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CROSSWORD CIGRAHAM'S PORT

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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 12 September, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1174, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued l'ghts (two of two words and two of three words) are of a kind, individually or as pairs.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 11 Prepares for production output solo (7, two words) 14 One doctor in New York, not in my locality (5) 16 Apparatus for blasting a passage narrower than the tunnel (5) 19 Steals: steals about one old penny (7) 21 8's offspring making feeble sound, audibly (4) 23 Pope's hooded jacket by the railway (7) 24 Trained and backed the German bass (4) 25 It's terrific greeting Virginia (7)

30 I will overturn sprightly setting for Twelfth Night (7)

31 In the North all food is unfinished, a bit off (4) 32 Originating from Paris, ingloriously (7) 34 Fleet with lookout catching first sign of raid (4) 37 Alice's alter ego? (5) 40 Twelve dozen is extreme (5) 41 Luing clover endlessly producing group of bracts (9) 42 One salt returning before time, eventually (6, two words) 43 Die of cold? (7, two words) DOWN 1 Standard expression affecting packhorses with time (11, two words) 2 Research scientist away in gaol (6) 3 Famous denial to Heath (5) 5 Was American journalist (4) 6 Leaders of championships usually parade such (4) 8 Swell schemes for drug-dealers' carriers (7) 9 One sailor with our Queen's weapon-makers (9) 10 Swindles baron amongst peers

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15 Fish from coarse seaweed, headless (5) 17 Jellyfish with distinctive air swallowing priest (7) 22 Lucid old king's coat of paint

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26 Torture upset my little man (5) 28 Red admiral's girl (7) 29 He foresees four entering small restaurant (7) 36 Suffer awful ruin round college

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38 Shrub from borders of Costa Rica (4) 39 Live round US swamp (4)