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A first prize of £100, three prizes of £25 and six further prizes of The Spectator Annual (publisher HarperCollins, £20) will be awarded for the first correct solutions opened on 10 January. The first four prizewinners will, in addition, each receive a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port. Entries to: Christmas Crossword, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

ACROSS 14 Loses a shilling instead of a pound and slanders (7) 16 Slab 58's US (7) 17 Nazi with rubber in legwear (9) 19 Tread upon Scottish stone slope

22 Yo) ung Thomas (a little lad) holds scheme for source of fruit

(11, two words) 28 Sovereign decree committee's tidiness (14, three words) 29 Female has to lift old ruff (6) 30 Organ like 82 (5)

34 Land ploughed around 1 of 57 (5)

35 Fibre some artist left (5)

36 Refuge or house with tincture (7)

37 Cutting instrument to print volume (9) 39 Left President's donkey very quickly (9, two words) 42 Girl's brother in cupboard (5) 44 Film of fish swallowing com- poser (10)

45 Bear out British Rail's treasurers Vu)

49Supplies stolen tyres outside (6) 54 Darling, one other's spoilt (7) 56 Motorway is ahead. That's de- ceptive (10) 57 Street money returned for cosy homes (5) 61 Most sturdy material making up ties (9) 63 Pistol from the German top shearer (9) 64 African brandishing a gun by old master (7)

66 Flag wrapping dead Welshman (5)

68 Bizarre tour out East (5)

73 No obligation to buy a new prop (5)

75 Usefully ahead after deuce? (14) 76 Ape with English fruit (6) 77 Wit liquor after dark for janitor (11, hyphened) 81 Article by jolly's measures (6) 83 Are you, etc, fit for organised cell nucleus? (9) 84 Arranges gold with Europeans, it's said (7) 85 Have the means of living on loans first (7) DOWN 2 Land near the coast — Kent? not exactly abroad (8) 3 Wood? Sounds like metal (5) 4 HM batting for Ireland (4) 5 Lionel's new edition, ornamentally engraved (8) 6 Ugly sights distressingly in round holes (8)

7 Sh)aping of vase — vase in ring (7

Illusive devotee heard with cat

(7)

9 Skint hun, upset, has contrary

The unclued lights comprise: extracts from five CAROLS (all but two of two or more words), individually or as two pairs (with two apostrophes disregarded); three CARDS (two of three words); three TINSEL strands; three items following the GOOSE; and the WISE MEN. 46D does double duty in these lights. Elsewhere ignore an accent.

Name Address thoughts (8) 11 Tyneside writers covering the drugs (9) 13 South American dictator with- out new suit that's slit (9) 15 Prodigal prince in grant on everything (8) 20 False team embracing memoran- dum of debt (8) 23 Conferences about name raised for food study (9) 24 Misteaches? Wrong! Form a plan (9) 32 Watery sound slops made, Hcn- ry? (6) 33 Get choristers, it's said (7) 38 Anthem involving Magi, in fact (10) 40 Club strength (4) 41 Excursions or dismissals (7) 43 Supporter confusing Oxbridge rower at first (9, hyphened) 48 Chaff reportedly in river (4) 50 Suit prompting railway opera- tion (12, two words) 52 Cane renegade with one (5) 54 Flight-path or river tour newly included (8, hyphened) 55 Finc rain from SE4, maybe (6) 58 Newly adorns big pub notice (9, hyphened) 59 Fish-frame? (5) 60 Broke a puce container of soft drinks (9, three words) 62 Cuts excellent fish (8) 65 Eastern guide to explore oil state

(8)

67 Organic compound from one single rude violin (8) 69 Could be yours, the place where oil is extracted (8, hyphened) 70 Witness in support (8) 71 Awfully stunted undergraduate

(7)

72 Arthur's mother, that is, holding cereal (7) 78 Make sound agreements with Frost, we hear? (5) The solution to Crossword 1137 is on page 99. Book prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.