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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 28 February, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1146, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Chambers and/or Brewer will vouch for the unclued lights.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' Service. ACROSS 5 One protected by flimsy awning (6) 9 After onset of recession a clothier possibly becomes gran- diloquent (10) 16 Head caught slug (6) 17 Almost go at full speed — it's allowable (5) 20 Lattice-work for vines yielding litre, processed by the French

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22 W. Indian fruit recipe (very good in broth) (7) 24 Cunning pun, evil, rotten (7) 26 Cuts crimes around East (5) 28 Egg dishes: duck's egg blends with bit of everything thrown in

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31 Is Mavis involved in Hindu doc trine? (7) 33 HM, honey, in outmoded fur (7) 37 Spite from Dave? No, Maeve (5) 38 Inject (as before) one mil- limetre, I think, initially (5) 39 Tidy starter in nosh-up devoured (6) 41 It informs young compiler about origin of lights (10) 42 Ray's holding long Scottish roof slab (6) 43 Nautical blocks, obsolete, En- glish? Aye (8, hyphened) DOWN 1 Two types of fabric worker gives army chap (13, hyphened) 2 Holy city in Middle East heads of churches can attend (5) 3 Many rounds to bingos? (6) 4 Brownie, American, making effort (5) 6 One suffering hell? Capone? Might this have cured him? (7) 7 Gilt in fancy rum loo (6) 10 Ordinary Chinese port (6) 11 Industrial company's swallowed another: Italian one's left with two heads (9) 12 They show fatigue, former cam- pers, eating a little (13) 13 Helmsman's watch is about lunchtime? (8) 15 A rugby forward's very big, appropriately (7) 19 Turn up in port, get drunk (9) 21 Vessel in pine's modern (8) 23 Song in mass is handled by girl (7) 27 It provides a solution, one hold- ing five no trumps (7) 30 1 amble about, go round as before (6) 32 Free Church is involved, it's said! (6) 35 Some unkempt yokel in hollow (5)