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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 December, 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 1490, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 6 Cover old veins treated by model (6) 13 Article in Spain about the girl (5) 14 One's last hint about game mirrored in poem (7) 15 Revealing everything about Llanelli and the borders of Gwent (10, hyphened) 16 Irish — perfect concerning flags

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20 Director suggests nothing (4) 22 Particle with time in cell (7) 23 Play to excess (4) 24 Artist cut up left rootlet (7) 26 Isotron perhaps containing a 'NO' (7) 30 Bull or cow that makes an impression (4) 31 Outer bits of orange and lemon mixed for honeyed wine (7) 34 Melon giving no information (4) 36 Unmarried meddler and candle- bearer (7) 38 Doctors disturb loveless legislators (10) 39 Causing the downfall of knight, unwell (7) 40 Gully with some deep rock cavity

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42 Tasting mixture of tea and gin (6) DOWN 2 Club member with course on rain abroad (8) 3 Change of life finished with reform (5) 4 Base deposit from just over the Border? (7) 5 Shetland estate holder placed tile in city (7) 6 Advance majestically from ice den (6) 8 Mean old tease (5) 9 Females collectively develop three legs next (13, three words) 17 Table-talk among American ambassadors (3) 18 Cattle united in the heather (5) 21 The Rule of Opera (5) 25 Plant odd piece in seaweed (8)

27 Old expert left in the Seychelles (3) 28 Tedious, worrying, superficial (7)

29 Pan, serviceable, has loose tag inside (7, hyphened) 32 Spots of colour round instruments (6) 33 Drink, for example, upset by dinner-bell (6) 35 Have a holiday on a dried up basin in hot weather (5) 37 Expel some college students (5)