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GRAHAM'S

PORT A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 1 September, 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 1324, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Rain's scattered around thus over flowers (8) 6 E.g. slouch about outside Chinese police station (6) 12 Fearful philomath, cold of eye (10) 13 Chairman's follower, not a wet

(5)

14 Almost incredible outfit Jock's fastened (7) 15 Grooming animal in grass (10) 16 Fish down under thousand — a reduced state (7) 20 Extremities: hands, heels (4) 22 Establishes island's encircled by yellow buoys (7) 23 Heart's broken by maiden without feeling (4) 24 One who may dream and beam

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30 Loud bird on the house (4) 31 Muddle has worried teachers

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34 Fish at home round breeding places (4) 36 Dull through nearly all of morning (7) 38 Rep with filthy lucre (dross) (10, hyphened) 39 Story behind fibre in wig (7) 40 Dock? Short plant name (5) 42 Monkey rushes up the pole (6) 43 All else depends on this island's character (8) DOWN

2 Read a snake's hesitant

expression (8) 3 Ridge covered by island army

(5)

5 Sounds start of symphony features (7) 6 Rag's gossip out of line (6) 8 Fruits garnered by Micmac initially (5) 11 Radiometer's giddy mass amiss (9, hyphened) 18 Aide rambling about north of old protectorate (5) 19 Hot feeling whimsical sirens provoked (9) 21 Pooh and Piglet's capital little wood (5) 25 Three notes feasible in recital (8) 27 What's left after burning 4 drops pretence? (3) 28 Woman catching low society gossip (7) 29 Chief stops some misrule (7) 32 Certain Kelly's instructed breakers of cells (6) 35 Scotch? Empty that, as before

37 Unhappy happy appeal's winding down (5)