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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 5 October. Entries to: Crossword 826, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Duller new rain-hat gaining lift aerodynamically! (14), two hyphens 9 Discount silver? Joyous shout!

12 Minor nor planet reflecting very much (4) 17 See 20 (5) 20 17t, a new mathematical value

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21 Encircled and cleaned out (7) 24 Calls unexpectedly — by para- chute? (7, two words) 25 Crowded precinct (5) 26 Lasso in the rancheria, tasselled

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28 Size of paper for a Penguin (7) 34 Toy duck around another (7) 37 Creature with hot desire adv- anced (5) 38 Aftermath of girl losing article

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39 Calls up and cancels take-away

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40 Nut-hairs (4) 42 Sweetheart showing what was easy once (4) 43 Sinister fortresses and drives in GB (14, four words) DOWN 1 Bother! He embraced lass, wri- thing (6)

2 First of eggs in insubstantial nest (5)

3 One sort of section is conven- tional (6) 4 Hood's bird (5) 5 High wave heading towards shore, unchecked, now attaining maximum intensity (7) 6 Lifeless sailor: one with no ner- vous twitch (7) 7 Chemical substance and metal on carpet (6) 8 Renounced posh general coming up in rush (8) 13 The beam that's under the blankets? (7) 15 Sporting area is cut off — sur- rounded by swirling river (8, hyphened) 18 Bloodsucker's cover on drain (10, hyphened) 19 Magazine published regularly with page on illustration (8) 22 Inflict punishment on The 12' during break (7, hyphened) 27 Choral works of Smetana end- lessly arranged with Hungarian initially (7) 29 Fruit-fungus. See! (7) 30 Limonite carried round in per- fect condition (6, hyphened)

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35 One night in Paris for the Eski- mo people (5) Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.