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1481: Double vision by Doc

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 2 October, 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 1481, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The 13 unclued lights (one hyphened) bear a common feature, dif- ferent in each solution. Correct identification of the feature will preclude all other alternatives. Elsewhere, ignore three accents.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Old-fashioned coin for army of

freemen (10, hyphened) 14 French trees' conditions (3) 16 Got the wrong quarter (6) 17 Eliza spilt hot ashes (5) 18 Greybeard, a military-man at heart (5) 20 Keeps limited dollar bills around a thousand (7) 24 Titters about faster passages (7) 25 Shakespeare's set on some guitar recitals (5) 26 Edible plant before some spinach (5)

31 Minstrel is a good lover out east (7) 33 Awfully pleased as time went by (7)

37 Like Anacreon exchanging ten for one with US oil-man (5)

38 A bed in France without a light (5)

39 The Great North Road's the French bridal-paths (6) 40 State round port (3) 41 Addressing monarch, a poet's turned round (10, two words) 42 Vestment returned in East German district (6) 43 It induces a reaction making DOWN everything awfully green (8) 1 Totter disturbed Ann with new board-game (13, three hyphens) 3 Note directions to the French ground for lacework (6) 4 Skins from upland moors (5) 6 Succeed with popular woman with sex-appeal (7) 8 Preminger left out of game (4) 10 Casually bides time here? (6, hyphened) 12 Worry barrow-boy with name in race (13) 13 Remove from list outside — lost and upset (8) 27 She entertains an army with

chain-letter? (7) 29 Salad vegetable was not raised

by low building (6) 30 Shakespeare's clasp for male

hawk (6) 32 Team of cars having eastern unit (6) 34 Allah's slaughter? Yes! (5)