CROSSWORD

1302: Men in the street

by Doc A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 1 April, 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 1302, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (seven of two or three words), individually or as a pair, can be divided into three associated triplets, although one (itself a word) has to be reversed to maintain the association (doubly!), and this is the only unclued light not included in Brewer. Ignore an apostrophe and, elsewhere, an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Sirdar etc. fully redeveloped no- go zone (14, two words) 9 A long time in drag, especially (4)

11 Doctrinaire adherent, one appointed holding game chart (9)

16 Instruct acting in college (5) 17 Boy out of line around midnight

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20 Creatures one killed returning around noon (7) 21 Trees in a race in the early stages (7, two words) 24 Cockney Frank with record for dance (7, hyphened) 25 Some push over! (5) 26 Plans for drapes (5) 28 That clot Mass follows me back?

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31 Worthless cheques from US. Terms varied (7) 34 Short film of creeping plant (7) 37 Opera's leading male in water

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38 Priest embraced one serpent- witch (5) 39 Leavin' the car for a biscuit (6) 40 Start of day after wintry night? (4

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er-hunter is heard (4) DOWN 1 Italian area, maybe, in the Tirol (6) 2 Danes scattered litter (5) 3 Chopped cherries could become fuller-flavoured (6) 4 Mixed rice with a rare-earth oxide (5) 6 Scottish bird remains on litters

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7 Graduate leaves cakes for dances (6) 8 Trick first gained points for entertainers (8) 13 Knight, without sense, attacked Parliament (7) 23 Impudence of strange chap going round Shack Zero (8) 27 A flower goes up and down in stupid fashion (7) 29 Currency note and kina, in equal amounts of each (7) 30 Opener and official upset about publicity (6) 32 Hoards posh dramas (6) 33 Kent's off regular route (6) 35 Computer-guided vehicles brought back (5) 36 Even parts of salmon pilau produce membranes (5)