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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 30 March, 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 1353, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (eight of two or more words) can be arranged (with two lights combining to form one word) into a quotation ver- ifiable in the ODQ.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Antelope or tailless wader (5) 4 A vehicle sent out black fluids 9 Agree ree to hire charge for meeting at same point (10) 11 Match stick (5) 12 Please mend the pier (7) 15 Dubious outburst from the water about Saints (5) 16 State school embraced physics instrument (6) 21 OT king got the measure of wine (8) 22 Linguistic position of Latin quotation and Middle English note (7) 24 Casserole, or tart? (4) 25 OT king rejected some firm orders (4) 27 West African trees round others (not English) (7) 28 Price-fixer phones three times 33 Fates tes backed island attack, almost (6) 34 Novelist swapped old money for new for bird (5) 35 Fine meal served for Milton's lady (7) 37 Live at hospital a little while (7) 40 Stop treating veal from the Middle Ages (9) 41 1 had returned during a party. Bye-bye! (5) DOWN 2 Tayler developed property (6) 4 Fruit and cereal during exam (6) 5 Amazonian Indian suggesting small coin (4) 6 Amount owing from annual return builds up (7) 15 Toy duck left duck (6) 17 Jock started to eat quince at Arab hill (6) 20 Vetch in low island for coarse cloth (6) 23 Staying-power required for a `two-step'? (8) 29 From the stomach of Thomas Allen (6) 30 New Oldie's kept in store (6) 31 One Scottish hill surrounded by motorway land (6) 32 Mishap beheaded unfortunate cavalryman (5) 36 31 days absent. An illusion! (4)