CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three correct solutions opened on 22 August. Entries to: Crossword 870, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each unclued Across light has its pair among the unclued Down lights, though they are oceans apart.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Female in Old Vic .offers new white landmarks (13, three words) 8 Insists upon a backing force (7) 10 Elaborate contract (7) 13 Rejecting an African river- queen (6) 15 Sound and vision (5) 19 Puddle of rain from the Alps (7)

20 3Inipure zinc long time located in 2 7 22 Spo(rt)

smen with shield and tips of tapiers (7) 23 See 17 (5) 24 Old steward always returning out EaSt (5) 26 Foot from fabulous bird in the East (7) 29 Against inconclusive new state associate (7) 30 Chats about N28 (7)

37 Fibre obtained from moist leaves (5 38 Flo)

wer — a red sort — for recesses (7)

39 Disti-ibution of gifts from mag- nanimous Nazi guards (7)

40 Unusually rare defeat concern- ing a zone without tariffs (13, three words) DOWN 2 Japanese immigrant three- quarters in team (5) • 3 Almost unconstrained pried- timer is a stranger in Scotland (5) 4 Holy man in new role as stable- boy (6) 5 Too old — on the•other side of a century! (7, hyphened) 6 Prophet, only half a, priest (6) 9 Upsetting fortner member with a Catholic's old iron? (10, two words) 12 Produces gocids (7) 17 Compresses 23's cost, may (10) 20 Paris gent developing vegetabl (9, hyphened)

21 Arnied guards unsettling coste (7)

25 It's offensive to look at — but did so, we hear (7) 27 Rides out East to live (6) 28 See 30 (6) . 29 Caravan from about half the ol officers (6) 31 Some significant remains frcirt here maybe (5) 32 See 20 Across (5) 33 Lake from part of Kenya anti South Africa (5)