CROSSWORD A first prize of £20 and two further prizes

of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 2 February. Entries to: Crossword 791, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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our apt lights are unclued. Seven others themselves words) derive from solutions to the italic clues in a way suggested by the pile. In these cases the bracketed numbers refer to solutions, not 'gifts. Ignore an apostrophe and five hyphens. The OED gives 2D.

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1 Short left with iron fist, that was (5)

6 Geometrical factors from officer transformed chess (7)

13 Press offices redeploying 5 more (9) 15 Inflammation? Pole is swollen with it (8)

16 Player's canny golf score (7) 17 Heathens curse Sunday (7) 18 Wing and bit of salad (3) 19 Stone shelter round battered prom should be this? (10) 21 Smelly duck provided (5)

24 A mixture in Thailand, like shows in India (8) 27 Wipe out service area (8)

28 'Universal' confused male theologian (5) 30 Seven rags I prepared for varnishing-day (10)

33 Mother requests flowers (7)

35 Drain, scrape limestone cavity

36 S(7 trong ale in processed goat-skin (7)

37 Brass rail's twisted (4)

38 Power in surgeon creates space between two curvital cuttings (9)

40 Plug left in wooden pedal (7) 41 Roman coin collection in one's possession (5) DOWN

2 A )giggle grips women dithering (8

3 Timber's mouldy smell I caught (6) 4 Rani set on unusual salvers (9) 5 Heroin's in brig-like ships (6) 6 Company, heading for Mafeking with defences, brings relief (8)

7 Witch caught up by holy bishop (5) 8 Borrower, silly one, breaking road-surface up (9) 10 Plants suffer in polluted streams (10)

12 Fat, incredible short bird (6) 14 Ruminating type, Henry, in pub with a litre (6) 20 Glen (mason) devised old en- gines for casting stones (9) 22 Eskimo's cut about dead bird (6) 23 Press one awkwardly for answer (8) 25 Decent scenery over river no end (8) 26 All in green for ball-game (6) 29 Sickness shows rising pulse in time (6)

31 Expanse, flooded by river round South, in swampy state (10)

32 Main charge (5)

34 Once chilled, a fish keeps long (5)

35 Taps unknown sucker (5)