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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 20 October, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1331, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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Unclued l'ghts (one of three words, one of two) Include three pairs suggesting the components of a famous 33/9, whose home is clued without definition. Ignore two apostrophes.
Name Address ACROSS 11 Not liberal to release a little (10) 13 Quarter queen in islet (4) 15 F or T occurs as consonant (6) 17 Wind certainly whirls round Uruguay (5) 18 Goliath getting skinned (5) 21 PM beheaded citizen (7) 23 Hazard snaring swells: dandy. fever? (7) 24 Orange-lily's opulent sucker (5) 26 Peggy's gross character (5) 28 Maturing emperor finishes off rebel (7) 32 More critical father checks sloppy Susie (7) 34 Canton University admits Bram
(8)
36 Unsmiling star (5) 38 Cloudy mountain about for aeons (5) 39 Save one pound by end of sales (6) 40 Enlarge section of breeches (4) 41 Duplication of creatine reproduced in rhenium (10) 43 Blue's to play this with stony amusement (14, three words) DOWN 1 Idling prince absent fishing (8) 2 Popular paint one's into (5) 3 Nose left in shark (6) 5 Rag couples heard drumbeats
(7)
6 Sweety in love cheers demoiselles (7) 7 Too much stuffing plumper girl (6) 8 They'll obey us in republic (6, hyphened) 10 She's up in tree with queens buzzing (12) 12 Inn MP suggests? (12, two words) 14 Pot or jug awaits me (7, two words) 16 Ubiquity finesser cultivated (8) 19 Particles of palm sand eel swallows (8) 25 Discover aches in chests (8) 27 Coins grasping mater hoards (7) 29 Minstrel playing melange (7) 31 Cop seizes gold lifted in caper (6) 35 Nab shy AC to keep records (5) 37 Millstone carrier's zest (4)
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