CROSSWORD

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 September. Entries to: Crossword 824, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The nine unclued lights (two are themselves phrases) comprise in all six versions of an entry in the imaginary title. One is hyphened and the OED gives 29 Across.

Name Address ACROSS 11 One with gin, beguiling type (6)

13 out to clear up outsize fire- place back (7)

15 Some honeycomb usually found in trees (5)

16 Incident judged, given hearing (5)

17 Audibly worships near entrance, as before (6) 18 Plants sold back with old cash

(5) 21 Man caught in a spot (5)

27 Entrance? Dressing without di- amonds is odd (7) 29 English girl expelled once (5) 30 Annoying for fence losing article (6) 32 Wicker trap for a lemur (5) 36 Cut badly round tip of chin (5) 37 Hunter needs prayer (last of arrows missed) (5) 38 One is returning letter showing cordial flavour (7) 39 Stirs up mobs around South (6) 40 Bond's item of wear (3) 41 Day with rhino full of hostility gets bonus for stuntman? (11, two words) DOWN

1 Arrives, probing son's accounts (10) 3 P9) rops up, having short measures (

4 Not critically tested — like a ham-fisted pug? (12) 5 Crumpled red lint roll (7) 6 Amateur bit of furniture (8) 7 Crone from past in mostly smooth attire (5) 8 Walk among pixy-stools (4) 9 Unusually recondite study re-

hected: compile again (6, yphened) 10 Jib one hoisted, in a state (5)

12 Gutless — no head, maybe, for struggle (6) 14 Salt with minced meat, soft- sounding viand (12) 19 Restrained extremes of levity in heavy manner (10) 24 Entry, see, tampered with the night before (8) 25 Dirty scion on flower (6) 28 17th-century sectarian is to try English king (6) 31 Plucky and passionate (5) 33 Girl's short biscuit (5) 35 Kick gives advantage (4) The solution to Crossword 821 is on page 44. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.