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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 5 May, 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 1358, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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`7' (four words), but skilled in 37, said '4' (four words), bu pre- sumably not to 14/21, 2/30D or a 29. Elsewhere ignore two accents.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Gently mature celery (8) 8 Rocket causing pain in the ears 12 Newly wly supplied sheep pen produced cracks (10, hyphened) 13 Casting distracted male denied lead (6) 15 Force promise from shifty Linda to confess (8, two words) 18 Georgia sorted oik who'd gauche nature (9) 19 Dumpynose lighten heady liquor? (9) 20 Start off very well behaved (4) 24 Slight fan trails god (6) 27 Shrub aged 25 spreads over (6) 30 Arab in very black linen covering (4) 32 Dine ,at Maxim's? As vast classy swell ... (9) 34 ...with no control, you should ------- 38 Route ( fr) om central Omagh confused most of Ireland (7, hyphened) 39 Regime escapist? (6) 40 Impertinent Irish troops decamp (10) 41 Anthropoid apocryphal, still and for ever (4) 42 Sectarian dwarf accepts Hell (8) DOWN 1 Especially many breaking hearts for Doris? (8, two words) 3 Girl in garland youth trimmed

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5 One week bog-myrtle covers part of tub (7) 6 Pulled up legumes will smother choice plant no longer (8) 9 Codicil's lyrical (4) 10 Explosive priest upset at breaches (6) 11 Therapy such as oboe music absorbs millions (6) 16 Rush to adjust ballerina's first tutu? (5) 17 Poet lacking depth climbs mountain (4) 22 Assumed harp's been mistuned by learner (5) 23 Sally's only paintbrush (8, hyphened) 25 Erected some 600 yards of fencer's material (4) 26 Turk's standard Continental breakfast (8) 28 What suitable stocking female navy wears could be (7, hyphened) 31 Greek show good for run (6) 33 Pedigree budges priest caged (6) 35 Seize island in Atlantic (5) 36 Backbone in lamb (4)