CROSSWORD 1019: Mainly anatomical by Jac

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 (please, no photocopies) opened on 12 August. Entries to: Crossword 1019, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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ACROSS 1 Being a bag makes a girl sick at heart (5) 4 Rubber rear-end to a plane (9) 12 Obtained a lout's description of some horror-tales (7) 14 Off-colour with mange? That's sweet! (5) 15 Father takes tea in a country house abroad (5) 16 A blood-fine's about £1 here in Italy (6) 22 Physician wholly occupied in de- scription of some awards (8) 23 A colleger lacking finish about Town (7) 24 Shakespeare's augment the heartless 39, perhaps (4) 25 Move round (4) 27 1000 fish, including one and a half ling (7) 29 Part of forehead initially grow- ing lip-like structures (8) 32 A wreath to the German replac- ing the sleuths in 15D (6) 34 In France, this town? (5) 35 Shellfish are about in afternoon here (5) 36 Shed about, bail out, and fish (7) 37 Esoteric Greek character swal- lowed by a whale (6) 38 Metre a girl's 31, upset having a doctor coming in (10) 39 One bird or another beside a river (9) 40 Scots set about building capital mountain abroad (5) DOWN

1 Feature of paper covering pro- jection out East (10)

2 Type of island sorcerer (5) 3 The very chap to go after 100,000 rupees? (6) 4 Subject of opera 34A left un- finished in Italy (7) 5 Such ruin in EEC maybe is nothing to 15D's end (7) 6 Religion, to Lamb, a 'hair's- breadth apart' (5) 7 Could be a mélange of 34D and a tailless 33 fish (9) 8 Two jackdaws and a parrot (4) 10 Myth about the French males being easily excited (9) 13 Implement a saying worry intro- duces (7)

17 To be about 101 is 201 to a bird (9)

18 Star group one begs to come round (7) 19 A revolutionary sort of claim of no useful importance (10) 20 One's about to name everyone an old woman (9) 21 Sign of cold, four points above zero? Not half! (6) 26 Could be all up with an often flattened larva (7) 28 Bore a capital xylem (7) 30 Clout or slosh a bird (6) 31 Bony Trojan (5) 33 Cut off the alien's fish (5)