W. & J.

GRAHAM'S PORT

CROSSWORD

CI W. & J. GRAHAM'S PORT A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 6 December, 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 1136, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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ACROSS 7 See 28 (3) 11 Garment could be so blue (6) 15 Jade and gold antelope (5) 16 Open to view round the green 17 ilocese by small sea appeared (6) 18 Japanese coin from Scottish re- sort before midnight (5) 20 Mushroom among collection re- turned (6, hyphened) 21 Aboriginal bag that's very pleas- ing, it's said (5) 22 Third of March: public school ring-dance (7) 27 Meeting on Sabbath. Noises off

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29 Salmon species on fishing pole

(5) 30 Insensitive baronet in river (6)

32 Urge one member before the Spanish (5) 34 & 26 Book about golf so dis- rupted during violent monsoon (13, three words) 36 Fish, cabbage and a bit of yoghourt (5) 38 Timeprince lost one canvas- shoe

39 suhnoee (mtional holy man wrecking

idol (6) 40 Attack, catch and clear out (3) 41 Only come to a new plant category (11) DOWN 1 Female pedlar showing hips and lock of hair (10) 2 Arrived with brolly unopened (8, two words) 3 Stopped for a time and applied for outside shed (9) 5 Port upset in centre of Rouen's old auction sale (7) 6 Did a safe, cracked hearing de- vices (8, hyphened) 8 Type one letter or another (4) 9 Ship-worm genus wintered out- side, partly (6) 10 My claim to be umpire upset unit

12 B) owl a delivery on sticky surface — leg-break (6)

14 Clairaudient let up affecting to be artistic (12) 21 Sanditon's unharmonious (9)

23 Morbid growth affecting one's 26 See el34(8()7) 28 & 7A Solitary nymph out East scattered seed (9, three words)

31 These things are and partly aren't, I admit (5) 33 Spoken of small child's power 35 Dress ess up and boast (4)