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A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 October, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1129, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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ACROSS

4 One who has power, with retire- ment of Perot? (9)

9 Drawing a ring round area (10) 11 Decay in vegetable plant (6) 12 Pass admits unaccompanied officer (7) 14 All right to arrest retrograde socialist? (5) 15 Endless fortune engineers wealth (5) 16 Again takes weapons behind sergeant-major's back (6) 23 Stnke violently to break defen- sive mound (7) 24 In bunker needing eagle (4) 25 Sherry fashionable in Hurd's do- main? (4) 27 Fool guy about study of flying saucers (7) 32 Doctor that's after hybrid? Stu- pid person! (6) 34 Singular iron railway (5) 35 Reportedly observes arrest (5) 36 In recital I animated tongue (7) 37 Scowl long suppressed by a top run-scorer (6) 38 They fiddle falsely lit visions (10) 39 Stating basic principle, monarch's holding on yet adapt- ing (9) 40 Dog-salmon's mates (5) DOWN 2 Tender shark (5) 3 A time to wear out dress (6) 4 He commends advance in public relations (7) 7 Have more gravity than past style, we're told (9) 8 Part from Hero, Leander (4) 10 General pardons seamen — it's irregular (9) 13 Noxious rum half drunk (7) 15 I released from trial no crooked robber (6) 17 Suffers in process of containing one invasion (9) 18 Instrument of lutanists the world round (7)

19 Men who are old, dull poets without energy (10)

20 Long seat for feast on both sides of table (9) 26 Sad toll distressed sea-dog (7, two words) 30 Easy money in reality (6) 31 Badly brought up in a new com- prehensive (5, hyphened) 33 Defenceless (like the pound till Black Wednesday!) (5)