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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 10 August, 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 1372, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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A quotation (twelve words, one hyphened) reads clockwise round the perimeter from a square to be deduced. Each clue contains one misprinted letter in the definition part; the correct letters spell out, in seven words, the appropriate saga, city and sage (for whose sagacity 14 24 was responsible). The perimeter's barred-off and corner letters could give HOOP-LA AIRY PIPER IRONS AWAY.

Name Address ACROSS 11 Visitor with query for good

hunk (5) 12 Yelper lawfully sparing leg (4) 13 Swilling swirling sound (5) 15 Bee in working doubles up, budging part of orchid (10) 17 Thai tide covers natron (5) 20 Note troubled swan stirring pool

(8, two words) 21 One reaching loose scrum with

six (6) 23 One's penned hot song (4) 26 Tiptop striker's first duck (5) 27 Why cut cotton back? (5) 28 Rover left behind half of planet

(4) 30 I'm with partner, one jumpy beaut (6) 31 Rosy round ball endlessly revolved (8) 36 Bonus involved dime, see (5) 38 As coins, engulfing sad and old misers (10) 39 Vocation of broads and not kin

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40 Gag, say, two soldiers? (5) 41 Speaker's bald buffer (4) 42 Tricks soft hats out (5) DOWN 2 Pastor summing up living (7) 3 Match includes a trio playing rewarding hot parts? (10) 4 Trays holding English loaves (6) 5 Head start for urban sleuth — no lock (5) 6 The scholarly lift heads to assess ceiling art sighted from below (8) 7 March: tree almost in bloom (5) 8 Look in channel — wettish look

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10 As city, source of pity (4) 16 Army volunteer put up tent (5) 18 In game we rib wide-hipped pitcher? (4) 19 Septa divide tense flesh, I fancy (10) 22 Trams moved miles (5) 25 Hare dashed (not led) (4) 29 See dog poor lad lost (7, two

words) 32 Tubes to tap twisted round (6) 33 Moose matter, said (wanting

help) Indian (5) 34 Mineral under tin byre (5) 35 Remove heir from some

unsound amours (5) 37 Abodes of York in new square

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