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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 1 July, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1265, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Could 1D collectively define the other unclued lights associated with 3D? Ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Excellent try (5)

10 Coronaries, thanks to besom's rollicking (10) 11 Old Norse bothy catching sun overhead (6)

12 Society analyst is not so thick (7)

14Deliberate style in speech (5) 15 Queen in white vestment backing direction for prayer (5) 16 Draw Dutch flag navy's flying (6) 22 Tisane, rum and limitless arak make healing liquids (8) 23 One nicking from church caught by observer (7) 24 Sin of men vying? (4) 25 Idler celebrities retire (4) 29 Having stalk that doesn't start to whiten (8) 32No cute dresses in green (6) 36 Weighty Emperor fills house's interior (7) 37 All About Eve? Teenagers could take it (6, two words) 38 Fry's getting a dramatist aboard US carriages (10, hyphened) 40 Money in low note (5)

DOWN

2Sail along or row (5) 4 Cope poorly curbing difficulty climbing ladder (7) 5 I'm no unreasonable person stifling independence and general equality (10) 6 Hoop-shaped yet mutant gametic fern (7) 7Bard's visionary children (5)

8 Bird has carried on with libertine (9)

9 Bad year for wild cat (4) 13 Cape Town hooligans hang

about round (7)

15 Aberdonian girl comprehends unknown card game (6) 17 Clerks with no time to call in coating suppliers (10)

18 Ruler holds reduced court I hold means of access — (7, hyphened)

20 Pole with a tin can splashing rubbery stuff (9) Man 21 M gives offence keeping bits of horseflesh in larder (6) 26 One luncheon voucher held by very classy city regulator (7)

28 Lead lost, maybe Olympics champion produces worst throw (7, hyphened)

31Walking fish tour headland (5)

33 Bunch of mauve alyssum, of iris etc. (5)

34 Earth covers acceptable deceased (4)