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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 9 October, 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 1482, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights comprise a key item and seven of its varieties. Each clue comprises a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the light including one extra letter; these extras spell out five elements contributing to the key item.

Name Address ACROSS 4 Improper performance (idiotic) makes fan seethe (11) 11 Supremo, in Real team, one responsible for making transfer?

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12 Shell out, say, tenner (5) 13 Disposed of finest decanter (11) 15 Craft deemed excellent (3) 18 Describe a hot, ardent adherent of religion (7) 19 Restaurant? In it, order roll (7) 22 Idea about peer, eccentric (6) 23 Sea snail given treatment (6) 24 Oriental art embellished nook

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27 Vigorous Presley track (5) 29 American ships officials divert (6) 31 Developer hails dome (6) 34 Big stone alongside shrub (7) 35 Nate facets in vehicles (7) 38 A certain generosity (3) 39 Poor Hamlet's delay (4) 40 Activists roar, attacking military despots (11) 41 Guitar looks unaltered (5) 43 Scottish pavement artist, in lane, snappish (11) DOWN 1 Old bacon gave a gourmet unsettled condition (11) 2 Immoral, thuggish extremist (5) 5 Lay on picnic — it's flavoursome

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7 System? See 'open circuit' (6) 9 Adore natural power (4) 15 Liked icon's look (5) 16 Operatives hasten into power plant (11) 17 Rag began to challenge advance made by police? (11, two words) 21 Raise bet twice (3) 25 Rub out bizarre sentence (5) 26 Choose adroit partner (3) 28 Particle, not so important (7) 30 Deceptive, nit-picking guest (7) 33 Stop parade — not interesting

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36 Stern Scottish collection of tips

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37 Mistaken long-tailed monkey (4)