CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 23 November. Entries to: Crossword 833, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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26 27 28 29 30 34 31 32 33 35 37 38 39 I 136 — 41 D 1 411_ 42 43 The title and seven unclued ights (one doubly hyphened) share a common factor de-IA long ago. All lights except a clued name are in Chambers.

Name Address ACROSS

9 Justify former possessions (4)

15 Rubber on soles has vigour with inbuilt support (6) 17 Handle body of officers (5) 18 Murmur from short beck by lake 20 griergy produced an atomic backward life-form without oxygen (8) 21 Revive after doc? Practically (7) 23 Totters about passage (7) 24 Cutter in southern channel (5) 26 Genuine craftsman, we hear (5) 28 Vet police over from Norway?

g 32 ) with • with little money, such as spurned vestments (7)

34 Spears fish in river seconds later 8) 36 One hard to believe in any cir- cumstances (5, two words)

38 Provide song, almost tipsy (5, two words) 39 Dagger point's cut a fabric (6) 40 No water around for power (4) 41 Disturb with glib way? That's your loudmouth (10, hyphened) 43 Odd fans help, once lifted with- in, at NY game (14, hyphened) DOWN

1 Redeemer plied with deal over king (8)

2 Organ part, trifle, is heard (5) 3 Bach's first baroque fugal mea- sure (6) 4 Boy's cut a tooth (4) 5 Bed incorporates right singular headpiece (7) 6 Those who furnish rivets as lin- er's constructed (7) 7 Touchy short line, in grief (6) 8 Passes without measure for Mag- dalen scholars (6) 12 Unruly runabout MC is reform- ing (12) 14 Sink lower in estimation? Scott's not shallow (7) 16 Sticky substance, drop seen up tree (8, hyphened) 19 Dude heard disturbing bishop's dignity (8) 25 Ever made up with touch of rouge and eye-tint? (8)

29 Mountain lion above, on a tree? (7)

30 Guides as before, leads around Spain (6) 33 One covers up, slumbering (6) 35 A name upheld by London — any — theatres? (5) 37 Faithful measure: litre (4)