CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further 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 3 July. Entries to: Crossword 913, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind.

Name

Address ACROSS 1 Could be M. Tati's cameo of some creature's posterior (11) 7 Saying a ten-dollar bill's a dollar less (3) 11 Sort of school gossip in some women's quarters (6) 13 Money's first (as were things not words) for him (7) 15 Blame 40 (5) 16 Frustrates blackbirds (5) 17 Source of dope of a dope some spooks have got hold of (6) 18 A gold-plated tool, the last word in France (5) 20 Such as Dilrer's 'one number in another'? (6)

21 A song from one Italian group (5)

22 100,000 rupees given a Scots cow's servile follower (7) 27 Was clever being unskilful (7) 29 Up to about 51, never leader in trade union (5) 30 Confused type, one having back- ing of native instruments (6) 32 Unfavourable in re one lunar feature (5) 34 Shakespeare's stake in backing Mississippi card-player (6) 36 American girl ahead of some foreign beasts (5) 37 It's a boy — and some of his best days, these! (5) 38 A master-switch for various plants (7) 39 Two-faced brace (6) 40 Agreed sequence (3) 41 How one who's 3 may act (11)

DOWN

2 Negotiate a couple of points in a stretch (8) 5 Vessel possibly dark brown overall (7) 6 Response of Tom to his mother? (8) 7 Sort of 33 that helps one sur- mount an obstacle (5) 8 Rail round a Royal Gardens (4) 9 Primate giving a girl a leg-up (6) 10 Nearly hidden (5) 19 How the poor vocalist with little character performs (10) 21 Occurring as a matter of course for Pistol? (9) 23 One foreign tree's a feather one? Foreign, yes (8) 26 Vacancy for writer, one new to work out and about (7) 28 Not short, one such growth (6) 31 Fish spawn outright (5) 33 Leased piece of detached land

35 b2) ark blue river goddess (4)

The solution to Crossword 910 is on page 44. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service.