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Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 31 July, 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 1472, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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2 • 43 The unclued lights (four of two words), individually or as pairs (with 10 doing double duty) are of a kind.

Name Address ACROSS

1 I left new Aussie group of dissenters getting used to things (12)

14 During the morning I direct (3) 17 Payments for tears (5) 18 Road out East for part of fugue

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19 Spenser penetrated fruit with tip of tongue (6) 22 Hikers roaming making call once (6)

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leading dancer competed (5) 26 Jurassic creature gets back round outskirts of Saumur (9) 29 One late variation of spore-case clusters (5) 31 Crustacean: one with very good shell (6) 36 Punishment, say. Surely not, on reflection (7) 38 Fish-frame (5) 39 Spenser's picture of sun-god, having characteristic tenor (8) 42 Architect with name like Henry (4) 43 Wrangler's follower's mere position, maybe (12, two words) DOWN

2 Mole wishes change, now and then (10)

3 Releases one amongst classical canons (7) 4 Lumberjack's cut tail off German pelts (5) 5 One has to damage aunt's new plant (9) 6 Fly is French twice over (6) 7 Class system (5) 8 Forward punched, no use (4) 11 Factory worker gets the bird for safety support (8) 13 Corporealist turned out like an official anatomist (12) 16 Character in The Talisman (3) 19 Like a cone of alpine make-up (6) 20 Old bags: sure to split (6) 21 Pure salmon — ingredients for nerve-cell's living matter (10) 23 Fresh green course reflected such tone (9) 25 Pasque-flower growing originally in open land (8) 28 Spenser's moving pony's tail around with worker (7) 30 Group of alphabets enlarge a brain (no odd ones) (6) 32 Hail upset girl (3) 33 Oblivion from Franco-English articles (5)

35 I won't be torn asunder (5, two words)

37 Points out car and is inaccurate (4)