CROSSWORD 857: Conclusions by Jac

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 23 May. Entries to: Crossword 857, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each of six unclued lights is claimed to be part of the seventh of a group of which a light clued without overall definition is one.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 5 A soldier's way with a club (6) 9 In time having no aim to dis- seminate morbid sexual passion (10) 14 Letter that makes one cross (3) 16 Two attempts bearing fish (6) 17 Get a renal disorder (5) 18 Proclaim partners crooked (5) 20 Wife in a temper (7) 22 Most close for Easter, perhaps, after midday (7) 24 One pursuing Homer round a pub was a Greek poetess (7) 25 Dances unaccompanied before king returns (5) 26 Cut offspring out (5) 28 Dusky youth centre doctor, sore distressed (7) 31 Gripe about this classic (7)

33 In pieces, love's first to humify (7)

38 Doc turned and raced round (5) 39 No, not one of a group! (6) 40 Charms ash, say (3) 42 As long as is left in a game (6) 43 Protectively covers one one's otherwise without? Hell! (8) DOWN 1 Fresh supply of pens? Her men lit out! (13)

2 Re-endowment of health centre in support of Charlie's upbring- ing (5)

3 Take on lightweight part of press (6) 4 Produce a motive (5) 7 Re-employed pensioner's craft (6) 8 Troll brought up to talk (4) 10 Organisms actively swimming round about? Not to know! (6) 11 One system thus us upset about an unknown doctor's mutually beneficial partnership (9) 12 Never-ending state of siege nuns scan haphazardly (13) 13 A faithless type, egad? In Reno?

(8) 19 Smartens up North American attendant (9) 21 Springbok's province as base for one hybrid of most recent birth

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23 About right? Over River Spree!

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27 Feelings primitive in the but- tocks? (7) 29 Spoke affectedly with care about • the Establishment (6) 34 Empty building (5) 35 A schoolgirl? Wrong! (5) 36 Became hard (4)