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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 17 June, with two runners-up prizes of 115 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1263, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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2 The unclued lights (seven of two or more words) can be arranged into a timely quatrain, verifiable in Brewer. One clued light is a familiar phrase not found in Chambers.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Lobster fairy's cooked in church (8) 5 Small county personnel (6) 14 Sign the French love (3) 16 Strangely non-U circuit-judge (6) 17 It is not infection (5) 18 Loosen auntie's heart (5) 20 Puzzle one animal and another
(7)
22 Gets angry about very quiet repercussions (7) 24 A parrot disturbed proportionally (7, two words) 25 All the way into that evergreen
(5)
26 Indian court official with zone in Iran, maybe (5) 28 Prohibit red man going to court
(7)
31 Path through mountain fern (7) 33 Eagle moves around, say, for sheltered position (7, hyphened) 37 Call back about one shrub (5) 38 Mercury Azed returned to hospital (5) 39 Rowing enthusiast's double neckwear (6) 43 Earls pay out to deprive of mobility (8) DOWN 1 Watertight plea to make Britain social (13, two words, one hyphened) 2 Spontaneous remark from present-day party (5) 3 Loft rebuilt on the Spanish oil- rig accommodation (6) 4 Fix wheel (5) 6 Slender youth without you at hand (7) 7 Finishing off, you inspect trousseau for bride-to-be (6) 8 French copper's endless cinema film (4) 10 Beheaded next worker surviving (6) 13 Sorcerer embracing girl. That's right (8) 21 Lovers turn woman's heart. Awfully trite (8) 23 Boy suggests dance (7) 27 Rearrange in large form (7) 29 Metal engraving Lionel produced (6) 32 A talk is heard on pigment (6) 34 Origins of foreign action towards Western author (5) 35 Author's unknown verse (5) 36 Some sort of unfermented curd (4)
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