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A first prize of £20 and two ftuther 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 1 July. Entries to: Crossword 1013, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC IN 2LL.

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Before Jac's next puzzle is due to appear he will have completed his 20th year with The Spectator and in this puzzle the 4 undued down lights, although of a kind with 4 dued across and 4 clued down ones, are indicative of what could follow. Ignore hyphens.

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ACROSS 1 A bugbear, this bird (5) 4 Common creatures with a pass- degree a common judge is with- out (9) 9 Signs of a rough past, perhaps (10)

11 Proficient Scots firm located in a wee glen (6)

12 Could be Selima's an apt name for a queen-bee (7) 14 One's ancestry returns to dust in Scotland? (5) 15 Bar for bar, points to a piano piece (5)

16 Choir must be odd, being with- out aspiration for so holy a monogram (6)

- 22 It's material, being permanently polarised and chosen to rot (8) 23 Confident flummery about a high priest (7) 24 Sage, say, is docked for one (4) 25 Somewhat undervalued fuel (4) 27 Creatures, reverse of dainty, found mid-Ocean (7) 29 Cured fish sick out East (8) 32 Bottle as displayed in a motion of contempt (6) 34 Goddess halving a surgeon's fruit (5) 35 The cherished ambition of a lass embracing an artist (5) 36 Unduly sanguine goddess, in- itially a paragon (7) 37 Sort of bird 10's leaders support (6) 38 Setting free and straightening out (10) 39 A fly sort of bird (9) 40 Shrubby tract in a forest (5)

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1 A practitioner of cupid's rite, perhaps (10) 2 Honour a hothead's particular charm (5) 5 Lear being upset upset a diffe- rent character (7)

6 A Sabbath without is a bit quiet (5)

7 A number in great variety con- fined in a storage tank (9) 8 Crack up cakes (4) 10 Upturn thus quoted in, e.g., surveying? (9) 13 Move aimlessly about with res- traint — in Scotland it's a sort of race! (7)

15 Shakespeare's maintains Aberdonians, for instance (6)

18 Examine and analyse in favour of the old local rate (7)

19 Description by former Spectator contributor of a skunk's fatty tumour (10)

20 Maybe hope to support let-up respecting one means of repro- duction (9) 21 Hides broken hearts (6) 28 Was capable of being expressed as, note by note, an old wives' tale (7) 30 Room for public dancing in this establishment (6) 31 Effect a merger having a pound over to finish with (5) 33 Pyrenean about cleared out (5) 34 Blow up a rig (4)