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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 May, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1310, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC IN 2LL.
Eight unclued lights (one f two words) might be put 19 (two words) by a 12. Elsewhere ignore two accents.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Minded about clogging pasture stream (8, two words) 9 Singing Butterfly, maybe cut bled beyond surgery (10) 16 Description of neat native (6) 17 One circuit frayed feet (5) 18 One is blending dye (5) 20 Old Profs Club in middle of meeting (7) 22 Apprentices start off money- spinners (7) 24 Antagonistic jingle? (7) 25 Ready for battle (5, hyphened) 26 Jock's fence fixed again (5) 31 Orestes chewed fish (7) 33 Fruit chopped to garnish chicken (7) 38 Sally's after European outfit (5) 39 Heavenly PM in charge (6) 40 It's the sound of confusion (3) 41 Race round for pipsqueak? (10, hyphened) 43 Reithean love for English transfigured broadcast (8, three
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2 Bedroom 150 nicely placed at Gleneagles (5)
3 Poet's sorrow and rage electrify anew (6)
6 Notes royal serving for Italy in ball-game (7)
7 Balmy isle holds aged palms (6) 8 Walton's viola (4) 10 Endangers Liz injecting ethyl (6) 11 Tube user is madly keen Circle Line runs right (9) 13 Pepper from Jamaica upset one friend (8) 15 Book ambassador plots (7) 21 Swine offered up, the religious ingested? (8, hyphened) 23 Author realises thoughts (7) 27 Four notes? About four (7) 29 Edit chapter rated shoddy (6) 30 Director's arrogance in speech (6) 34 Theatre-in-the-round ill done (5) 35 Plato's letters about flies (5) 36 Worm in golf club banning women (4)
Solution to 1307: Everything but
The unclued lights were all KITCHEN ITEMS.
First prize: Anne Madge, Duffield, Derbyshire. Runners-up: Michael J. Grocott, Loughborough, Leics; Nick Brown, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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