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A first prize of £30 and bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 12 October, 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 1381, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The other unclued ights (one hyphened) are, in 3 senses 3.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Con man (lodger) excited gossip (13) 11 Dung fellow probes is signifying old reptiles (10) 12 Discharge from office accepted
14 Glass well charged with whisky (6) 17 Girl and I will have cold drink
20 Detail from unit ordered into reversal of plan (7) 21 Study made of land by sailor after docking (7) 23 Rowdy elements cutting out mass of upright slab (7) 24 Mushroom in pie, no kidney (5)
25 Dots in line joined by children (5)
30 Behind topi sun is out (7, hyphened) 32 Whistler over with two artists in Italian city (7)
36 Right to stop craving purgative (5)
37 Raw recruit in castle yard (5) 38 Short piece (knight) advanced (6, two words) 41 Cuckoo flutters (4) 42 Worries about wearing weird hosiery, unknown where natives are cultivated? (13, hyphened) DOWN 1 Second payment for tool (5)
2 Earnest Van Gogh worked here (5)
4 In front half of pantry there's French article of silver (5) 5 Swindler revealed by periodical's piece (7) 6 Candidate, fresh one, securing win (7) 7 Game settled with hard stone implement (6) 8 One readily grasping language reduced insularity (9) 10 Chosen people king raised into current positions (10) 13 Grass around autumn cut for fodder (7) 21 Who'd come to limit braves? (9) 22 Coin captures spirit of queen (7) 26 Tyre, say, in ditch, left (7) 28 Breed's absorbing source of comfort to breeder? (7) 29 Soft drink in reserve under heading of 'Cola' (6) 31 Novices desperate to rise (6) 33 Invulnerable galley? (5) 34 Zeno mused about heart of paradox in patches (5) 35 Unconventional energy psychic uses (5)
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