CROSSWORD 1037: Partners in rhyme by Ascot

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of i10 (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 lb December. Entries to: Crossword 1037, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights, five pairs, are connected by a theme.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Rod's backyard? (5) 4 Maybe song could make you a wealthy person (9) 9 Trouble a Latin landed in over a birthday (10) 12 Like a tombstone made out of steel — new almost (7) 14 A berry may make one better, it's said (5)

16 E.g. Cook is in old English tomb (6)

22 Haring about with the Parisian, I get puffed (8) 25 What a bowler can do for the city (4) 27 Folded, with dish capturing one with clubs (7) 29 Colonists who pay off debts? (8) 32 Whinnies coming from the nose, we hear? (6) 34 A growth from which a tree grows (5) 35 Simple flag makes one safe (5) 37 Foreigner running business in China, venomous type (6) 38 To make a driving error's less than neat (10) 39 Watching musical, making comeback, drinking wine (9) 40 Conductor makes a gesture at end of overture (5) DOWN 1 Young swine takes an age over job with delivery service (10, hyphened) 2 Salt's type of boat has speed (5) 3 Tapeworm is smaller still, we hear (6) 4 Adept mother holding lid (7) 7 Cheerfulness in e.g. Italy's un- usual (9) 8 Cutting that's put in tin (4)

.10 Act of authorising nice rules for a change (9)

13 One officer's active, it's reported — and another (7)

15 Immoral woman's name I love in brothel (6)

(7j 18 Senorita concealed seaweed 17 Where football was played? (9 19 Was undoing one with it in watch (10) 20 Ageing, seen to go off and to smell (9) 26 Stand clear — there may be a catch in it (7) 31 Refuse a lift (5)

33 Wimbledon champion holds re- cipe for wealth (5) 34 Turkish commander, horrified, losing strait (4)