CROSSWORD 959: For good measure by Mass

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 4 June. Entries to: Crossword 959, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each clue comprises a definition part and, e sewhere, a hidden Jumble of the light's consecutive letters incorporating one extra letter. These 36 extras, in clue order, spell out a six-word phrase describing the unclued lights (one a plural and one a phrase). Ignore two accents.

Name Address DOWN

1 Apply seal and post papers (6) 2 Bible man, no heathen (4)

3 Liquid myrrh tasted cloysome (6) 4 Hot, rich type of digestive fer- ment (7) 5 Is very careful — snake-pit is alarming (10, two words) 6 Discuss new symbol of Hellos (7, hyphened) 8 Blouse, pretty, neat (5) 10 Neath a restful palm (6) 13 Blistering from an insect, verit- able . . . (8) ACROSS

1 I taste a neat liqueur (8) 8 Pen, sturdy enclosure (4)

11 One after PhD made Greats up at Oxford (12, hyphened) 14 Down? Ex-US Senator's in KO

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16 Hang around Heptonstall (4) 17 Car is one old crate (5) 18 Massenet's best musical work (6) 22 Carp it is, one for angler (8) 24 Bracts on locust-trees (6) 25 CIA's lively code cracker (6) 27 Look, a guest's anorak (7) 29 Burned, sunned — nasty feature of seaside (8, hyphened) 33 Former Indian nationhood (6) 34 RA fulminating at painting (5) 37 Bad ale served to parish officers 38 Here's briony, plant in Spenser

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39 Apparatus for distilling spirits? A f'actor, normally (12) 40 Sluice, or a rapid current (4) 41 Slops poured out onto sorry old gaffer (8) 19 . . . cause of typhus: a tick it is, really (10) 20 In France I courted giddy Pari- sienne (8) 26 Pneumatic bed, just for special patient (7) 28 Roar at and from alchemist's furnace (8) 29 Deer returns — Bambi (6) 30 Secretary can't imagine where the new mail might be (6, hyphened) 32 Father appeared (5) 36 Liberian works overtime (4)