CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words `Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 4 August. Entries to: Crossword 767, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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15 St(4)rain getting purified (3)

18 Maze's design upset communist ) 19 (7 Oyster-catcher swallowing head of kipper and hake (7, hyphened) 22 Supporter returned last month, strengthened (6) 23 A road before track to the birds' home (6) 24 Looking smart in tartan at Tyne- mouth (5) 29 Award you take for a yesman? (6) 31 Perfect in diplomacy (6) 34 Unfurled sail, taking backin bit of one element (7) 35 A looser sort of spray-can (7) 39 Mouldings one removed from Oriental gateway (4) 40 English coat trimmed for heavenly throng (11, two words) 42 Risks arising from his accent (9, two words) 43 7 Welsh oarsmen's total load (11, two words) DOWN 1 He's not playing solo drums, almost, during address (11) 2 Customers' medicine (5) 3 Copper receiving money, first in charge of court members (11) 6 Red dye obtained from 32 caught out king instead (6) 7 See 43 (6) S The harebell blossomed, on Middle Earth (7) 9 Old mate's coming up to reduce canvas (4) for

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10 He used to traffic — in jewel- lery? (9) 17 Union members destroying aster-fields (11) 20 Smooth direction from English town, round edge of lake (9, two words) 21 School sport, endlessly (3) 25 One following is a send-up for an Easterner (5) 26 Still even (3) 28 They're frozen, here, on un- accented keys, in France (7) 32 See 6 (6) 33 Take ages to have a proper place

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36 Nothing right in knight raising a fla(5) 37 Stones right away from sprouts (4)