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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 20 January. Entries hi: Crossword 1040, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL

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Name Address ACROSS 11 Wood family's beer-barrel (6) 12 Heaven (say) has affinity with first of Gardens, Sir? (7) 14 Pawnbroker's relative (5) 15 Satisfy English girl (5) 16 Tries Eastern vehicle (6) 22 Thrift? Choice, with purse hav- ing nothing? (8) 23 Returning German embraces Northern brownie as a sister (7) 24 Deficient in polonium, gold (4) 25 Press Club (4) 27 Trout is bad for traveller (7) 29 Support English workers in Onent (8) 32 Lines in Siamese plant bodies (6) 34 They tint shoddy, ersatz in part

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35 Oatcake left amid food (5) 36 Loss of mobility audibly strains one in a state (7) 37 Almost drunk, Mark's slated? (6, two words) 38 One rash poet's clumsy inversion (10) 40 Drink for partisan, we hear (5) DOWN 2 Green girl (5) 3 Trench diggers risked getting soiled (6) 4 Singers vocalised notes (7) 5 Forgot lines, did pure ad lib (7. two words) 6 Aged soldier's shield (5) 7 Environmentalist somehow gets oil company involved (9) 8 Frost's verse (4) 13 Married woman is hard, mascu- line (7) 15 Note short rodent, well known (6) 18 Mixture of oil in mind for car- riage (7) 20 Myrtle's relatives play — i.e. cut capers (9) 21 Endless bison roaming around Maine's ecological communities 26 Clean old counter for herring etc (7, hyphened) 28 Watch face, outmoded (7) 30 Scan this, showing angles of eyelids (6) 31 Merry crook (5) 33 Decoy bags 100, sordid gain (5) 34 Mother's soft, dull (4)