CROSSWORD 1329: Money, money ... ? by Doc

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 6 October, 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 1329, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one of two words) can be divided into two trios and a pair, thematically linked. (Beware of an error in the latest Chambers.) Elsewhere, one solution contains an abbreviation.

Name Address

ACROSS 1 Letters record first French article (8) 8 Primate went round square recess (4) 12 Small map: part of a group? (5) 16 A boggy place endlessly yields water (4)

17 S-C-A-N (5)

22 Like a recluse, boy took time back inside (8) 23 Irish labourer at Christ's Hospital (7) 24 Stoops for Europeans, we're told (6) 27 Rate per 100 — or maybe 10 in prison (7) 29 Fifty dealers spilt fish (8) 33 Timber left by a river for building stone (6) 34 Plant of mottled umber (5) 35 French friend is back from Mannheim, actually (4) 37 Practising once as a member of posh band (7) 40 Impression that's not wholly perfect (4) 41 Satisfy so badly without female equilibrium (8) DOWN 1 Roman magistrate consumed lamb's tail that's fit to eat (6) 2 A yellow lake is somewhat blue! (4) 3 Guides steam-rollers outside (6) 4 Butterflies of clay moulded by girl (7) 5 Quote Nelly, in such a way? (10) 6 Same, roughly, with colour daubed on (7) 7 The charm that will prevail upon a certain head (11) 8 Modify this age. Off pat (5) 10 Old flame and I left in charge of banishment (6) 13 Bursaries exchanged without one for cavalry soldiers (8) 15 He knows his stuff! (11) 19 Reg and Crispin arranged cartels (10, two words) 20 Everyone in gents rebuilt in canton (8, two words) 21 Second-class route with terrible need to be widened (9) 26 They're not Squares! (7) 28 Aggregated fruit to eat up in English port (7) 30 Mad Hatter's source of danger

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asping newspaper chief in dismal surroundings (6) 32 Odd bits of spurrey by a Hindu god (5) 36 Shepherd is nameless Italian islander, on reflection (4)