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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 8 July, 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 1266, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
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The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Broken raft near NZ bracken (8, hyphened) 6 Tailless bird with lettuce and tubers (6) 12 Skilful organiser of new revue in stately home (10) 13 House-party in Lincoln (5) 14 Courtesan from health resort incontinent, it's said (7) 16 Stiff hairs plaited — real fun (7) 20 Red Indian beheaded Herb (4) 22 A quiet strike: one stage of Hindu life (7) 23 Learning having put pen to paper, we hear (4) 24 State paper (7) 26 Reclaimed land from river ebbing about a third of a mile in China (7) 30 Foster paid for services (4) 31 Beat and hit tramp (7) 34 Some complete amateurs? (4) 38 Governors' wives or brothel- keepers? (10, hyphened) 39 The opposite rhymed? (7) 40 Show contempt returning almost all the vegetables (5) 41 Value of a tithe? Two bob off centre (10, three words) 43 Grooves of importance at general elections (8, hyphened) DOWN 3 One member has to forbid Chinese official (5) 4 Stored on a farm in Leeds, somehow (7)
5 Suggested thickening fat for filled soufflé (7)
8 Hunter — number one — gets run out, turning (5) 9 What gawpers do and we have time to do, according to Davies? (13, three words) 11 Without uranium noisiest single magnet (9) 18 Number out there (5) 19 Boxes containing tea for armoured compartments (9) 25 Aware of reworking 10 lOs + 1 (8) 27 I receive thanks for palm (3) 28 Winner had broken tape first, resting (7, two words) 33 Entertained and made us tipsy
Like (6 Like the Choral Symphony of Beethoven, in theory, partly (5) 37 Annual income with about ten changes (5)
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