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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 June, with two runners-up Prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1364, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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A pair, a trio and a pair of unclued lights suggest the component Parts of lit which might aptly describe a light clued without defi- nition.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Taxis plied, velocity constant (4) 11 Rhino, rogue male, nearing . . . run away (10) 14 Centre lost etchers' works, cut away (6) 17 Male enters regular signature (5) 18 Female badger nipped shrub (5) 20 Homer's jar for petals (7) 21 Fail to answer odd expletive (7) 24 Ten old fish died heading west

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25 City stars in conversation (5) 27 Rector blocks worthless food shop (7) 30 Sharper cheese repelled judge )

32 (7 Hospital with rusting radiators? (7 36 Dr)

unken sailor dropping round for money (5) 37 Animal, brown, is shifting (5) 38 Inflame purist, muffing it (6, two words) 40 Frozen spot in Timon's cave I see cat shivering (10) 41 Wonderful stews European ingested (4) 42 Larder's hidden, nothing's cooked (14, three words) DOWN 1 Loud sort sucks lemon (5) 2 Echo of Michelangelo (5) 3 Theresa, not a different girl (6) 4 Party with new bird (5) 5 Short etiolated lass (7) 6 Approached poisoned Dane, attention gripped (7) 7 Dislike what sewer holds (6) 13 Number of pieces of silver Society charges, ready to drink

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16 Side of face in collapse, lacking positive enzyme (11) 19 List includes commercial vehicle

21 B) ig bottle alto gets in pub (9) 22 Gas swathes battleground,

symbol of death (7)

26 Certain grease permeates stain 7)

( 28 Laments about exams one fails 29 Bo (7) d keen on nameless spirit (6) 31 Prepare to go via bridge (6) 34 Cross writer cut word on left- hand page (5) 35 Stall and come to a stop (5)