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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 31 August, 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 1426, The Spectator. 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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One of the unclued lights is a factor in each of the others.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Feature about love and marriage (5) 4 Kestrel put up with strong wind

(9)

10 Old spiritual icon converted king, softly spoken (10)

11 Placate underworld member (6) 12 Hot US group's manager (7) 14 Pillar before noble's land (5) 23 Finger nun wags in warning endlessly (7)

24 Measure of dry goods in untidy heap (4) 25 Pigeon plunged in New York (4) 27 Tools for crushing insects (7) 29 External twitching seen in invertebrates (8) 34 Excavation showing most of oracle's site (5) 35 Table with unfinished beer in front of sailor (5) 36 Notice, sheltered by variety of trees, low platform (7) 37 Hats covering cold heads (6) 38 Revolutionary record includes measure against ego of an emperor (10) 39 E.g. Bostonian novelist occupies attention (9) DOWN

1 Gastropod, dusky over one section (10) 2 Sun that's screened by yellow willow (5) 3 Attractive zone in exotic NZ, say (6)

5 Sicilian abandoned cart in rain (10) 6 Nebulous role UN's to foster no longer (7) 8 Old candles, number stored among ropes (9, hyphened) 9 Tuber turned strange after start of experiment (4) 13 French articles, formal clothes to be washed (7) 15 Mixture of stout and porter in ship carrying liquor (6) 17 For two people, corner in bar (10) 18 Sailor with single shellfish (7) 19 Prison a rash male's disrupted (10) 21 The King? Hard, self-willed (6) 30 Chattering person's periodical confusion (6) 31 Fish in river amid spawn (5) 33 Condemn charade, cryptic in part (5)

34 Group of plants to judge, we're told (4)