CROSSWORD

W.& J.

GRAHAM'S

PORT

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 7 April, 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 1303, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unclued lights — all, suitably, in different 5 — are the 12 of 3 4. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

Name Address... ACROSS

1 Devices to vary current, cut and since fixed (11)

7 Call friend back (3) 11 Live round city's slightly depressed spot (6) 13 Old-fashioned cunning spies from the east (7) 15 Third of articles shifted by kings in traditional story (5) 16 Hum informally from start to end of mass (5) 17 Elect champs, we're told (6) 18 Rodents around north diminish

(5)

20 Carpet in front of well- appointed 'otel (6) 21 Look into care of capital (5) 22 No performance or version of Lear heads for cosy happy ending (7) 27 One form of Islam — that's what I'll follow (7) 29 Lean round line, pipelike (5) 30 Artist, forsaking interior, draws on palms (6) 32 Glossy Scottish seal (5) 34 Oppose doctor cutting hair (6) 36 Stumbled, blushing, faced by Queen (5) 37 Clan damaged English weapon

(5)

38 Force hostile to product of 25 vineyards (7) 39 Let us know our planet (6) 40 Time that's short and not sweet

(3) 41 Society, a thing learnt about by traveller? (11)

DOWN 1 Wrong start of introit can upset cleric (10) 2 Cold tyro treated like a GP (8) 6 Influence Aaron exercised so long (8) 8 Inlay, oddly bluish, is removed (4) 9 Artillery mounted near main ack-ack gun(6) 10 Go with rowdy bears (5) 14 Old primate shuffled up to see choir (12) 23 Literary fragments, smart type penned by colonists (8) 24 Guy seizes parts of cage (8, hyphened) 26 Money for wages in register covering Scottish port (7) 28 Slowly locking a shed? (6, hyphened) 31 Nasty insult, this: slur is meant

(5)

35 Mountains spread out without end, rising (4)