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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 21 December, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1391, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC IN 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Tack red-tapist takes twice in regulation of chips (12, two words) 10 Tribune's nasty delivery in speech (4) 14 Academician jollies member (3) 15 Witness absolute abstainer with alcoholic compound (8) 19 Teaching the French group (6) 22 Losing head, sea lion vacillates like a weathercock (6) 26 She tigers savaged one in Coliseum? (9) 27 Street easily absorbs air shaft

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29 Valentine's movements (5) 31 Ball? League soccer legend's hogging it (6) 34 Rookie loses lire in racket (6) 36 Embraces in early English darkness (7) 38 Houseless Danish student's allowance (5) 39 Just essayist receives universal song of praise (8) 40 Bird from Romania (3) 41 Enthusiasm of neat niece running after European (10) 42 Heavy blow from smacker (4) 43 Bird's illness, drizzle heralds (12, hyphened) DOWN

2 Chopper wounded Chile selector (10)

3 Cook salmon and whelk (7) 4 A zebu chewed shrub (5) 5 Drop into grave looking meeting (9) 6 Lances nasty boils? (6) 7 Fibre from tare eyot holds (5)

8 Schooner beat to windward in sound (4)

9 Avowal of a saint ever so mystical (12) 11 Lost legman hugs lane navigator (8) 16 Eve's eyes (3) 20 Tuck the fish swallows (6) 21 Odd sized Elsie is fitted out with special train (10) 23 Pilgrim prioress rose (9) 25 language not dead, deployed in the law (8, two words) 30 Georgia is drunk, like Fanny? (6)

32 I shall become difficult (3)

35 Repealed statute in force? (5) 37 Drive round black purse for Hillary (4)