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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 13 December, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1137, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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35 The title and the unclued lights ('ncluding two plurals, two participles, and three disregarded hyphens) have something in common.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Maybe about hour stuck in one
European motorway (8)
8 Fluster, following drink (4) 12 Feeble, sick in Seychelles (5) 14 Boors, about 50, in nuclei (7) 16 University youth's back in Orca- dian estate (4) 17 Entrance? I allow North in (5) 18 Married Bury's inventor? (6) 22 Blasts fiddle and swindles (8) 23 Irritating lass, Heather? (7) 24 Ploughman has lines in row (6) 27 Cutting note on a whistle (7) 29 US birds scour at random, covering most of ground (8) 33 Main branch, I see, of hypothal- amic system (6) 34 Put back, put back clock? (5) 35 Mac's odd feature of sporran (4) 37 Periodical allowance, grant, without gratuity (7) 38 Antiques, just short of excell- ence (5) 40 Parched, needing the drink? Right (4) 41 A pike with head in old condi- tion (8) DOWN
1 Mounting confusion in one English don (6)
2 Single, to marry? Not quite (4) 3 Small birds, note, up in woods — not British (6) 4 Our lean produces protein (7) 6 A romance grips the Parisienne, one who never laughs (7) 8 Like marshes? France has some, it's said (5) 9 Causes of abnormal reactions? Rotten greens, after all (9) 15 Sun-worshippers, male, after- wards covered in mixed oils (11) 20 Remove gun from carriage, one flexible (8) 26 Stonework native gets right in a month (7) 28 Blow up general in error (7) 29 Dogs on American racecourse 6) 30 eveloping no main membrane holding embryo (6) 32 Reject HM's musician (5) 36 Indians scalped old European invaders? (4)
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