CROSSWORD

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 July, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1370, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unclued lights form three triads suggested respectively by the components of 7D (three words). Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 12 Remains here? (10) 13 Larvae of 15 or 3's, possibly (6) 14 Painful Northern bird (7) 15 Insect in brownish-grey carriage (8) 18 Cat in container, fellow put in boat (9) 20 'The Gloomy Dean' from Reading, England (4) 24 Statesman in a state, left with boy (6) 27 British admiral — he does the housework around one (6) 29 Ham, mostly, plus one fish (4) 30 Not many sheep stumble (4) 32 One despises one who knows about one dropped from side

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34 Scientific instrument, using energy rare to me, at sea (9) 37 Got lost, being a year in torrid desert (8) 38 Cock and duck in list (7) 39 Old man goes round country with fish (6) 40 Good-for-nothing from Norway rode off in Surrey town (10, double-hyphened) 42 Repetition from one on Ecstasy in dazed state (8) DOWN 1 Watergate to prison block (8) 2 Beetle drive's ending in a while 3 Row round one with a girl (5) 4 Misjudged time, sauntered idly with daughter (14) 5 Mineral's from river, I note (7) 6 Writer is where she was born, we're told (8) 9 Pigeon drops height for a measure of corn? (4) 10 Engaging mercenary the Spanish ejected (6) 11 Spell of immaturity prominent in man on a gee-gee (6) 17 Head of every Catholic church in see (4) 22 Serve pieces of pork or kebab with a stuffing (5) 23 Greek character goes round Crete, flying and so on (8) 25 Beast that must be difficult to get onto? (4) 28 Not repeated on those broadcast (7, hyphened) 31 Recaptured alien held in castle (6) 33 Former PM in charge of a heavenly place (6) 35 Charles and the French girl (5)