12 MARCH 1988, Page 42

CROSSWORD

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 28 March. Entries to: Crossword 849, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Early development of company embraced by highly-esteemed head (14) 11 State secret, but to no avail (6)

12 Story-teller backing state-track (7)

14 Loud and soft linen? (4) 16 I let 'Hamlet' change con- tinuously (10, three words) 17 State profit including nothing for extremely strict doctrinaire (8) 20 Note following spring flood (5) 21 Tea that's otherwise included sort of bun (7) 22 `Go away!' exclaims Hilary's heart (5) 24 See 34 (3) 27 and 18 Estate ordering crockery (6, hyphened) 31 Quiet in Scotland, but it's noisy about noon! (5)

33 Region embracing one Eastern genus of spiders (7)

34 Chains in 35D breaking 24 points (5) 36 Below the royal crest, old flaw by worker (10, hyphened) 38 Fashionable gold returned for Oriental pill-box (4) 39 A dance suggests Chevalier (7)

41 The foreign types of wine pro- ducer? (5)

42 Possibly 21 and you, mate, like Daphne (14) DOWN 1 Painter left soak embracing prostitutes about one . . . (14, two words) 2 . . . . . to die from drink (4) 5 Athlete almost finished race (5 6 A team — it's true — of stars (8 7 Shape of shed erected in mi.: - week (7) 8 Figures at which there is con- fusion (14, three words) 13 Some goulash, chives and cab- bage soup (5) 18 Decline escort, up North (3) 19 Remote land developing source of fruit (10, hyphened)

23 Repetition about creatine (8) 26 Sea-creature beat its victim (7)

28 Standard score? — No! (5) 29 Standard score? — Yes! (3) 32 Warning what water is (6) 35 Town for quite old adult (5) The solution to Crossword 846 is on page 44. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.