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 3 November. Entries to: Crossword 780, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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The unclued lights comprise a book title, its author and three nominal sources. Their barred letters could form the anagram: I CHOSE SIR'S MS IN LINED BINDING. The OED gives 20A.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 5 Peg needs turn in roasting device (6) 9 Tick cash returns? System is a PO issue? (10, hyphened) 14 Attack, refusing to suffer fool

(3)

16 Language from lass reportedly in chary (6) 17 Jock s resin is yellow around frame (5) 20 Artist almost ruined the Italian canvas (7) 22 Not once right concerning wood

(7)

24 Ruminate about missing nit- rogen chloride, as before (7) 25 Northern cries, first from game birds (5) 26 Jack and I enlisted in army (5) 31 Kentish saint misread poem (7) 33 Leaped over and settled (7) 37 Destroy English institute, we're told (5) 38 Word without note in choral work (5) 39 Heater exploded in rarefied air (6) 40 I cook tongue (3) 41 Sounds familiar with weight at zero, in charge of old rocks (10) 42 Ed's about to stop Scottish re- frain (6) DOWN

I Dye expert, one with Eastern plants (13)

2 Snap edges of green wood (5) 3 Fish from strait packed in case (6) 4 Paintings (short of 1000) show- ing extensive range (5) 6 Begging is distressing, it's said

(7)

8 Smelly old hat (4) 10 McKellan's too senile to act it repeatedly? (6) 11 Trainee mariners use coasts, maybe (9, hyphened) 13 Wine container's source of bou- quet, no doubt (8, hyphened) 15 Otter's dung crumbling in traps

(7)

19 Miles from land picking up second long walrus (9) 211s Punch a 32? (8) 23 Deserted? General turned up in a rush (7) 27 Scottish presses running in SE Perth (7) 29 Bit of cloth, quite the very latest thing (6, hyphened) 32 A mist dispersing hides nothing for 21? (6) 34 Very musical, 14A and 1(5) 35 Battle cheers raised (5)