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A first prize of 130 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 28 August, with two runners-up prizes of 120 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1476, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each clue contains a rogue i.e. superfluous) word. First and last letters of these rogues, in clue order, spell out 11 words; these provide confirmation that ten unclued lights (all verified by Chambers; one plural), and the title, are 30A (two words).

Name Address ACROSS 6 Tedious speaker who got up in prize ring (6) 11 Old book on college (quoted around Academy) composed of fragments (10) 13 I see that loggia is deserted, overgrown? (5) 14 Is cake in this rack Mexican? (8) 16 Pick up good price list (5) 17 Prompt note about litchi in test (7) 19 Courier starts to fit each china trinket in car (9) 22 Prince curtailed foolhardy nepotism (3) 23 Spider genus one in field ignores (6) 26 Measures strange entity (3) 32 Heartless guy, in earnest, socks

3loser (7) 3 Positive evidence about sturdy leader of some apes (7)

35 Fruit in mean detail analysed (5) 36 Father stole icon, scared (8) 37 Started prohibition around Georgia for example (5) 38 Cannes video soul distributed by agreement (10)

39 Showed care in first of examina- tions of part of tongue (6)

DOWN 1 Lad with awful prep trudged in, perhaps (14) 2 Side heading for regatta offered farewell before bearing south (7)

3 Barge worker ordered king-size meal in house (7)

5 Said tide damaged platform (4) 7 Apparently Queen, flanked by representatives, decorates admiral again? (8) 8 Folding structures in cars I only peruse curiously (11) 9 Salt lake enthrals romantic fool

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10 Naughty scenes, on air, official can survey (14)

15 Spring in East Fife's divine? (4)

16 Goddess, not raised to accept paltry drink, partaking of wine (11, three words) 20 Dialect in Korea that's hidden (4) 25 Storm spoils nearly all Australian wine (7) 27 Past elder, mark elusive climbing plant (7) 28 Nothing greater, lines about divine soul, eccentric (7) 29 Library of Congress contains your Oahu island poem (5) 31 Giving name, in active service (6)