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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 7 September, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1376, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 9 A film covers upper-class league caring for workers (10) 14 Fink turning set on (3) 16 Trapdoor spider's rear rash scout pinches (6) 18 Peculiar pastor shuns Ketch's supplier (5) 20 Suffering lesions, her pride's fierce (7) 22 Draw in Nutmeg State, capturing western pictures (7) 24 Drips a long time after swimming lake (7) '25 Dissimulator's exhibition (5) 28 Boy receives new viol with mouth organ (7) 31 Ineptly call novel Sin with Emma (7) 33 Dish of wood sink held (7) 37 With river swirling round, bass twice went down (5) 38 Anarchists' ruler in Middle East (5, two words) 39 Failed playing away (6) 40 Arrest ship with radioactive cargo (3) 41 In which merry, toping Lehar forgets note? (10, two words) 43 Selling rare table Rachel pinched (8) DOWN 1 Crafty African grabs woman stewing veal (13) 2 Preservative in egg and shell of eggs (5) 3 Hurt and sorrow over discovery (6) 4 Letter like thorn, old style character (5) 6 Again bridge scorers fluffed (7) 7 State harbours Indian craft (6) 8 Abhor sunless expedition (4) 10 Disconnect hearing device after painful pun (6) 11 Passing shot: tennis art (9) 12 Top agent left info bagged by larcenous antic (13, two words) 13 Space-time concepts one university cannot resolve (8) 19 Sent to a dealer divided up (9) 27 Upset maintaining endless devil-in-a-bush? (7) 29 Turk from Alberta wearing raised sandals (6) 30 Proclaiming god ruler (6) 32 Device of Cato in speech (6) 34 Pan this for elephant's breakdown! (5) 36 African keeps one at a distance (4)