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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 28 May, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1260, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued I ghts (one with an apostrophe and hyphened) are of a kind. I must take preference where an alternative exists. Else- where, ignore two accents.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Dial, apparently, is so easy- going (8, two words) 11 Examiner greatly fearful about changing toga (12) 12 1,000 and 2 other birds (5) 16 Type of print showing old Pope (4) 17 Old Portuguese colony houses primitive bird (5) 18 To rule out purification vessel (6) 22 Cost on the nail? (8) 23 Knowledge stinks! (7) 24 Chooses going topless — it's no different (6) 27 Sledge route around state (7) 29 Filthy lucre, man, for Spenser's purse (8) 34 Wife read about e.g. sandpiper

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35 A Balt out of the original stock? (4) 37 Give back money after interval

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38 Holy tree where man hid away 40 Tastes its centre maybe! (4) 41 Disponee moves to section of Rugby pitch (8, two words) DOWN

2 Black cuckoos in the Cayman Islands (4)

3 Want hatred removed (6) 4 US mail (one cent) from Brittany (7) 5 Corresponding rival (10) 6 Patterned fabric with castle on in temple (7) 7 Actor (male) takes exercise up on bed (11, hyphened) 8 Stop unknown leaving settlement (5) 9 Abnormal reaction to cocaine causing loss of appetite (9) 10 Reviewed poem about a northern tree (6) 15 Reckon Flynn on line for legal copy (11, hyphened) 20 Relation admitted one Liberal: daughter not invited (8) 21 Genus of sea-carp? No! (9)

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28 Ukrainian hunter out East (7) 30 Southern people climbing empty ravines (6) 31 Provoke to action, suggesting awareness (6) 32 Boundaries during some Tests 36 Notes upset in Boots? (4)