CROSSWORD 1262: Fowl fly or walk by Ascot

A first prize of 125 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 10 June, with two runners-up prizes of 115 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1262, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The t nettled lights are connected by a theme.

Name Address ACROSS 4 Carriage in cutting attached to train (9, hyphened) 9 Clap and cry out wildly for rich ruling body (10) 11 Young fish always circling lake

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12 Combined operations, 100, heal damaged part of ear (7) 16 Chemical substance I weighed at home (6) 21 Girl to sing in East (8) 22 Toy duck floats round middle of bog (7) 25 Railworkers' union's in knots (4) 27 Good, one's to suggest holding what sounds like tea dance (7) 33 Work takes ages in theatres like La Scala (6) 35 Bark — where to find terrier with very soft one? (5) 37 Fuel container with out-of-date spirit one imported (7, hyphened) 39 I, a good sort on range, take the prize (10, three words) 41 Types of haircut so far out (5) DOWN 1 Play new whistle now, son (13, three words) 2 Died getting salt mined in former Soviet area (6) 3 Warnings later broadcast on Sky initially (6) 4 Unrelenting English novelist (6) 5 Lump on lower part of the ... lower part of the ear (4) 6 Page on perforated nozzles — about right for dull writers (7) 7 Impatient expression over money (5) 10 A characteristic of cheap flat? (13) 15 Track made by duck in avenue of trees (6) 17 Trapdoor in court's macabre (6) 19 Flies buzzing at decapitated spider (7) 20 River current (6) 23 Welsh doctor in vehicle with Scot (8) 26 Eminence, Monsignor finally captured by effigy (7) 29 Catch it, a sherry glass (6) 30 Check on fan (6) 31 Cowboy in short trousers (6)

32 Poet Laureate gets round difficulty arising concerning feet (5)

36 Greek character, last in kibbutz, shows face (4)