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GRAHAM'S PORT

GRAHAM'S

PORT

1162: Mind them!

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 20 June, 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 1162, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued across lights are of a kind, as are the unclued down lights; in short, they are connected. Elsewhere ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Set forth for Maine, say (5) 4 Tory pursuits and victories (9) 9 Back out into barrow. That's deafening (10) 12 Break in foot requiring USA care (7) 16 Part of a printing-press de- bauchee held round state (6) 21 Posh lieutenant with one chum at final (8) 22 Native fair arranged by jail (7) 24 Noise of first-year bird? (4) 25 Bracken from Mount Ararat (4) 28 Signs of rust may ruin seed (8) 33 Hearsay giving droll time for Cockneys (6) 34 One male taking notice in front

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35 ourt, in anticipation (5) 37 Small people caught in payments 38 erhaps one month to live (5) 40 Political stirrers attacking Goa Strait (9)

41 Amateur Scot backing skunks (5) DOWN Somehow mehow assure a putter to charge unduly (13)

2 Support journey to outskirts of Oxford (6) 3 Synchronising to the right channel? (6) 4 Hints about five English wine- vats (6) 5 Circular cover smelling badly (4) 7 Look girl up for antiseptic (5) 8 Menace Mad Hatter with measure (8) 10 Brand gets exchanged around forest produce farms (13, hyphened) 15 Snoop round city convent (6) 17 Watch this horse (6) 18 Pass out, please (6) 19 Curse married girl (7) 20 Practised crystal-gazing ordering ciders (6) 23 Doing well without Thursday's money (8) 26 Peasant breaking foot in US (7) 29 Comes a cropper, getting nothing in exam (6) 30 Mutual exchange over letters?

32 erman eight following youth- leader's boat (5) 36 Wild goat and wild hart (4)