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A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 5 July, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary% Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1114, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (one of three words, three of two words, and all in Brewer or The Oxford Companion to English Literature) have something in common. Their barred-off letters might make PEERS MEET AT AN RAC SOCIAL. 38A is a Turkish etymon in Chambers.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Chairs, i.e. seats for pros, poss- ibly (14)

9 Quantities of radiation about Mississippi (4) 11 Cross, cross about bridge part- ners (10) 15 Priest zany? Not one bit (6)

17 S5)tay with square agriculturalist (

18 Address the Spanish workers' guild (5)

21 Snakes concealed in poa I dis- turbed (7)

23 Turkish policeman hit Ascot, say, hard (7) 24 Girl to revise, wanting first in history (5) 26 Purloins 500 purlins (5) 28 Aircraftsman Cyril changed into man-made fibre (7) 32 Select jury member, one nob- bled by slippery type (7) 34 Plant growth back in odd pear, deadly disease (8) 36 Hindu's imported horse is best in North, right? (5) 38 Very good indeed, fine spiced dish (5) 39 Minute quantities for wild cats (6) 40 Part of earth's crust – I'm stuck. in it (4) 41 Map cluttered with rose-red cor- als (10) 42 Maple, one by river (4) DOWN

1 Is drop I'm changing a polyhedron? (8)

2 S. American trees among com- bustibles (5)

3 Jock's intended 4etting con- firmed, but Sunday s out (6)

4 Serve Scotch, sea-bream, about one (4) 5 Performing animal one brought round (7, two words) 7 Baby clothes mostly deep in colour – woollen fabric (6) 8 Brood about rising cost? Think it appropriate? (6, two words) 12 Keep up with act, she panted out (12, three words) 14 Dress at home (7) 16 Club, with girl, at noon (8) 19 Fiendish alibi Doc contrived (8) 27 Alga from river (Welsh) in spawn (7) 30 Coolness? Lab MP's agitated about nothing (6) 31 Zinc sulphide's to be mixed, we're told (6) 33 Father is hostile, initially, about the bishop of Rome (6) 35 Identify fish? Not I (5) 37 English A road to Bury (4)

Solution to 1111: Eleven 11 The unclued (9, 17, 37, 43, 15, 19, 21, 32) and undefined (5, 4, 36) lights make up eleven FIELDSMEN (11).

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