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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 15 August, 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 1170, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The seven other unclued lights are 4A 15A Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Refined choir holds forth (5) 9 Very strange rite with incense in becoming glass (10) 12 Panic as tiger bristles (7) 14 Fan backing up Norway with spirit (5) 16 Compiles about 100 orders (6)

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t's endless play (4) 28 Love having mane behind shoulder-blade? (8) 33 Look over lake to Venetian island (6) 34 Ever circling lark dropping extremity of wing (5) 35 Giant alien vessel (5) 37 Ludicrous nark frames relative 38 Lord rd for example in fiction (5) 39 Stout heart of Angelic Doctor concerning reason (10) 40 Trick inept code crackers (9) 41 Soft, in such a manner as ten- derloin (5) DOWN 1 In which one gets free of one's racy sin? (13) 2 Ring I had, in precious metal it looks like gold (6) 4 Jock's boldly about to start (6) 5 Leaders to attempt ending of New Age (4) 6 Thus tax firm fixed up books (7) 7 Wing's given no soft bump on head (5) 8 Seaweed, a scrap consumed by a fish (8, hyphened) 10 Stimuli under hypnosis, with a loosening of his tense ego sec- onds later (13) 13 Bullfighter's craving to perform right (7) 15 What's opposed to authority where synod has gathered? (6) 17 Layers of plot wanting gem (6) 18 Shake and shatter (6) 19 Walls round wells pulsate in a quake (7) 20 Indian pillar rising in air like a spire (6) 26 Who's in crew under ship's offi- cer? (7) 29 Stir or spin about (6) 31 Brand new imagist? Not I (6) 36 Error of party politics (4)