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848: Six-by-two by Jac

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 21 March. Entries to: Crossword 848, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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43 helps avoid 28 and each (hyphened and containing an apostrophe) describes three of the other otherwise undued lights.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS

1 Her point, among other similar 11 For-formative generator (9)

(8) anagram (13) bashful (6) in camera? In a way! (8)

accommodation (10) donesians (7)

16 Fish to take a tailor (6) (7)

17 Shakespearian led astray — dis-29 Fully frozen fish (6) missed by a yorker? (5) 32 See 38 (6) treatment (5) Rangipur (5) 20 Originally produced idea, in 35 Do well in a local victory (5) principle (7) 36 Bit of a push-ahead king (4) 22 Maybe 27 or a US Freemason

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24 Creep round and about on the spot like a fish (7) 25 Coin for those seeking accom- modation (5) 26 See 41 (5) 31 Virgo, say, or a lady (7) 33 Animal women rushed back to back, note (7)

37 I backed 'Alumnus' — it died!

38 Unmarried married 32 upset? Heartlessly set on anxiety! (5) 39 Testaceous bearing lacking in a poet (6) 40 Fighting's worse up North(3)

41 Ate a mixture of green 26 (10)

42 Drink changing sides in 39 (6)

DOWN

1 Maybe Eve's aim — it isn't characteristic of an ape! (13) 3 Overlong type of badge (6) 4 Bottle a novelist broke (5) 6 Those who strike are those who may raise the game (7) 7 Like t' king's rabbit (6) 10 Saw a decoy (6) ones, is held by it to be natural 12 Convert to St Peter, as in an