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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 April, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1357, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Six unclued lights can be resolved into pa'rs suggesting the remaining three. Of these three, one is confirmed by Brewer as an intersecting factor in each of the other two.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Savour hearty kiss (5) 9 Canine trio astray in mill bark (10) 11 Be in sun during leave (5) 12 Knack shown loading small rifle

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14 Lower ground eroded in part

(5)

15 What'll grip and lift guilds? (5) 21 Term for well accepted , recipe cooked in east (8) 22 Nastier bait displaced Brie (7) 24 Wing projection (4) 25 Baltic person in priesthood (4) 28 On account of cracking power Dalek excited huge demand (8, hyphened) 34 Tailor hoped to make priest's garment (5) 35 Duck once spread wings on shore (5) 37 Get kindling again just around cut elm (7) 38 Coward's beginning to regret this losing his bottle (5) 39 One with strained back and head, past intimacy (10) 40 Burn got by jogging rattles me

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41 Oppose boldly to carry day (5) DOWN 1 Element turning up among the press worried US secretaries? (13) 2 Dance with maiden aged about 19 (6) 3 Fellow accommodating towards superior (6) 4 Bad end for rebellious movement (6) 5 Keen Australian captain (4) 6 Holy man begins conserving energy (7)

8 Writing's tedious side (8)

10 Dig up steed sculpted for fair (13) 13 Eccentric not eating buffet? (7) 15 Compact essay without mess (6) 18 Sullen or upset en masse? (6) 19 Troops landed on island, stopping insurgent plan (7) 20 Songbird, induced, called (6) 29 Dreamy Jack told to go (6) 30 States Spain opposed (6) 31 Make precious design, shell-like (6) 32 Attic developed into this modest joint, we're told (5)