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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 14 February, 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 1144, 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 12 Drug affecting depression, swap- ping partners (10) 13 On display around entrance halls 14 pades won back by employee for winter construction (7) 15 That girl's E-numbers, it's said, as previously (I0) 16 Tearing out rock (7) 20 Emblem lettering (4) 22 Heavy wagon holding bits of rough yellow powder (7) 23 Split up in 11 (4) 24 Back up precautionary parade (7, hyphened or two words) 26 Introduce irrelevancies about Reds and GIs (7) 31 Take in idiotic swimmer (7) 34 Occupied .a young woman (4, two words) 36 Lies next to a disc-jockey at love-ins (7) 38 Deserted road with train crashing, slowing down (10) 39 Escape sailors studied, is men- tioned (7) 40 Humble friar's weight (5) 41 Latin fire-raisers said to be thieves (10) 42 Unvaried — underburnt with hint of yellow (6) 43 Maths ace rewrote diagrammatic outlines (8) DOWN 2 Radio set broadcasting to minor planet (8) 3 One instrument without circle of bees (5) 4 Crossed out obstruction during act (7)

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7 Cricketer embracing fellow Scot- tish sportsman (6) 8 Approaches listener between Poles (5.) 9 Vague mission almost suited great commander (13) 1() Australians portsman with mari- juana as fodder (13, hyphened) 11 Capital disaster after midnight: a fir-tree snapped (9, two words) 19 Systems of signs state time dur- ing races (9) 21 Father Knight raised capital (5) 25 It's not wrong including the same oral expert (8) 27 Secluded and hot in the Seychel- les (3) 28 How like tin-cans? (7) 32 French area harbouring one cab (6) 33 Year end is over, boy (6) 37 Belief in God is manifest (5)