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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Portage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 July, 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 1317, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL 9A is the source of the other unclued lights (all but two of two or more words) when these are correctly arranged.
Name Address ACROSS 11 One acting as mother by river basin (10) 12 Boy left Cumbrian town for Skye, say (4) 14 Turn over relation's drooping eyelid (6)
18 Call back about one for shrub (5)
20 Make godless and reject without time (7)
21 Bends over in church to purify (7)
23 18's no good in the country (7) 24 Ragout of sausage without asparagus tip (5) 25 Type of marble! (5) 27 Put an end to sailor, stupid but not weak (7) 30 Early Socialist and SDP supporter (7) 36 Beginning outing to lovely East Yorkshire town (5) 37 Box with ten tropical fish (5) 38 French town exchanged tips of English flower (6) 39 Sow's offspring (4) 41 Indication of crass ignorance (4) 42 Writes on holiday having pass'd Doncaster, maybe (14, three words) DOWN 1 Cats left during Irish festival (5) 2 Fails to include most changes I included (5) 3 Two measures of whalebone (6) 4 Incur changes of ancient alphabet (5) 5 Fishing port with shopping arcade and first-class garage's opening (7) 6 Beat up small county dance performances (7) 7 Bristly middle of chin and upturned dimples! (6) 8 Fascinate Frenchman and girl with get up (9) 10 Give a soliloquy about moon girl embracing German (11) 13 See. One's up by one. Delightful! (7) 21 Shrinks with a graduate between the covers (9) 26 Struggles of Spain and France over castles (7) 28 Hotel porter's ring and spring
(7) 29 Coward gets the bird after start of Cats (6)
31 First David Steel involved the first-born (6) 33 Eastern member came in for time (5) 34 Country concerned with raising aid (5)
Solution to 1314: Dans la cuisine
The unclued lights were FRENCH COOKERY TERMS used in English.
First prize: Jackie Hinden, Brighton. Runners-up: E. O'Brien, Docking, Norfolk; S.A. Dunk, Prahran, Victo- ria, Australia.
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