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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions (please, no photocopies) opened on 23 March. Entries to: Crossword 1049, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (none in Chambers) are of a kind, individually or correctly paired. Two are phrases. Their barred letters, and one mutual letter, form the anagram: AN EAGLE, KITE HANG – LOOK OUT, ANN. The OED gives 5D. Ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Fraud's prosecuted, we hear (5) 4 Genus of birds in index (9)

12 Two pints, one every third day

14 V ) late in yarfa (Shetland)? (5) 15 Comb-like organ caught old

affliction (5) 16 Woolly tufts? Garden plant, it's said, has one (6) 22 Roar, fly madly around for all to see? That's enough! (8) 23 Speed, that is, in pulling back extra players (7) 24 Garble English poem of old (4) 25 Short lad's eyepiece (4) 27 Heart of onion, veg making you tearful? (7) 29 Hairy tufts? None in mushy cap- sule (8) 32 Drumbeats heard by Eddy, last from radio D-J (6) 34 A soak's audible judgment (5) 35 Planet's round active craters (5)

36 Algae, mostly unique in a way (7)

37 Witchcraft, endless talk of funer- al rites (6) 38 Guards birds (10) 39 Wordsmith e.g. toils on, in con- trived way (9) 40 Lyric about concert-hall (5) DOWN 2 Fibre: GI's girl has a length (5) 3 Nettle, cause 'arm to one accountant (6) 4 Saloon name much used on N. American trail? (7, two words) 5 Useless in Paris, until I trans- lated English (7) 6 Crumb among articles in trunk 7 endless fruit, note, above an ape (9, hyphened) 8 Spell Eastern letter (4) 10 Boat in a bay I had wrecked, second of dhows (9) 13 Conspire with contracted type- setter on the whole (7) 18 Note, ref's at fault more fre- quently (7) 20 I sever cat, wrongly, for gut! (9) 21 'N' in skin, or I' in skin? (6) 26 Grinding, losing weight, not married (7) 28 Mass's opening one No Trump, or it could be (7) 30 Weaver gets rid, box being warped (6, hyphened) 31 Freeman of Nice or Lyon (5) 33 Doc heads a company, group of stars (5)