CROSSWORD 1487: Name for ship by Doc

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 13 November, 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 1487, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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One clued light without hesitation provides the source of six of the unclued lights (two pairs and two singletons). These are 30 1 which was originally produced with the support of the other two unclued lights. Four unclued lights are of two words, including six initials. Ignore one apostrophe and, elsewhere, two accents.

Name Address ACROSS 4 Dagger's intricately carved bracket (11) 11 Old maze also seen in old lake (7) 12 House custody for Mr Hughes (6) 14 Scotsman with a Welsh bird (5) 19 Passivity I retain, in anguish (7) 21 Italians lacked snit brewing wine (4) 23 Looks at birds (7) 24 Listener's notice lacking edge (4) 25 Stimulated an endless argument about dues (7) 31 Bits of finest Roquefort sent back (4) 32 Spectators retreating before stand (7) 34 Heartless outlaw's rattle (4) 35 GB citizens serve old carriage (7) 40 Inclined to scrape dirt, first (5) 42 Measures where Nantwich is. Not half! (6) 43 Plant combating magic and evil omen through dance (7) 44 Actor from Bath or Derry (11, two words) DOWN 2 Singer breaks rules (6) 5 Wedding vow and line for object of love (4) 6 Some assessors' tax (4) 7 Decorate from top to bottom or bottom to top (7) 8 Settle redundancy pay points (6) 10 Doctor gets caught out. 21. That's serious (7) 15 Vigilant watcher's butterfly (5) 17 Harness-maker left gold rein off

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20 Independent changed plenty, with little care (7) 26 Writers making much money out East (5) 27 Spice girl embraced by loves (7) 28 Mystery-breaker having short month on river (7) 29 Homespun, quiet choral reworking (7) 33 Tight-fitting fleece from the Big Apple (6) 36 Leek lost everything, son (5) 38 Row of seats, it's said, on flaw! (4) 39 Got round by furious pedalling! (4) To order your copy of the new Spectator Book of Crosswords for £4.99 post free, please call the Spectator Bookshop on 0870 155 7288 or write to 24 Seward Street, London EC1V 3GB.