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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 21 July. Entries to: Crossword 765, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Twenty-two lights are anagrams of answers clued normally. The italic clues each comprise a definition and a hidden jumble of the light minus its first letter. Ignore one accent and two hyphens.

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Address ACROSS 1 Spell with odd job at noon (5) 4 'New Look' in fashions he's res- tored? (9) 9 Talk, etc., on religion (10) 11 Article in 'The Queen', old space-filler? (5) 12 Mice infested a ruin (7) 14 Mass in Lincoln, right colour (5) 15 Clay is so malleable (5) 16 Mouth stuffed with one potato (6) 21 Levite or rabbi's follower (8) 22 Adding machine of ancient char- acter (7) 24 Old ploughs required by tiller especially (4) 25 Cut returned, gets duck in game (4) 27 Gas, like the anaesthetic (7) 28 Early tegmina, tracts of skin in birds (8) 33 Modern missive: 'A' for energy (6) 34 Beer, insipid, lacking body (5) 35 Fruits for special occasions (5) 37 Saint cracks in struggles (7) 38 Burlesques society outfits (5) 39 Notorious slap-dash painters (10) 40 Tense fetter: i.e. rigid one (9) 41 Waggish, unknown little man (5) DOWN 1 True poet has pathos and Attic salt (13) 2 Slip gets one caught out (6) 3 Touching inclination to go back on one's word (6) 4 Go without diamonds — left in pack (6) 5 Steel network (4) 6 Assembles essentials around HM (7) 7 Rugby team forward in short strip (5) 8 Mortar, once AA type shell (8) 10 Really seems sore, cruelly (13) 13 Small curved feature in little chronometer (7) 15 Expels little la cl in bad set (6) 17 Inhabitant of torrid zone needs an iced drink (6) 18 Measures boundaries round square (6) 19 Model turned up in course of study for painters (7) 20 Homely old-fashioned beam (6) 23 One who hoards her treasure (8) 26 Hammer closes rivets up (7) 29 Mining Engineer has obligation to run business (6) 30 Overdraft hit American bank (6) 31 Comparatively out of condition patient, we hear, must put stone on (6) 32 Plant violets in bit of lawn (5) 36 Fair pace for child, about right (4)