CROSSWORD 1330: Rumour has it . . . by Columba

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 13 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 1330, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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. that those attending to the 18 may gather the other unclued lights.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Bad deed's got man fine diamonds (8) 8 Follows greyhound races (4) 12 Onlooker sees nit dancing round tree (10, hyphened) 13 The night sky may be so dark after sun (6) 19 Men sharing office humour about superior green, endlessly ... (9) 20 .. jealous, thus somewhat put out (4) 21 Knife cutting mutton and cheese (4) 27 Drinker's first received coaster (6) 29 Avowal of goody-goody army (4) 30 Dispute blows over (4) 32 Recipe an invalid had after start of malaria (9) 37 Opposed elected independent with wild claim (8) 38 Quicker back, skirting hazard

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39 Ice-creams: constant joy, on being scooped out (6) 41 Greek character's small room (4) 42 Relaxed, cracked nuts and spoke (8) DOWN 2 Eagle's element I found in item of church furniture (6) 3 Courts with tunes, we hear (5) 4 Bimetallic money in new foreign arenas (14) 5 Insecticide's heading for crops in Ireland (7) 6 Smarter vessels up on slipway?

(8) 7 Fresh clementine, exotic (out of Spain): greedy one wants it (14, hyphened) 9 What initiate on studying skeleton analyses? (4) 10 Places for putting money (6) 11 Writing instrument: little pen?

16 Mouldings uldings — first book in series? There's nothing before that (5)

17 Tipped bar's bouncer (4) 22 Head of lance knight pushed in further (5) 23 Tenor's cracking tunes, alluring ones (8) 25 Misanthrope cut short and upset miss (4) 28 Odds on offspring being source of buoyancy (7) 31 Whitish, aged scales (6) 33 Tidy number fed (6) 35 Having threads, the Italian wears much (5) 36 Voiced full agreement (4)