CROSSWORD 1337: 1337 by Dumpynose

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 1 December, 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 1337, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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In this year the first English 8 was created for the 1(two words). Other unclued lights (including three pairs) name it and three later examples.

Name Address ACROSS 4 Backbone problem infected SDP disciple (11, two words) 11 As oglers, ninety eye Latin girl changing (9)

12 Sour tempered and spineless I am not (5)

13 One sporting black hose never offended ... (11) 18 ... law-officer in knockout rubber anorak (7) 19 Anchors a thousand clippers (7) 22 Stop veteran wearing belt (6, two words) 23 Branched shrub amateur cuts (6) 24 Dropsy made 250 sick (5) 27 Margaret grabs a rope (5) 29 Maybe vine and its product, trustee holds (6) 31 Villain's racket in Niger (6) 34 Beef or fish left underdone (7) 35 Composer shops for pâté clutching bill of exchange (7) 38 Thirsty fish needing oxygen (3) 40 Figure a pile's lost in capital (11) 41 Plant in sunless block (5) 42 A snort men downed in bar (9) DOWN

2 Sail somebody hoisted in Peach State (5)

3 Audacious lamed pilot up for award (11, two words) 5 Throw up nothing escalating ID parades (7, hyphened) 6 Slight sin amended in October (6) 7 Penny searches for spots (6) 9 Harrow coach (4) 10 Sunburnt hat-plant dries out (9) 15 Up and down month (5)

16 Relations plot with lag .(11, three words)

17 Giving marks or docking same, teacher rules (11)

20 Spanish lad heard girl takes tea (9)

25 Fine constituents of Benin (5) 26 Fish close to desert island (3) 28 Life-force imbues popular Labour revolution (7) 32 Less poky space for audience (6)

33 City trades sauerkraut stocks (6) 36 Jostle in hell with fallen bishop (5)