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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 January, 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 1392, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer.
Name Address ACROSS 1 One member with club money is not effective (11) 7 & 40 Short surplice right for villein (6) 11 Puss came back as of old round palm (6) 15 Covering round tip of mushroom? (5) 16 Deceiver from Back Brae, Elgin
(5)
17 Millet from dress and suit (6) 18 Sort of mail that's thin and black (5) 20 A knight gets a leg over a girl (6) 21 A square with bitumen and oil
(5)
22 Stableboys' probes (7) 27 Commanding Officer in coarse cotton undershirt (7) 29 Lifts one's hat once for tips (5) 30 Turn up in a bit of denim still awaiting payment (6) 32 Signified state worker (5) 34 Has another swim; returns for a rest (6) 36 Intermediate mark on old slave
(5)
37 Sage making war-dance on motorway (5) 38 Ship's order of merit includes soldiers (7) 39 Measures rod and stages (6) 40 See 7A 41 Charlie Dean somehow related to Spartan aristocracy (11) DOWN 1 Obligatory change to prime show rejected (10) 3 Even Lisa's moved by animation
(9)
4 Fewer English sonnets reworked without dull quality (12) 6 Peer concerned with the ear showing abnormal curvature (8) 8 It announces the cost of lives at road junction (4) 9 Go and fix (6) 10 A wind-up for hemlock (5) 23 Fruit sailor put in carriage (8) 24 Water-plant could be deep down (8) 26 Guardian's piece-work disheartened composer (7) 28 Cancels notice — upsets duck )
31 (Where to write up your help, maybe? (5)
33 Gravel ridge in the Skerries (5) 35 Bullet ruined plot of land (4)
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