G RAHAM'S

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CROSSWORD

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 29 June, 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 1366, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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ACROSS 1 Thicket gets last of sunshine (5) 6 Loan us in football club formal clothes (7) 11 Bridge dictator's holding apparently by force (10) 13 Fairy-ring's cause: a rum mass dancing round one? (9) 16 Next gang to capture attention

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17 Liaison, a very loud one with passion (7) 18 Life story in regular letters from Briton (3) 19 Alert about dynasty, governor's temporary incumbent (10, hyphened) 21 Girl, dire neophyte in part ... (5) 24 ... soon disheartened Chekhov? (4) 27 Play left by doctor and hospital nurse (4) 28 Appendages Circe wrought (5) 30 Newton stopping toil lay on ground? Not really (10) 33 Commander once more cutting in (3) 36 Look, and spot parachute landing (7, hyphened) 38 Leaflets thrust, then scattered in road (9) 40 Worker put in part of phone (7) 41 Males shuffled in line (5) DOWN 1 Lid, see, opening to hasten mate's going above? (14, two words) 2 Refined cake with fairylike dimension (8) 3 Wayward 12 lacking direction (6) 5 Ear to pierce (5) 7 Soul with fibre wanting right religion (5) 8 Perfect voice (5) 12 Prince, mostly serene fellow(6) 14 Nightingale, good in tending (6) 20 Warm corner in valley round hollow oak (9) 22 Larvae climbing boy notices (6) 23 Lord's right to crush crafty conduct? (8) 25 Endlessly beset bears yield shares (8) 26 Jolly Scots love bottle (6) 29 Presses on gates? (6) 31 Part of cartwheel's run into post 32 Creak eak increased audibly (5) 35 Copper in past under shilling

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