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A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 8 November, With two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1132, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 1 Sec preamble (13, doubly hyphened) 8 Dance (square)? Henry's lost disc (7, hyphened) 10 Crinkly crisp oing round that is more tangy ( 11 Strike divine 5) 13 Food, i.e. maize (6) 15 Delete article in Irish (5) 16 Top primate with Cross (4) 19 E. China in revisionist line, for- mer sophisms (7) 22 Club ruined her half-boot (7) 23 Thump US drunkard (5) 24 More than one rotter refrains, losing face (5) 26 Fool scraps in classes (7) 29 Trick with Spades, reportedly amusing (7) 30 Sari's ridiculous on priest, one from Jerusalem? (7) 34 First of operas by G and S? (4) 35 Egg or turned banger? (5) 36 Eat, drinking decilitres — thrill for Jock (6) 37 Knave's back before old, old beak? (5) 38 New teachers abjuring right to confiscate (7) 39 Commit nutters for treatment

40 Wh) ere cowboys, but not lndi ans, pray?! (13, two words)

DOWN 3 Small case from East, cute (5) 4 A drink, we hear, for indigestion (6) 6 Short girl with Bill's flowers? (6) 9 Lay person with cold, maybe, in drowsy state (10) 10 Scotch's stiff stuff (6) 12 Digestive for pigeon makes sea- man vomit (7, hyphened) 14 New mini-coat affording protec- tion for foetus (8) 18 Box with skill? Factory worker? (8, hyphened) 21 Greek lore I translated for French bibliophile (7) 25 Settler cooked sturgeon (7) 27 Peg requires turn in roasting device (6)

31 Snead beats rising Hogan at first (5)

32 Fight's in second round (5)