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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 5 June, 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 1464, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
immismammIlmamm mdmagmommumam
WOMMEmmilMAIMME MIUMINIMMIWIlmom
WimmEMMAIMMIld Immammammim womummummma_m mdminamammum dommgmommaimm Piummilmammom alimmammommilm wommillammilim
MmidoWm mmuilmomm ammo= mom The unclued lights are of a kind. Each clue contains one misprint- !El letter in the definition part; corrections of misprints (thirty-six in all) spell a further six items of the same kind.
Name Address.. ACROSS 1 Santa's beginning, thoroughly urgent, holding sack (11) 7 Peke starts to jump and bark (3) 11 Couple of names in noble cast 13 Convict around end of dinner being gross (7)
16 Saboteur is without question fit (5)
20 Old tower was of use, mostly (6) 21 Moor (fretful one) quietly followed by official with no end of rancour (5) 22 Tense soldiers sheltered by oaks reviewed swards (7) 27 Lies broadcast by institute about emission (7) 29 A past operation securing American aims (5) 30 Lumber right into trap (6) 32 Leases vessel in Nova Scotia (5) 34 Cops trained PC, shy one (6) 36 Dad is holding last bit of wrapper? Pastille was there (5)
37 Freud? Man, enthralling man 5)
( 38 Poem about cross note recalled withdrawal of lover? (7) 39 Loan, simple, including silver (6) 40 Round Utah on roan (3) 41 Contemptibly ministers ordered tinsel to be seized by puritans (11) DOWN
2 Real toper (no learner) racked rum up (8) 3 Eat, revel wildly and start to enjoy life again (9, hyphened) 5 Piece of grass in new ad, nice once mowed (7)
6 Few surfers love being surrounded by gross, topless tourists (8) 7 Judge and measure up clock (5) 8 Mapped plot around lake (4) 9 Boots as once designed (6) 10 What can lay a house low - some alarming anarchy? (5) 14 Speculator rolls logs (12, hyphened) 19 Lecturer in peculiar frenetic society speaks on skin? (10) 23 Vehicle might, set up, go jauntily in Scotland (8, hyphened) 25 Ram, hot in Cyprus, dozed (6)
26 Fool, commander and I speak (7) 28 Neat principal, one far from brawny (6)
31 Compass knight likes (5) 33 Deer for example brought up and kept by colonist? (5)
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