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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 29 April, 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 1256, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Could 9 (two words) be the result of applying another unclued light (a four-word phrase verifiable in Brewer) to the remainder (one of three words, one doubly hyphened)? Ignore an apostrophe.

Name Address ACROSS 10 Irish bobbies close to takeaway like pilau (4) 12 City spokesman follows post- dinner drinks (10) 15 See me train unruly to a T (8) 17 I am beginning to paraphrase 39 books in maybe 500 lines (5) 18 Poetaster not as tatty, possibly spruce at zenith (7) 19 Henchmen swallowing seconds make inaudible speeches (6) 22 Decks right inside sloop at sea (6) 24 Short caretaker government (5) 26 ICI doctor developed drugs (9) 27 Speculated in so much gold, dies ruined (9) 29 He sat sozzled and can't stand 34 Man n once not passe at heart (6) 36 Beggars black Dumpynose in paradise (7) 38 Slab of variegated slate (5) 39 Crazy golfer apparently cuts a caper (8, hyphened) 40 Tearful about worry (3) 41 Rowdy cherubs mob one tense precentor's deputy (10) 42 Tapir starts to angle nose towards aliment (4) DOWN

2 Unkempt hair alarms brass hat (10, hyphened)

3 Work force under Chinese tree half removed moss (7) 4 Pastor has some stewed quinces or pears (5) 5 Locally they harvest grass and sugar (9) 6 Innkeeper topped and tailed authentic shellfish (6) 7 Belted cross hooligan (5) 8 Unwrapped butt of American oil (4) 11 Swelling, roughly a small round mass (8) 16 Diner overheard menial (3) 20 Faucet needs turn to stop splutter (6) 21 Nipa's hub with branches radiating around bearing appendages (10) 23 In Peru radical referendum is already decided (9) 25 Surprise when sculpted as Mt Rushmore face (8, hyphened) 28 Variable instrument old clutched by syrinx player (7) 30 Roving rep with marvellous readymade abode (6) 32 Lyric core of Alpine song? (3) 35 Mesto romance finishes off classical septet perhaps (5) 37 Month airline passes over Austria for Uruguay (4)