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GRAHAM'S

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1155: W is for water by Ascot

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 May, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1155, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued 1 ghts (four of two words, including 34/35) are of a kind. Their barred-off letters might form: WHY, WHY CABLE? WE SHOULD CALL HER IN INN. Chambers excludes them, and also 26D.

Name Address ACROSS 8 Off course after second of cala- mities (4) 10 Scene doubly cracked in ageing process (10) 12 Reversed again (4) 14 Odd set includes tiny little cases

16 (6 Gr)

eek character portrayed in some gallery (5) 17 A beloved one, Irish, knocked back Spanish wine (5) 20 Head of estate following will? Yes, perhaps (7) 21 Small sole for each shoe (7) 24 Mac's swayed Scandinavian, it's said (5) 25 One near steamship in Gulf (5) 27 Ruler in capital holding republic back (7) 30 Cannabis withdrawal? Bad omen about drug (7) 32 Ingredient central to chess pieces in check (7) 36 Expression of disgust following the Parisienne's guffaw (5) 37 Buckthorn hedge set back with ducks behind (5) 38 Just holding drill in public (6) 39 Even I can make a snowman?

41 (4 Ra)

m's dam (4) 42 People only pry given new look synthetic material (13) DOWN 2 Wild beast wasting away (5) 3 Les (no learner) has vehicle parking on steep slope (6) 4 Mollusc in second catch (5) 5 Groups of eight in time entering old grottos (7) 6 Rock singers off-key, right off (6) 11 Reach in river for genus of water plants (6) 13 Daggers in rucks, we hear (7) 18 He demolished roof-tree former- ly (10) 19 I see no MP sporting badge (8) 21 Thoroughly search cheat (9, two words) 22 Jock's greasy, making Indian chary (7) 26 Poet in frail boat you found capsizing (7) 28 Bailment mother's accepted as usual, initially (6) 29 African lion round about (6) 31 Dread going in to examine place where skin's treated (6) 33 Hut in one dark place, un- finished (5)