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CROSSWORD

10, A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 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 1468, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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39 41 The unclued lights are connected by a theme. Elsewhere, Chambers does not list four proper names or a place name.

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ACROSS

1 Diving gear — novice wears it (5) 4 Janitor, cold beside candle (9)

11 Expression from one, one in party at mass (5) 12 Boat almost left with wrong load

(7)

15 50 in good Scottish hall (5) 16 Spigot part contains uranium (6)

21 Painter in London district's responsible for bruises (8)

22 Stage offers no lead for fictional inspector (7) 24 Protection given by eastern soldiers (4) 25 Old gossip's listening, showing no heart (4) 27 Film producer, old character after riches (7) 28 Last? Boy's going round in circles

(8)

33 Physiologist, one leaving ballerina (6) 34 European, the last character to live in UK (5) 35 Astronomer Royal — inquisitive, duke recalled (5) 38 Mislead don (5, 2 words) 39 Harshness shown by ten crying off after start of season (10) DOWN

1 They had washboards etc. on sale on board craft (13, 2 words)

2 Caught a French duke pocketing a windfall (6) 4 Mineral — it's found in wax (6) 5 Welsh boy in Glasgow, engaged (4) 6 Evil one gets sack in French company (7) 7 Duke in trouble married at once (5, 2 words) 10 Annoyed with one lad over approach of the advertising industry (13, 2 words) 15 Joke about new lecturer, first from Yale, awkwardly built (6) 17 Note — bit of the commission (6) 18 Left one ahead of gas explosion in Sumatra (6) 19 Old boy turned up with first-rate biographer (7) 23 Strong burst, characteristic of races for Zatopek (8) 26 Part exchange, awfully dear in money (7, hyphened) 29 Witches' brew? One certain to get me spinning (6) 30 Guarantee one's support (6) 31 Do a scowl in anguish (6) 32 Restrain leader of yobbos, vio- lent (5) 36 Shame about German mark (4)