CROSSWORD
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 11 September. Entries to: Crossword 923, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
Eight of the unclued lights (six of two or more words), whe arranged in the correct order, yield a quotation from the remaining unclued light.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post -a-Book' service. ACROSS 8 Backward rustic (4) 10 Young woman altering parish monetary state (10) 12 Arms sent back in good order (4) 14 Fellow European having this new fixation (6) 17 Tablet of stone left in river (5) 18 Breeding-places of laryngitis (5) 20 Registered tailless bird in outer district (7) 21 Take a meal with lecturer in shed (7) 24 Conductor rearranging London Symphony Orchestra before Toscanini lost heart (5) 25 Orientals' courtesan (5) 27 Heavy blows — left and right within range (7)
30 Profane verse confusing to Elia (7)
32 Rhetorical question about a meteor (7) 36 Wound in contact with large knife (5) 37 Turn out for tennis star (5) 38 Almost having a leg over a girl! (6) 39 Broods during botany, especially (4) 40 Hardly a county mount! (10, hyphened) 41 Female in crazy film (4) 42 Broken cue Doc sent Mass: that's habit! (14) DOWN 2 Financial backer: one with leg up! (5) 3 Article Dante rewrote is attached (6) 4 Idol changing start of epic film popular long ago (5) 5 Sore about set-up, he killed Clytemnestra (7) 6 See 9 (6) 7 European exercise about to hin- der new treatment for hay fever
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9 Where a hit appears — chant 6, possibly (11, three words) 13 Couple hobble (7) 19 Slovenly work in Ayr upsetting realists (8) 28 Some American attorney's col- ouring (6) 29 Imaginative upset: quote work (6) 31 Followed the rules giving award to rising pasha in Algiers (6) 33 Tempest or monsoon — in part (5) 34 Treat once, to live over office (5) 35 Bounces up and down (5)
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