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CROSSWORD 1153: Men of letters by Doc

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 April, 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 1153, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued l'ghts are of a kind – and also have a common peculiarity to which the title alludes. Each is thus one word and more. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe and four hyphens.

Name Address ACROSS 1 It indicates the possessor evict- ing with ease, maybe (12, two words) 10 Highland festivals inappropriate for Rockers? (4) 14 Low emotional state, endlessly 15 Side benefit (8)

17 Jack and little Catherine (5) 19 Speaking of river hurdles (6)

22 Gardener with work in for cask- maker (6) 24 Tip of celery with solid edible stalk (5) 26 Crew having faith about night- time signal (9) 27 Stylish manner at the hairpin bend (9, two words) 29 Time to sit back and take one (5) 31 Where doves first return to coo, in Ayr (6) 34 Tactless district revolutionary 36 List including love-bird (7) 38 Magistrates' snouts (5) 40 Dolt round about Florida (3) 41 Love-letter by river, it's said, for bugle (10) 42 & 32 Walks over relation (7) DOWN 2 Cell game with lover of matters Chinese (10) 3 I provided lettering for data pre- sentation (7) 4 Blockhead coming up to one Princess (5) 6 Golf-clubs suggested by factions (6) 7 Steal a ball (5) 8 Lyre's highest note was not the seventh one (4) 9 Chairwoman dwelling in Peru on boat (12) 16 Home in West Yorkshire (3) 19 Page is turned for dugong (6) 20 Stupid American comes out ab- out end of March (6) 23 Found fuel from lorry embedded in earth (9, two words) 25 Plane and one car crashing on crowd (8) 28 Wind of change: treason! (7) 30 Jump up with half the lamb-stew 32 See 42 (3) 33 Was out one mile floating (5) 35 Car firm from Munich, on day- work (5) 37 Pensioners active during military movements (4)