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CROSSWORD
GRAHAM'S
PORT
by Mass
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 March, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1148, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC I N 21.1–
91) could be said to 4D IA I ID I2A (including 101) and IA 18D) for the 28D (two words) 41A. Four of these lights are plurals.
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ACROSS 6 Light supper, 6D with tailed fish? (6) 13 Goodbye from little girl in a party (5) 14 'Tufted, Glaswegian's clipped head (7) 15 It activates dissembler round Thailand (10) 16 Engage a Scot, disciple of En- glish philosopher (7) 20 5 (in European time)? (4) 22 English club holds appeal for retired profs (7) 23 Bristle, rigid one (4) 24 Sci-fi earth-dwellers wander into mutant ants (7) 26 US tree, maybe olive, on middle of lake (7, hyphened) 30 Look fondly at faceless spectre 31 kowdy lots, mostly, for one who was blindfolded (7) 34 Man I almost killed? (4) 36 Grass region in East likewise (7) 38 Description of diseases making Sophy groan (10) 39 Buries old cat in trashy bins (7) 40 Former Russian peasant sounds impudent before a king (5) 42 One among steers staggers in Ayr (6) 43 Wandered in Ireland: southern corner came first (8) DOWN 2 My lord, he's laced sweet bever- age (8) 3 Neat spade on North's diamond ) 5 Opposing Turkish commander in strait (7) 6 Clean empty space (6) 7 Weaken child with exposure (6) 8 Legally bar mad poets (5) 17 Piper's curtailed dance (3) 19 Yankie general's drunk soft drink (9, two words) 21 Mark of Brontes' odd mated (5) 25 Blue casing for former roofer's tool (8, hyphened) 27 Gossip's banal in part (3) 29 Catch wrongly, and judge wrongly? (7) 32 Spot, around house, one in Hin- du loin-cloth (6) 33 Jet, look, almost ruined (6, hyphened) 35 Agreed wi' t' primer (5) 37 Piercing accent (5)
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