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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 9 June, 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 1312, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The other unclued lights, including one pair, appear together on 10 (two words) in the 41 (two words) of 21 6A.
Name Address ACROSS 12 Tin in mad cause (10) 13 Common rustic weeds and reeds
(5)
14 Artist stops doing baroque church decoration (7) 16 New rising's incipient (7) 20 Direction you'll need to get lift from life (4) 22 Rates seem set for review (7) 23 Engineers vet movements of engine (4) 24 Revised copy in tidy heap (7) 26 Takes away tatty duds etc. (7) 30 Reflected in mirror, fab hairstyle (4) 31 Beginning to spill brew, child creates this? (7) 34 Light not in use (4)
36 From e (7'e)re entertaining pro's to d
38 Little John? Will's trimmer (10, hyphened) 39 Poor duck, flustered by oral (7) 40 See half Savoy Opera; see tenor? (5) 42 Steamer in use scattered heat (6) 43 Nark dropping last tense, worried comment (8) DOWN 2 Hampered mare had body rid of blemish, being this (8) 3 Love garland, bit of Constable, derived from oil (5) 4 Arcs not cast in error (7) 5 Revel in which one has roll around (7) 6 Fishes from flat-bottomed boats (6) 7 Cheerful Scottish child heads for granny in Elgin (6) 8 Projection: fly-halfll have --- -- his shirt (5) 9 Stevedore takes wood, including pine, with one arm free (13) 17 Look deep, we're told (3) 18 Costly fiddle? Game's up (5) 25 Dodge obstruction with little dribble (8) 27 Your old miscreant Hyde carries ... (3) 28 ...mixture of acids, having career in evil (7) 32 Jolly aside from judge with eyepiece (6) 33 Fliers south of Ceylon? They'll keep records (6) 35 Barons dividing underworld money (5) 37 This poet, below par, becomes author of travesty (5)
Solution to 1309: Quartets
The other unclued lghts were sug- gested by the components of BAR- BERSHOP (19).
First prize: Miss B. Cooper, Faring- don, Oxon. Runners-up: Philippa Burnett, Basingstoke, Hants; M.H. Nixon, London W10.
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