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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 August, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1221, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (including two of two words) are of a kind, ver- ifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Fleet bird (5) 4 A poet rang about support (9) 9 Barnacles making semi-circle around pier. Help rejected (10) 11 Applause from the City — somewhat later (5) 12 Fish entirely without beer (7) 15 Home of chap in outskirts of

Airdrie (5) 16 Model daily (6) 24 Somebody's numbers (4) 25 Graduate and sailor give

address to Queen (4) 27 Bad fog's hid small shark (7) 28 Excellent part of speech backed

by lines in Mass's book (8) 33 Native returned: he had eaten

(6) ,34

Anything rejected in the

Kenilworth Guardian (5) 35 Awning hard by cultivated ground (5) 37 Trickery lacking significance, we're told (7) 38 Instrument of torture beckoned

(5)

40 European court in glade around tree (9) 41 Muscle and action included, accordingly (5) DOWN 1 Cell-agent's upset by broken moat. Damn! (13) 3 Flames engulf a cold cab (6) 4 Snoop around city convent (6) 5 Language of Osaka, in use (4) 6 Overturned press in art work (7) 7 Writer holds love-note for daughter of Tantalus (5) 10 Hidden among hatches in Scotland, prepare for action (13, three words) 15 Repay 31, somehow (6) 17 18 Guides with the morning off boats (6) New decal includes touch of yellow and scarlet colouring (6, hyphened) 19 Scottish furniture visible (7) 20 Evangelic Catholic appears after

Feb 28th (6) 23 Jewish cap and mural Kay

redesigned (8) 29 Not informed about Luton

director (6) 30 Evaluate Jenny? (6) 32 Hut's tubular framework is

unfinished (5) 36 Fine round symbolic design (4)

Solution to 1218: Call me

The unclued ights were birds whose names are im.tative of their call.

First prize: A.J. Ford, Potters Bar, Herts. Runners-up: Ian Wainwright, Tetbury, Gloucestershire; S. Hines, Birmingham.