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CROSSWORD 1084: The winner is. . .' by Columba

A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 23 November, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1084, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights and those clued without overall definition are (individually or, in one case, as a pair) of a kind. Three of these lights are of two words; two are of three words. The unchecked letters of the thematic lights may be derived from the phrase BUFFS CAN CHART LENGTHS.

Name Address

ACROSS 16 Produce sugar's source, round 2 Surly guy, disheartened, lags be- granules at first (5) hind (6) 18 A politician's current measure 7 Charges about making Scottish (3) forays (7) 21 Snake outfit worn by artist (5)

23 Enlightening bad leader of un- kind dynasty (8)

25 Reap hay lazily, energy sapped by peat-bog (6) 27 Give over a hundred comfort (5) 28 Rainbow-like clock face follows infra-red one (7) 35 In busy hour, shed light on calculus (7) 37 Haggard character in article, very pale (5) 39 Snatch back, in equal quantities, fruit (6) 42 Cobwebby aura one disturbed by spider's head (8) 46 Gift sent out before . . (3) 47 . . . love leaves carved wooden present (5) 48 Boy has lark about, catching black beetle (7) 50 Finance offices lose cash in urge to go mad (14, hyphened) 51 Meals with bitter vetch: causes of irritation? (7) 52 Made error, returning Skinner? (6)

DOWN

1 Short crick has provoked shrill cry (7) 3 Batter computer's memory (3) 4 Old god, universal god of the sun (rising sun) (6) 5 Skirt the south of France (4) 6 Imaginative horror writer with twitch (6) 8 Legendary bird above Scottish cattle (5) 9 A naughty faerie that is out to frighten, in Spenser (5) 11 Valerian planted on barrier (7) 15 Ray is perplexed about brea- thing organ of a seal (9) 17 Time engaged in mutilation of beheaded whale may yield it (5) 19 Greek philosopher, quite drunk (7) 24 Assembly of new regiment, right away (7)

26 Source of pasties? Parking, one hopes it might be (7, hyphened)

30 Exposed citizen (7) 31 Fine new muscle (5) 33 Press again, for example, regret Queen being upset (6) 34 Seen sun, setting? Knock out!

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38 Main sweet cake for urchin (6, hyphened) 40 Wild oxen buried in volcano ash 41 n the move, right after wine

44 One cherished incomplete con- cept (4) 45 Left that for Scotland's chief herald (4)

49 Superior Home Counties custom (3) Solution to 1081: Rotary clubs

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The clubs in the circuit next to the outer one begin at 1, 5, 14, 24, 28, 31 and 35.

First prize: Mrs J. D. Crabtree, London SW19; Runners-up: Mrs E. J. Shields, Stroud; Dr J. D. Ren- wick, Ramsgate.

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