CROSSWORD A first prize of £20 and a bottle of

Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 7 December, 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 1086, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS

1 Play a role for one cent, out of

consideration (8, three words) 8 Thoroughly search county with doctor (4) 12 Starting picnic at ten in court- yard (5') 14 London thoroughfare having words) of these folks (7, two

ds)

16 Old tale of ill-starred exploits (4) 17 Calm Liberal giving support (5)

18 Stop youth-leader appearing in Times Review (6) 22 pSuknint-doirr is one putting gold in

23 Most fiery revolutionary bout in middle of fighting (7) 24 Supercilious tycoons caught out badly (6) 25 Pop-singer's rocks (6) 27 Agrees to reduce germs; that's sound! (7) 29 Former Oxford undergraduate is a lawyer's clerk (8) 33 Pet having bell and whip (6, hyphened) 34 Prince reckons all jemadars are Hindu leaders(5) 35 Spell 'rhythm' (4) 37 Violent doctor having wine, gets caught (7) 38 Slope with a cross (5) 39 Photo's grainy quality showing fat-head was first in (12) 40 Footwear or hose? (4) DOWN

1 Put a seal on it, when removed from fitting (6)

2 Bird and what it should avoid in Paris! (4) 3 Plant in portal is man-made (6) 4 Direct speech (7) 7 Each throne's remade for chief support ( 1 I , hyphened) 8 Shift about 1 March (5) 9 Man silences Eskimo dogs (9) 10 Little paper ornament (6) 15 Sack boxer; tell him to 'go to blazes' (11, hyphened) 19 Area of land equals mire, maybe (10, two words) 21 Ancient Greek commander fixed point on border (9) 26 Sea lavender genus resting on tip of esplanade (7) 28 Terrace prepared for party- provider (7) 31 Strain of teacher missing motor-

32 Mottled porcelain losing base (5)

36 Expressing surprise of state award (4)

Solution to 1083: A byte of the apple

The unclued lights ( I , 17, 26, 41A and 5, 7, 25, 28, 33D) are terms used in computing.

First prize: Kenneth Hampson, Norwich; Runners-up: Peter Bar- low, Wigan; Geoff Jones, Abing- don.