CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further priits 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 23 February. Entries to: Crossword 794, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (not themselves words) each consist of one thematic word enclosed in another. Their barred letters, and two self-checking letters, give the anagram: YE'LL HAVE ALL VOLES, BEARS, CATS — EACH IN ODD QUARTERING. One French word is not in Chambers.

Name Address 4 S

10

14 13 15 16

18 19

25

1'71 30

34 31

32 37 35 38 39

42 43

1

23 Z6 1

33 j36

40

120 21 p,

24

27 28

7

F41

ACROSS

6 Stable so packed with matting

13 wo bolivars yielding small amounts once (5) 14 Scottish prattle about striker (7) 16 Back and almost all of breast- bone (7) 20 Save unspecified quantity in store (4) 22 The Bard's affianced — if other'd broken up (7) 23 Faceless characters in ancient customs (4) 24 Divots concealing Eastern silver deities (7, hyphened) 26 Assists with extras (7) 30 D, see, is for Demon (4) 31 Fancy rose-red altar screen (7) 34 River's swallowed golfer's first drive (4) 36 Precious stone, one loosely set, look, returned (7) 39 Seaman scowls about duties (7) 40 Lucie's bubbly, the one from Champagne (5) 42 Feature of dykes (kersantite) in gravel ridges (6) DOWN 2 Shellfish for old soldiers (8) 3 Smuggler makes blunder among Cockneys (5) 4 Heraldic border on one's fabric

(7)

5 Diminutive man raised the French bets (7) 6 Baroque hasp on Queen, old- fashioned orb (6) 7 A quiet match, most fitting (6) 8 Nitre oddly inactive (5) 17 Goddess central to destinies (3) 18 Goose providing lad with gold turns up (5) 21 Greek letter 'ad upset girl (5) 25 Half stripped in mud, see, floundering (8, hyphened) 27 Animal for feast about Sunday

28 S(3 acred beetles — to wit, natives of Middle East (7)

29 Bear has us in a spot (7) 32 Pierce old English metal (6) 33 Works ropes loose binding one (6) 35 Turns pages from a folio in the Gallic style (5)

37 Eastern lime maybe yields resin (5)