CROSSWORD

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 opened on 26 June. Entries to: Crossword 912, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The italic clues are normal. The others each comprise, in either order, a definition part and an anagram of the light including two consecutive redundant letters. These pairs (per se) are the components of the twelve 4-lettered words in the diagram.

Name Address

14 L6 12 13 43 144

142 8 1

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ACROSS 1 All book for game (8)

5 Amounts of butter over the French bread? (6)

10 Both smile, are glad (10) 12 Vegetable soup rots (6)

13 Jars from a hamper, maybe, con- taining nothing (8)

16 Great extinct tuskers (5) 17 I love last of summer in NY (7)

18 Homes accommodating yellow parrots (7)

20 Pat oils hot palms (8)

25 Rum in hot spicy drink (3)

26 Three-mast vessel (7) 28 Repudiates Cretan spy (7)

29 A theologian's tot (3) 31 Cedarn plot here in Dorset (8) 34 Agree with artist's caprice (7)

36 Pinch lace, feature of church (7) 39 Axe co-ed joints (5)

40 Sikh dome made out in Arab chiefs domain (8)

41 E.g. grade's rated (6) 42 Wheatear soar? A skimmer? (10)

43 Garden herb Mum's culled (6)

44 He's a VIP, Red, apt to be sticky (8) DOWN 1 Kim lives month in Israel (6) 2 Load all fit ships in fleet (8)

3 Old deck's a danger, we hear (6)

4 Pale yellow on model (5)

7 Action necessarily includes sol- dier (11)

9 Lone priest, e.g. Paul? (8) 11 Attribute of verse Muse (Erato)

(7) 16 Formality much used in top game

(11) 23 Rented shed? Made offer (8) 24 Cross peer to sue (7) 27 A pagan? Same attributes (8)

32 Pentateuch from God: a start for Hebraists (6)

33 Dulse e.g.'s slimy stuff (6) 35 Groat's a monetary unit (5)