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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 July, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1164, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' Service.

ACROSS 10 Suggest a mum has roast (9) HP, oddly) (9) nautical at heart (6) 9 Yarn, swallowed by totter, in 17 Greeting fish workers first (9)

12 Like an old boater in troubled crowd (10)

14 Rust spread around front of in New England (6)

15 Screw drops shilling in front of A (7) 16 Bweing?p(a5sLonate with eastern with fruit (7) 23 Give weapons to one German (5)

shield-bearer (7) 33 Tries new services (5)

27 J4 hosed ets of water about, catch- ing leaders in unruly crowd (7) Solution

29 Food experts having conferences about its cooking (8) 32 Woman among pack of hounds, in bright red (6)

34 Conservative stockings, hand- picked (5)

35 Nurses rebuffed medicine man no end (5) 36 No time for bloomers? Asto- nishing things (7) 37 A first for newshound in time attached to another organ (6) 38 Pamper fat deb here, possibly (10) DOWN 1 Greyish beavers, types that kill their mates (10) 2 Man, perhaps, consumes last of breakfast fibre (5) 3 Acknowledge receiving penny coin (6) 4 Swing showing Member's re- turned with ease, reportedly (7 6 They must be left in oceans! (5 7 Completely hide more than 10 until after (9) waters, northern? (7) 21 Acknowledge old silver is found plane (jet) (5) 26 Goddess, one beginning with E 28 Beginning to eat tea in garden promise, as of old (6) 30 Note from singer, we hear (6) right? (8, hyphened) on steamer that is heading north deserted (4)