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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 28 July, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary% Entries to: Crossword 1319 The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Taking a 38 and lamenting a 20 of most 7 (two words), a 41 is heard by 5 to say 4 (three words). 26 suggests a link between the 21 and 20. Elsewhere ignore one accent.

Name Address

ACROSS 1 Ship constraining sailor to wash in rest times (8) 8 Cooler sound system? (4) 12 Response from cabs after the man switched oil (10) 13 Dress runner's head in palm leaves (6) 14 Dozy Rachel advanced dream- time (7) 15 Potash compound for flannel (8, two words) 18 Leftwards, it's outside zone doorkeeper guards (9) 19 Charge crushes game defender

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24 Manageable wife that's short of a lady (6) 27 Timber unit round sound system (6) 29 Empty Exchequer! Declare therefore ... (4) 30 ... huge tax cut by 5th of August

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at neat drinking vessel (9) 34 Routinist arranged anthem (9) 37 Girl injured hand in gallery (8) 39 Make cryptic jest in evening (6) 40 Idea involved lace glass maybe (10) 42 Innocent, backward dairy-maid base unknown married (8, hyphened) DOWN 1 Painting marine's head (8) 2 Bent on subject of opera (6) 3 Queen Elizabeth secures anchorage (5) 6 Dance name pirouetting like Pavlova (8) 9 Hop-head's university sermon (4) 10 Hug one Zorba abandoned (6) 11 Ladies moving as the sun moves (6) 16 Gun beginning to fire in anger 17 Wellington llington perhaps reduced pillage (4) 22 Sulk about fertiliser (5) 23 They survive lives bored by Uruguay (8) 25 Sweet spot (4) 28 Whipped feet out producing this? (7) 30 Clammy cold fish topped by force (6) 31 Girl with slimmed posterior (6) 33 Radio broadcast English bod accompanying band (6)

35 Peculiar new clue one related (5)

36 Take in ghastly counsel (4)