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CROSSWORD (GRAHAM'S

PORT

GRAHAM'S

PORT

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 11 April, 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 1152, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

Five unclued lights are anagrammatic disguises of a word which does not itself appear. The word in question thereby eludes the remaining unclued lights, and three others clued without overall definitions. All words are in Chambers.

Name Address

5

10

11 28

32 34 37

1-7

41

ACROSS 4 Wall Street on the inside (9) 9 Briefing on new protein (10) 12 Greatest cream sauce (7) 14 Nuclear network film about energy (5) 16 European Community cloaks in- formation English need (6) 21 Beat back a dumb dog (8) 22 High time for tax (7) 24 Mark aimed at turning round against old lizard (4) 25 Aromatic plant in perfect condi- tion (4) 27 Sentimentality in metre – a cler- ihew? (7)

28 Take, in zigzag course, ancient road . . . (8

33 • . . – paved road of stone pack- ed with ash, perhaps (6) 34 Strong smell (and not Involving fish!) (5) 37 Glut egger on nuts (7) 39 Total roots try out articulations (10)

40 Power inherent in head of board (9)

DOWN 1 Winds fashion edges of enor- mous ammonites (13, hyphened) • Trouble for Scots king, one usur- per at first snared by foul hag (6) 3 Amateur portrait accepted? It is not! (6) 5 Sloth of French assistant (4) 6 Device that's circular – and Ger- man, in part (7) 7 Leaders of super elevens, Richards and Imran Khan (5) 8 Order melon, meat (not duck), cheese (8) 10 Interpreters ensure the mist breaks (13) 15 Live to declare to be true (6) 17 Lincoln raised, in American South, the States' low forms of life (6) 18 Place for shopping your victim?

19 urb the undisciplined (7) 23 Look, make-up to colour eyes jet, possibly (8) 26 Pinched last of lint, wounded in the arm (7) 29 Obliquely, in the manner of a philosopher (6) 30 Fake Renoir, smoother (6)

31 Earthling in sci-fi work Time Slip One (6)

36 Managed without old horse? (4)