Crossword 712

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95— ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 1 July. Entries to: Crossword 712, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 10 Dull drunk (5) 11 Foreign bodies active with spleens (6) 12 Justification for oppressed society (7) 14 One weak, cut in struggle (4) 17 Evidence of boring insect: rid with scrape (8, hyphened) 20 Seconds — rush for portion (5) 21 Protective piece, gold hat (7) 22 Tipsy, quite drunk, holding one's head (5) 27 Resort to tnck right away (3) 31 Greeting from heart of a 22 (5) 33 Affectation — 'ill-billy 's nauseated in Dakota (7, hyphened) 34 Fish boxer, we hear (5) 35 Case of bottles all erect but broken (8) 36 We hear James'il call for the joint (10, two words) 38 Sicknesses from 'eights (4) 39 Monsieur with possibly 11 servants (7) 40 Six crows at first caught in substance, bird-lime (6) 41 Ammoniac plant from Delos, hacked (5) 1 Cell-sac, geranium's, mag shredded around river (14) 2 Boat has bottomless gloomy look (4) 3 Doe may appear here — seek, hour on river (10, hyphened) 4 Orsino'd collapsed within (7) 5 Food includes long Scottish cake 6 Display symbolic diagram in letter (8) 7 Fruit in region attracted (7) 8 Stalin's touts roam round State for reds (14) 13 True male province (5) 15 Openings of operatic song, stir old Italian (5) 18 Non-active metal conducted (3) 19 Deathlessness — no end, Ian -- based on old creed (10) 25 Keeping awake? Poet's right out ) 28 fop — i.e. mountain (5)

30 Line, one forgotten in Ado?

Plenty in Shakespeare (7) 32 Old-fashioned small shelter let winds in (6)

35 Decay, 04id in columbium (5)

37 Doctor's fifty-one (4) The solution to Crossword 709 is on page 32 Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.