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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 22 November, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1134, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (four of them plurals) comprise a key word which (in the 9D sense) suggests the other seven (which include a two-word definition in Chambers and a three-word phrase.

Name Address ACROSS 8 Not inclined to mix? A fizzy Cola is (7) 10 Misty paintwork in airless fuma- tory (7) 11 Orderly's about first in mess, oddly (5) 13 Stir well in mould no end (6) 15 Sockeye salmon AC caught in NA (5) 16 Love drink over work? (4) 19 European's palm anil's blotched

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20 Intimidates Dickensian charac- ter vocally (7) 22 Is reinforcing reduced proof, to bring wine up to standard? (7) 23 European vino, addling poet's final words? (5) 24 Piano part for one in lowest class

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26 Current unit in boys' torches (7) 29 Good digestion, energy? Yes, pup's frisky (7) 30 Query a vessel reported in Jew- ish funeral ritual (7) 34 Some hopeless Hawaiian god- dess (4) 35 Jewelled headpiece I found in bracken (5) 36 Cry for Greek Cypriot unity, second one around isle (6) 37 Iodine treatment's perfect (5) 38 A trite new English song (7) 39 Abounding in willows, pale (7) DOWN 2 Little boy's audible vehicle (5) 3 Chinks from ice one tossed in (5) 4 Strips back for insect, endless nuisance (6) 5 Heavy Bronze Age trumpet (Scandinavian) (7) 6 Corset used to be welcome lux- ury (6) 9 See preamble (10) 14 I defame Cretan? (8) 18 Wall mountings, old helmets, around club (8) 21 Accounted for deposit in pipe, say (7) 25 Arsenate of copper and tin turned up in a lake (7) 27 Dry fruit from pine without mea- sure (6) 28 Make contact with Jack, in trou- ble at home (6) 29 Join up shredded tinsel (6) 31 Upright slab from hill in S. Africa (5)

32 Lively dance, look, in passage (5)

33 Stray grotesque wood deity (5)