CROSSWORD

737: Sleeping partners by Jac

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solu- tions opened on 24 December. Entries to: Crossword 737, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each unnumbered clue (in numerical order, A preceding D) clues without overall definition one of a literary pair of which the other forms the appropriate light. Ignore accents and a hyphen.

Name Address CLUES Project out of position Sign sloth up Plant on a mount Shark after gold in Vietnam Double about amidst fish Finally square fairy semicircle Homosexual creeper, note Stuff Lincoln first Measure vegetables out Take first vehicle round Beetlelike stupor, not half absorbed Is the end of a fellow

IA Bust? Yes, bust — as a recruit for civil servants, perhaps! (14)

Impetuosity in 11 describing Youth Centre in Town (5) This foreign transport only for Capuchins? (5) One trying a probe (6) It could cast light on ruin of leading lady, say (9) One prisoner's image (4) A song introduced by a jazz fan is a calamity (11) Promotion before agitation (10) Favouring remote soccer club (A chemist without plans (4) Streak around Indonesia, say &poser's turn in being driver (8) 1D 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 Position of vast number (51!) with nowt on around in the heartless North (11) 17 Indian State Production Cen- tres (5)

18 Cigarette, no? Sh, such lan- guage! (5)

19 Playwright's creature a game one (8) 24 Fish caught in plinth (5) 25 Reith's alternative community 26 geater stocking nothing for an Indiana inhabitant? (7) 27 Bird? Fish? Both! (7) 30 One ruined beyond recovery the Italian princess (7) 31 Petroleum jelly, friend, boosts a chap up (6) 32 Primate inwardly eager for reduction to absurdity (7) 33 Shoot a young person (5) 34 A dean's the same urge (5) 36 Vessel containing another's fish (5) 37 Former ready homily (5) 38 Man committed to return (6) 39 Simple fictional type (4) 40 Tending to prove a point, see — Latin, perhaps (10) 41 Furious whip, he's back in jug with gout (4) 42 Further adaptations con- cerned with Arts — German, perhaps, in measure likewise (14) The solution to Crossword 734 is on page 56. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the `Post-a-Book' service.