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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 5 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 1210, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL

The 13/6 (21), a 10/20, and the 38/39 (two words)/3 (1D) are all associated with the timely 4A. Ignore an acute accent.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Marriage in dull church (5) 9 Season, season, they say? Spring

quite over? (10) 11 Strain holding power post (5) 12 Starlike order among bream (7) 14 Wife's language! (5) 15 School with academic third grade (5) 16 A club in America gives one the pip (6) 22 American snake causes fuss, curling in weed (7, hyphened) 24 Pan (South) American flight (4) 25 Jack, it's said, beams (4) 27 Henry with short Moor's type of axe? (7)

- 28 Crashed cars, pile in passage (8)

33 Repeat anecdotes about Homer? (6) 34 Brusque in t'Gaelic (5) 35 Dandruff caught in foam (5) 37 Dull rains (cloudy) during Thursday (7) 40 Subjected to attack, like old King Edward (9) 41 Wine for mass, volume knocked back (5) DOWN

2 Kind of llama (mountain one) - about (6)

4 Jellyfish stirred sea mud (6) 5 Gareth's former award (4) 7 Jar, volume for old learned Irishman (5) 8 Inspector cut up sapper (8) 15 Screen, interrogate audibly (6) 17 Quietly taken in by deceptions, enchantments (6) 18 Eight gallons alter American! (6) 19 Early aircraft, old-time Hawker? (7) 23 Harps one made for musicians

(8)

26 American girl (we hear) has 50 metal clippings (7) 29 Tough, eating the Spanish duck

(6) 30 Record box, obsolete since

changes around Russia (6) 31

Mostly new, firm paintwork on

plaster (6)

32 Lichen not once found in

America (5) 36 Clarify loss of page in press (4)

Solution to 1207: Happy hour 10D suggested the unclued WHALES and the phrase from the extra letters:

HEDONISM OR THAT PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE.

First prize: C.M. Beattie, Chesham, Bucks. Runners-up: Richard Stone, Barton under Needwood, Staffs; D.C. Tozer, Newcastle upon Tyne.