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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 7 March, 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 1147, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' Service. ACROSS 4 Administrative rank of power: referee changes pitches (11) 14 Band remains after Sabbath (4) 15 Beer festival of old (3) 18 Religious adherent confusing saint with sailor included (7) 19 Shakespeare's midnight, one or two? (7, hyphened) 22 Leave uninhabited (6) 23 Motor needing repair: no dyna- mo initially (6) 27 Many times decimalised (5) 29 Passive Irishman and lout cut short (6) 31 Furnished with jacket and trous- ers? (6) 34 A Minoan overturning collection of everything (7) 35 Roman historian backing dicta- tor in street (7) 38 Indirect – via England (3) 39 River rising from Moorish plain ) 41 Backward posh Indian (5) 43 Ogles Katey – seems a bit per- plexed (11, three words) DOWN 1 Adam or Eve or I (11, two words) 2 Emperors tailed as a precaution 0 5 shoe of Jock (7)

Rugby Union tourist took in left 'Hamlet' produced in Greater London (6) 7 Interferometer from European stock (6)

8 Heath embracing Thora sup- ported the seconder (7) 9 Lad holding love, willingly (4) 10 Sincere GI moving with equal vigour (9) 17 Target of a tube is grotesque form o' death (11) 21 Short literary work: book ten (3) 25 Reorganise half the plant (5) 26 Old path of stone by yard (3) 28 Shapely old iron: one for the States (7) 30 Absence of an organ confused pal on the continent (7) 32 Refuse any changes, for example (6, hyphened) 33 These views when including ack- nowledgement of debt would be another unclued light (6) 36 Rate the sea's rising (5) 37 Border-line (4)