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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 May, 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 1461, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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• .. means, as Chambers confirms, 'boundary'. A quotation about the 10 18 (sixteen words, in ODQ) begins at 14, runs anti-clockwise round the limes and ends, backwards, at 15. (Letters in squares 7, 17, 20 and 39 can be arranged to give the author's name.) Three lights, clued without definition, combine to reveal a key feature, the true source of the puzzle's 40. The quotation's unchecked letters could ShOW LIMES, HER HARVEST, HANDSOME BRIDE HELD.

Name Address ACROSS

11 Test faced by inspector in court of justice (5)

12 Prince having look around Malta (4) 13 Chaotic sound, swelling (5) 17 What involves skill — electrical connection? (5) 20 Head of order featured in one article about monks (8) 21 Note penned by tearful idealist?

(6) 23 Temperature is getting cold inside (4) 26 Graduate exercised a veto (5) 27 Young officer in role of Phrygian king (5) 28 Chap's bill carried by parliament (4)

30 Airman eats terribly old provisions(6)

31 Fine, gripping lecture full of tension (8) 36 Area held by unchanged Lapps

(5)

38 Country fellow taken aback by outsize city road (10) 39 Insect, note, right next to arachnid (7) 41 Fruit from borders of pasture by river (4) 42 Gypsy man, game lover (5) DOWN

2 Smoother air don's developed (7)

3 Doctor, mature leader of eminent rank (10) 4 See nothing very advanced in early English cadence (6) 5 Porter, in brouhaha, maligned (5) 6 Attractive image pie rendered (8) 7 Scavenger's run after libertine (5) 8 Bread for a bird (5) 16 Fine wine calendar (5) 19 Enticement offered by fashionable life (people of fashion accepting one) (10) 22 Cape bird with number lost over Uruguay (5) 24 Affronted nits duel madly (8) 25 Polecat, not fit — a quid? (4) 29 Barn let out for dance (7) 32 European reproduction of Ming article (6) 33 Bad-tempered people sound upset about society (5) 34 Some lino is polished up — it lasts a long time (5) 35 Frenzied cry from woman without moderation (5) 37 Tree rising outside institute (4)