CROSSWORD 834: Current model 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 30 November. Entries to: Crossword 834, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind with an unfinished normal one. One other light is of two words. Ignore one accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Gipsy about to about-turn blame her etchings producer! (13) 8 Area of note in a prison (7)

10 Less scruffy sort of Daily (7)

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13 Geg e! 5) A half-witted literary char- acter's secret envy? (6) 15 Taking off a leg, note (5)

19 Was active and excited (7) 20 Abroad, in a false return, their charges may be colossal (7) 22 Once written and said abroad in conclusion (7) 23 Take a princess one's bones (5) 24 Holds out a sort of shirt a girl's without (5) 29 Vigilant? A state of dreamy re- pose to roll one's eyes about! (7) 30 A princess without bones (7) 34 Hybrid in charge of fossil- bearing rock (4) 35 Threefold test (5) 37 US Government school-board 38 elestial sphere — Mercury, for instance? (7) 39 Tip-top NZ bird described in verse (7)

40 Part in production of play clips in an anticipatory fashion (13)

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1 Pale blaes-like plant (5)

2 Up-beat classical art is (5) 4 Jibs about one's turn to talk tripe (6) 5 Miss the mark in support of a thrower of stones (7) 7 Somehow made to sing about routine drudgery (9) 9 Chapel ruined site of Taj Mahal. that's the complaint (10) 10 Time to hurry round for 31 (6) 12 Selective government in time is, perhaps, Left (7) 14 Rob, in the sun, maybe unwinds 17 Lousiness usiness is just not on for fish (10) 20 Atomic snippets from spies with- out a clue, perhaps? (9) 21 Promote 37 (7) 25 Upset, thus, in inferior metal clippings (7) 28 Overcome making many a bloomer (6) 31 Order a room (5)

33 Work-out of fashionable author (5)

The solution to Crossword 831 is on page 67.

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