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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 5 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 1341, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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A wild 41 party (properly, the 6 13) includes the other unclued lights (one of two words). Five other lights (and one of the afore- mentioned) are anagrams using letters from the word 'Saturnalia'. Use alphabetical priority at 26.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Trencherman's wild fan of diner, among thousands (12, doubly hyphened)

12 Old pharmacist, proper bothered about a scab (10) 14 Proteus, in control, mutated (3) 15 I'm married in whirl, floating (8) 17 Anagram (5) 18 See Italy f-fail? Hairy (7) 19 Anagram (6) 22 Recipe, a number concerning portion of tongue (6) 24 Batting form has me dropped lower down (5) 27 Individual locks adapted to any of many keys (9) 29 rogue (5) grasses turned in crazy

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34 Boosts levels audibly (6) 36 Moony miscreant after 'is equal rights (7) 38 Bag ducks and bird akin to nightjar (5) 39 Nothing interrupts quiet in front of empty pit (8) 40 Band in Asian desert lacking leader (3) 42 Anagram (4) 43 Fish talisman out: fraud? (12) DOWN 2 Get near to clouds, scattering? You'll find these do (10) 3 Acid look picked up during endless meeting (7) 4 Minister deprived of power in wrongful firing (5) 5 What's in street and topped with recent Sun? (9, hyphened) 7 Anagram (5) 8 Beginnings of jollity odd game surely stimulates (4) 11 Clownish turn old Joey's ending impressively (8) 16 Drink peg (3) 19 Anagram (6) 20 Seasonable temperature upset Finns (6) 21 Fast changing clothes startle firm producing double-breasted items (10, hyphened) 23 First man cut name, woman's name, in group of trees (9) 25 Even Iceland has imported satisfactory Greek rugs (8) 28 Fixed bar on supports thus, making abacus (7) 32 Mostly pious sentimentality (3) 33 Handle tin hat roughly (5)

35 Leave former spouse to worry (5)

37 Bob wounded tail (4)