8) 24 Captured, it's assumed (5) 25 One's normal 'health'? One al- ways drinks it? (5) 27 In mistyped letter we hear of seaside (8) 30 Strains catching fish for certain occasions (7) 33 Dig barrier right out, forming transport link (9, hyphened) 37 Spoil gold Hebrew dish (5) 38 Batting to leg, one's caught suffering! (6, two words) 40 Dim Etna erupted, shudderingly spontaneous (14) 41 Civic leader a long time ago invested in ritual (8) 42 Vacation in retirement (6) DOWN 1 Jack wades about in lakes (6) 2 Driving back, in consequence (12) 3 Frighten as before with a loud organ (5) 4 Rhyme or iambic I twice sup- pressed in composition (6) 5 1000 in swindle? What a yarn!

6 ut off a baron, roast (7) 7 A little rain is sweet? (7) 8 Some pirana I anticipated, swim- ming horizontally (6) 9 Sticker for plug he split (8) 12 Sill you cracked badly (7) 14 Posters left in a state, on thin boards (8)

21 Points to attend to in true copY (7)

26 I'm right cutting into genuine upturned dripstone (7) 28 Salts last of porridge oats I'd cooked (7) 29 Treacherous region up above Paraguay (6) 31 Fashionable beverage, found behind bars (6) 32 Scraps recipe in parts (6) 34 Record Welsh ceremony (5) 36 Old loafers needing heels (4) one