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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 November, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edi- tion of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1182, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC IN 2LL.

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The unclued lights (especially the title) have a common associa- tion. Their barred-off letters might make SUNDRY CURRIES, ED. Accents have been disregarded in two lights, and in their clues. Chambers excludes 39A, 6D and 15D.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Puppet — swoon holding English one (8) 5 Blinking wise guy is on heroin! (6) 9 Peel round a delicate inner seed coat (10) 14 English game creates sense of self-esteem (3) 16 Flatter Scottish female physician no longer (6) 17 Walk with immoral woman (5) 18 Like muscle? Gee whiz, oddly I do (5) 20 Vestibules depicted in a poor novel (7) 22 Secret doctrine's weird, taking in old fool (7) 26 Pound in Diss, maybe, for young herrings (5) 28 Head turned towards one (7) 31 Boy losing face with girl in the morning (7, hyphened) 33 One who pays no attention to Ron and Reg, I fancy (7) 37 Little boy from North in lake (5) 38 Little boy holding Eastern headgear (5) 40 Fell fire (3) 41 Piece of wood used by Kasparov and Short? (10) 42 Judge fools head of senate (6) 43 Against having bit of mozzarella in some soup (8) DOWN 1 Down below is little chap, one familiar with a sewer? (13, hyphened) 2 Port after one is perfect (5) 3 Epic poetry from English poet, note (6) 4 Welsh girl in nunnery sings (5) 7 I accept endless working emetic

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8 Dress coat (old-fashioned) (4) 10 Uruguay's best one, a perfect state (6) 11 They suckle feeble sharks (9, two words) 12 Season? This time's involved with cards (13, hyphened) 15 US essayist, from Maine, into translation of Norse (7) 19 Boss outside on English stallion (9, two words) 21 Mon Dieu! Penny's intoxicated in drug users' place (8, two words) 23 Nicked and locked up? (7) 27 Currents in strait, lots (7) 30 Golfer's losing his head in nettles (6) 32 Bakes bananas, dressing for bachelor's meat dish (6) 34 Conservative is cold old fish (5)