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A. first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 January, With two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1189, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The onclued lights (two of two words, and one of three words), can be resolved into four pairs, three of which Chambers includes; one accent is not indicated in Chambers. The four pairs are of a kind.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Canadian moving round for one snake (8) 5 Counselled wrong, it's said (6) 14 Article of faith expounded (3) 16 Cow-dung from Scotland having fibre in tin (6) 17 Coach — or many of them? (5) 18 Jury photograph (5) 20 Plant extract obtained from Doe Isle (7, hyphened) 22 Annul'ed version that's not loaded (7) 25 Records left out money (5) 26 Tiresome person having time to diversify (5) 31 Justice breaking Meissen (7) 33 Attack a sailor, we hear (7) 37 Unaccompanied secretary getting company (5) 38 Beast short of money (5) 39 Birds emerging from trees round about midnight (6) 40 Row in the boardroom (3) 42 Lecturer reviewing needy old university (6) 43 Shade of blue with hint of purple and red (8) DOWN 1 Sportsman with a friend turning up rarely (13, two words) 2 Shakespeare's cave amid luxuriant arbours (5) 3 Began writing in dictionary (6) 4 Couch I had put up on the front

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6 Old sportsman with a letter about league (7) 7 Grey mammal, beginning to growl, got up, we're told (6) 10 Government agent studies before mid-July (6) 11 He uses his feet and moves about in feeble light (9, hyphened) 15 Arrays of food for large properties (7) 19 Precipitation from West African land, cyclically (9, hyphened) 23 To learn about afterwards (7, two words) 27 Scott's irascible near new suite

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29 Senior envoy, English, Lieutenant X (6) 30 Bird with outsize victim (6) 32 Bee-eaters with members consuming variety of roe (6) 34 Performer is only half-criminal (5) 35 Tendrils in the hair richly twisting (5) 36 Stare at headless ghost (4)