CROSSWORD

W. & J.

GRAHAM'S

PORT

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 August, 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 1322 The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Unclued across lights (one hyphened) combine with down ones to suggest four familiar 13. Elsewhere ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Perfumed dominee stops to

speechify (7) 11 Show scorn with low grade sort

of expression (7) 12 US cats fine in doggeries (5) 16 Stroll in the morning sounded short (5) 17 Nightingale once in lime-tree 20 A (4e) diles at sea, following the sun

21 S(7 elf-centred rain god emptied Wimbledon (7)

23 Exhausted containing desire for ambassadress? (7)

24 Yak persistently in African state

25 Crimple, umple, run away and die (5) 30 Diesels tanked up, doing nothing (7) 31 Subversive speech drops second issue (7) 35 Humour hollow in the ears (4) 37 Fabric pressed flat (6) 38 Banal intrusive boss (5) 39 Beryl besotted shy aldermen (7) 40 Luce swims with eel in bowl (7)

41 Bluff after rum ends blues or unhappy state (13) DOWN 1 Note god landing (5)

2 Ferret not after bird (5) 3 What's funny? Baboon almost blushing (5)

4 You Tarzan, ----, said Welsh Jane in a plane (6) 5 Autobahn circuit close to desert (7)

6 Maybe Tibert rings Nancy up with a sigh (7) 7 Upper house heard fanfare (6) 10 Dance not ending in racket, the same getting quieter (10) 15 Bananas nurse had not split (8) 18 Bivalve trumpet sharp higher up (10, hyphened) 19 Kiss secure sleeper (8) 26 English swine, circling meadow,

like mushrooms (7) 28

Need san desperately? 999 (7)

30 Flowers grow in Iceland (6) 32

Confessed to listeners audibly (5)

33 Joint feast two knights split (5) 34 Also Spain has mountains (5)