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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 2 November, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the new Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary% Entries to: Crossword 1384, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Six unclued lights are varieties of 15D. One of them, as Brewer confirms, was liable to be upset by the 39 (hyphened). Might this justify terming the latter, in modern parlance, 15D-15A?

Name Address ACROSS 1 Item priest puts on crib, with thanks (5) 10 Saw mite pinching soft part of hand (10) 12 Retriever turned head to grab unusual bone (7, hyphened) 14 Celts in tussle, ages back (5) 16 Harmonised with silver pipe? (6) 22 Feet ending in elegant heels (8) 23 Verse form society in east developed (7) 24 Scotch sojourn (4) 27 Split team nearly failing (7) 29 Real coup broadcast covers (8) 34 Weighty jar, by the sound of it 37 Beach ach hut not entirely commonplace east of California 38 Weird ird trio'll stay in place yielding spirits (10) 40 Speaker's bit quiet (5)

DOWN

1 Pity moonscape is sadly lacking energy (10) 2 Ape taking most of fruit (5) 3 Moderate mood (6) 4 Stage is occupied by a boy: Oliver, say? (7) 5 Pace at sea, rounding Cuba, on board is welcome (10) 6 Patricians when apprehending riots worried (7) 7 Credit rating to support lord mostly going up (5) 8 Mysterious things toes disturbed on heath (9) 9 Badgers and horses (4)

13 Agent, seizing chance, searched (7)

17 Slice of meat that's larded and in reserve, stored by wife (10)

18 Tipped favourite lazily, without enthusiasm (7)

19 Protest from fool, always knocked back (10) 20 Go through half of oniony sausage (9) 21 Puma perhaps from Guatemala getting into scrap (6, two words) 26 Completely unique part trainer has on ground? (7) 28 Edits revolutionary book (7) 30 Dismal end of dubious card game (6) 31 People other than clerics Italy affected (5)

33 Foot belonging to fashion icon (5)

34 Fly from dynasty after rising (4)