CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 17 February. Entries to: Crossword 743, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (all in Chambers under the appropriate heading) are of a kind and are suggested by parts of two normal solutions. Ignore two accents.

Name ACROSS 5 A kind of praise, abroad (6) 10 Air mail from gull by trading station (10, hyphened) 12 Hastened to church and left search for stolen goods (6) 13 Fairy coming to freeze about point closest to earth (8) 16 Quantity I take for government revenues (5) 17 Gale North embraced by GPO employee (7) 18 Drunkard returning to notice another (7) 20 Oil that's the making of acidic compound (8, hyphened) 26 Birds suited to caves (7) 28 Relative's article is foul (7) 31 Camel caught in obstruction by 29 (8) 34 Monkey-god (7) 36 Old pleat: dress's sound (7) 39 Cry like fox-hunter right away from jester (5) 40 Artist at home before autumn shower (8) 42 21 tapes I unravel becoming very tidy (10, four words) 43 Annie's maybe mad (6) 44 Occupied No. 10 — one before Mr Heath (8) DOWN 1 Brightly coloured pike is gutted (6) 2 Delegated priest, uplifting 22 without class, initially (8) 3 Heartless girl's pear (6) 4 Foolish writer turned up during t (5)

7 i A -spiring fellow? (11)

9 Work of art isn't commonly found in a small ring (8) 11 He favours the best hat being raised first (7) 14 Cause to applaud (4) 15 These trinkets are flimsy. Not half! (4) 16 Mixed drink from Alexis Colby, almost (11, two words) 19 Willingly, etc (4) 21 See 42 (4) 22 See 2 (4) 23 Extremely sharp pain embracing family (8) 24 Race appropriate union over Home Counties railway (7) 27 Double feature. Good Health! (8, hyphened) 31 Artificial rubber rabbit has one 32 ne left doorman confused for boon companion (6) 33 Wrote in confinement (6) 35 Petty quarrel about left strip of chair-back (5)