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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions (please, no photocopies) opened on 27 August. Entries to: Crossword 1021, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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Twelve lights, including two phrases and (disregarded) three hyphens and one apostrophe, are thematic. Six of them are unclued; the others are clued without definitions. 15D is not in Chambers. Ignore an acute accent.
Name Address ACROSS
1 Liqueur I fixed before going out
(8) 11 Fish, note, scattered by river (12) 14 Bend back (about to heal) car- rying volume (7) 16 Take blame about salmon (4) 17 Money available for striker, once? (5) 18 Attending to Scotch? Wine, that is (6) 22 Ring our lugs in new style (8) 23 Fickle memory in deity (7) 24 Old magistrate holds book as fit for consumption (6) 25 Fishes round North for molluscs 27 Reportedly portedly 2 assault point above land-ice (7) 29 After cane, Eddie changed (8) 33 Against Arabic tree (6) 34 Danes all over the place (5) 35 Grass around deserts (4) 37 Pace in plot brought to book (7)
38 Ox well into corn container (5)
40 Spenser's easy? Poet helps, in part (4)
41 Local brisk chain's endless Indian food (8)
DOWN 1 Card including townee's name 3 Handle ndle last of cargoes, below (6) 4 Beauty spot? Artist provides painting medium (7) 5 Ancient boat in race Triton wrecked (10) 6 Letter English newspaper in- serted (7) 8 Rakes' regrets about love (5) 9 Broken ulna, vicar? Wrist-bone
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10 Kegs RN arranged for whale carcasses (6) 13 Strengthen party policy no end? It needs pluck (8) 15 Vandalised crescent full of anger in market-town (11)
20 Cheat no more on dogs, horses (8)
21 Brag set subtly takes in bridge players (9)
26 Man breaking into second bank (7)
28 One local editor admits newt, not invited (7) 29 Durable building (6) 30 A weary-sounding don (6) 31 Burn obsolete gun, we're told (6) 32 Plant in fire at Essen (5) 36 Blue point in Mac's flame (4)
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