CROSSWORD 1489: Glorious voice by Dumpynose

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 November, 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 1489, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The aim of 12 (two words) is to 'IA (three words)/43 (four words)', a quotation from a work by 28 worthy of any 8. Remaining unclued lights, taken from each of the work's first three lines, might loosely describe 12, in which the work first appeared.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Some light exercises stop fractures (4) 11 4 had this pen filled with azurine liquid (10) 13 Dunces lacking time for marbles (4) 15 Weight of chord Rachmaninovesque (6) 17 Jar of money containing lire (5) 18 Earthy rock stars cavorting (5) 20 Persons upset by anonymous decisions (8) 21 Where French abstainer and shy dipso excel in conversation (7) 23 Check God's name for Jewish bread (7) 24 The prophet turns corners (5) 26 Note spread? New diet's in place (5) 32 Abuses trendy rulers banning Anglo-Norman (7) 34 Nostalgic bumpkin swallows some bananas (8) 36 Man runs in murderer (5) 38 Cross desert that's on all sides (5) 39 Canary shoot (6) 40 Food repelled US town (4) 41 English vintner merry before late party (10) 42 Commune listened to band (4) DOWN 2 Fruit with reddish coloured outside (5) 3 Spoilt Samantha, if ignored, creates disorder (6)

4 Jack invests zaire for Nicholas? (4)

5 Straight date cuddles a paramour (7)

6 Matelots cover up fungal stain (7, hyphened)

7 Teeth munch rinds off in one (6) 10 Unendowed college gone bust accepts capital in LSD? (12) 14 Excellent fish nets to weigh (7) 16 Tailless ox impregnated by tailless ox after tailless ox (8) 25 Some asses cut tax on widow's right (8) 27 Separate rare CD and EP featuring Queen (7) 29 Unit was first with green paint inside lifts (7) 30 Supposing short old lady possesses steeple-crown? (6, two words)

31 Whisky in provided glass (6) 33 Romania's after antimony, iridi- um and copper from Italy (6)

35 Banned ducks flap overhead (5) 37 Mystic song is silly without piano (4)