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1295: Tattoo by Dumpynose

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 10 February, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, The Cham- bers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Cross- word 1295, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Three unclued lights point to a famous trio heralded by 1D triply hyphened), while each of three others is likewise famous as a 7A in a 40.

Name ACROSS 1 Uniting again, mob canter in wildly (11) 11 Frame recipe for devil-fish (6) 13 Bachelor, single, planted agrimony (7) 17 Game female keeps for second childhood (6) 18 LSE admits OU scoundrel (5) 20 Afflicted old vulture died (6) 21 Knight cuts prophet in show of scorn (5) 22 Room in short dress Dior tailored (7) 29 Single state or marriage? (5) 30 According to nature, Levi rebuffed cant (6) 32 Magus transformed cloak (5) 34 Ligament to worry endless miners (6) 36 Tour Egypt in tents (5) 37 Suit partly jacket on scholar? (5) 38 Bird flutters about till caught in bush (7) 39 Magistrate holds boar's head fit for consumption (6) 41 Trusting minor follows fancy (11) DOWN 2 Infer prisoner is sincere (8) 3 Mown with gross blunders, like neglected lawns (9, hyphened) 4 Initiator of mystic inner rapture (12) 5 Beer drowns County Alderman and Lord Mayor (7) 6 Piece spun for antique quilting

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7 Stumps customs (5) 8 Biscuits off one's trolley (4) 9 Grotesque, huge bird upset tailless coot (6) 10 Separate jeans from designer badge? (5) 12 Bird inhabits clumsy female 14 (6) decision to check diamonds' description? (12) 21 Co-operator and malefactor's sound point (9) 24 TT fish who minds a tot (8, hyphened) 25 Handled and skewered meat (6) 26 Assimilation of sailor happens after months (7) 28 Dumas' English novel diverted (6) 31 Reject turned outcast (5)

33 Acting fiasco in Lethal Weapon? (5, hyphened)