CROSSWORD

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 August, 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 1474, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each unclued light is linked with a number [lA (three words) + 13 + 29 + 37] x [24 + 25] x 17 = 33. Brewer's verifies 1A, 24 and 29.

Name Address ACROSS

9 Very acceptable for very many years (4)

11 Controlled emotionality precludes my turning pale (10) 12 Heartless lecher switched round rugs (4) 14 Colour of ape, close to ochre (6) 18 Railroad behind alamode maison de ville (5) 20 Lettuce for calf? (7) 21 RI a little interrupted after chaplain baptised child (7)

23 It likewise splits single nuclide (7)

27 Corner new songster after tenor's escape (7) 30 Best among circuits for computers (7) 32 Frost set back Greek character over in Dubai? (7) 36 Man of short span (5) 38 Rustics scholar tricks (6) 39 Indefinite quantity of wood (4) 40 Sucker's one forbidden to have fun unending (10) 41 Comedy needing the speed of light to succeed (4) 42 Don Juan's characteristic insomnia is admitted (14) DOWN

1 Accepts note for dispatch (5)

2 Almost rational woman (5) 3 Pickled Barney is burning (6) 4 Bill's enormous for sherries (5) 5 Etonian corrected antitrinitarian

(7)

6 Servants very earnest keeping time (7) 7 Double star (6) 8 Activates even soldiers in reserve (9) 10 Poems of base importance by active witch (11)

15 Bowmen from Arabia curse us (8)

16 Smoother fish Peter Pan pickled (11, hyphened) 19 Bohemian Paris, so right for artist (8) 21 Diner with roast served up in Capri? (9, two words) 22 Wigged debater in bad case (7) 26 Capricious euthanasy Utah banned for mammals (7) 28 Indigent wandering European left unfed (7) 31 Tough puzzles or sitters? (6) 34 Eat flies regularly, spinning . . . these? (5) 35 Equid conveys male poet's corpse (5)