920: Sorrowful

A first prize of £20 and 'Lm 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 21 August.. Entries to: Crossword 920, The Spectator, 56 Doughty ,Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. Name Address ACROSS 9 See 33 (4) 11 Morn broke: tailless goat finally rose at usual speed (10, two words) 15 Nimble caracal is somersaulting, partly (6) 17 Muse about roundweed (5) 18 Go back over censure about City

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21 It yields juice from new silo by ebbing river (7, hyphened) 23 Sea-port producing grass (7) 24 Detect type of bullet right away (5) 26 See 10 (5) 28 Headland seaweed's for an old order of birds (7) 32 A religious scholar involving Dane for book's supplementary material (7) 34 Remorse, once, from a desire to deceive (8) 36 Girl's inner sex-appeal and friendship (5) 40 It's a month from the back half of Lent to mid-July (4) . 42 Household goddess without a robe (4) 43 Becomes afraid, upsetting even Rose: no less! (14, three words) DOWN 2 Mortal? — partly: if at all (5) 3 Enthusiastic about Tyneside chant (6) 4 Scottish bear seen rising in sheer delirium (4) 5 Sparkling measure and wild antic (7) 6 Leave quietly with petticoat at full length (7, two words) 7 East coast sea-mist enveloping steamer and catfish (6) 8 Was not humble description of valley of Argolis (6) 10 US wagon-lit 26 exchanged with army cot (12, hyphened) 12 What should be worn by a Rec- tor in Red Cross, maybe (12, two words) 14 Money as yet unpaid about included ncluded in trees (7) 16 Money on raw vegetable (8) 19 Trustee's banner in a cathedral city (8) 25 Assess gold upset during 39, maybe (8) 27 Considers fights once (7) 29 Neat gin mixed as stimulant to defensive growth (7) 30 Length of ploughed land related to insect's growth (6) 31 He and I in Paris brought up in mantiscript for Parliament (6) 33 9 sPilt on the spot for explosive (6) 35 Sucker's left outdoor-man (5) 37 Row of gtins' volley (4)