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1298: On and on ... by Ascot

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 March, 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 1298, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights have something in common.

Name

Address ACROSS

1 Sharp points causing scrapes

around front of radiator (8) 11 Tug tied back up? (10) 13 Hoarse man going around northward (5)

16 Soldier procured leg of mutton (5)

17 Humiliate loose woman by providing yen (7) 18 Sounds like more than one of the lungs (7) 23 Religious fellow, sanctimonious in former times (6) 24 Guillemot, one in dive (6) 26 Brownie from Penistone (3) 30 Rule unjustly spy boss is first to go, along with network's head (9)

32 Wander inside tent with slattern (7 33 De)

creed the German is thrown in polluted Oder (7)

36 Having them, we hear, off- licence does better, in the main? (8)

38 Disperse wild gnu with firearm (10, hyphened) 39 Sermon contains supplement for one looking for the true church (6)

40 Grubs revealed on wild herbs (8)

DOWN 1 Tours of inspection, perilous with bantam upset (14)

2 Girl holds gold flower (7)

4 Fire escape (6, two words) 5 Bird from Sweden, unnaturally pale (4) 7 Floats round when holding lines (8) 8 Tales of terror in rare Irish novel about a head of state (11, hyphened) 9 Catches parents out (7) 10 Flags TIM doesn't want to see lowered? (14, two words) 12 Doctor has week in Ayr getting thoroughly wet (5) 15 Drop, in Japan, one lieutenant (4) 16 Fly with growing nerve (11) 20 Against one with sex appeal turning up (4) 21 Without it news lacks substance (4) 22 Fight nation in Channel (8) 25 Excite, at college, profligate drinking drop of sherry (7) 27 Mean? That's typical (7) 28 Priest, eastern, gets lean stipend

(7 30 Fin) e in Jo'burg — low one (4) 31 Rarely ring me in cave (6)

34 He can get no higher in municipal town-planning (4)