CROSSWORD 1338: Fingered 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 8 December, 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 1338, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Ignore an apostrophe.

Name Address ACROSS 6 Treats lad to beers (7) 13 Legal recipients removed bit of dirt from feet (9) 15 Tops of barrow — earthwork's raised mound? (4) 16 Grainy pattern from back of deer and mushrooms (7) 17 Reproachful language is a disgrace (7) 18 Table-talk among German ambassadors (3) 19 Study English, involving monoglot at start of year (10) 21 Pass a law overturning cane punishment, finally (5) 24 Number five — a star (4) 27 Changing silver, I got nothing (4) 30 Intestinal concretion put into print, nothing moved to front (10) 33 Small old dwelling with small boat and small bed (3) 35 Early Mormons badly stained

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37 The ground's audible defect (4) 38 Worse than nothing. That is right (9) 39 Church-goer in favour of trial worker (10) 40 Groups of nine suggest some notices (7) 41 Expert's big lies (5) DOWN 1 Leicester OAP do organised for Jodrell Bank (14, two words) 2 One flea's developed an appendage (8, hyphened) 3 A virus engulfed Puerto Rico, roughly (6) 5 Each night preceding the tracks

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6 Oolite having deer's colour effect (8) 9 Precautions that could be first, as a rule? (14, two words) 12 Squid length in company symbol (6) 14 Numerical representation of rascal (6) 22 Small bag with money in river (6) 23 Rodents Leo Smart bred (8) 26 'Moor': Shakespearian recluse 29 Reportedly portedly severe tapestry (6) 34 Sheath round half an animal (5) 34 Arabs' tent village is the same on their homeland (5)