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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 June, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1261, The Spectator, 36 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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Name Address ACROSS 4 Top hats posh city men ordered (11) 13 Result in error? Well! (9) 14 Establish, out of leader, Scotsman's aim? (5) 16 Chase about disheartened baddy (5) 19 Divine abode's unknown, hidden by Proteus with endless effort (7) 21 Plants a tobacco-field (4) 23 Before a meal, cut, pound and dress (7) 24 Stain camera catches for all to see (4) 25 Cut certain flower with bad grace (7) 30 Attempt, with wife, to share expenses equally (7, two words) 32 Spoilt reedbed retains oleaster?
(7, hyphened) 34 Areas of dunes in Arabia, say (4) 35 German edition secured by chain (7) 41 Unpleasantness in crooked den's clear (9) 42 Bit of song? Of course (6) DOWN 1 Magisterial priest can lour so fearfully (11) 3 Tree — your mountain shelter?
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inging society joints (4) 6 Raid, without notice, pill-box (4) 7 No emperor, when capturing hearts, is seen as such (7, hyphened) 8 Engineers' gauges, distributed severally once the sun's out (7, hyphened) 9 Rough 32's cut by thy, hard mineral (9) 10 Indians toil around railroad on borders of uplands (7)
17 Poor Eeyore's not a pretty sight (7 20 Ele)
vated unionist working steadily (7)
22 Sacred Zen works in bookcases (9) 27 Skill's needed to load small rifle (7)
28 Folk-dance company sustaining customs (7) 29 Connects jade with offence two words) 33 Exchange of old subfusc or seminary clothes (6) 36 Seat of duke surrounded by views (5) 38 Throw away slate? (4) 39 Holidays for cleaners (4)
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