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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 September with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chamb- ers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Cross- word 1326, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one hyphened), individualy or as parrs (wlt one component doing double duty), and those clued without over-

all thematic definition are of a kind.

Name Address .. .............. ACROSS 1 During swine-fever (11, hyphened) 11 Brought back from the Sahara Desert (6) 13 We got angry about ... (7) 16 ... fellow prisoners (5) 17 Cold bottle of milk returned (6) 18 Units suggesting punishment (5) 21 Press left rally (5) 22 Jibe about one left claw, according to Spenser (7) 27 Order and bill for aerofoil (7) 29 Publishing house notes Shakespeare's dolt (5) 30 Haughty chap among the Paris tourists (6) 34 Box in opera-house included start of Verdi's 'Aida' (6) 38 European beheaded Russian (7) 39 Points to the aforesaid Street? (6) 40 With which to 'eed (3) DOWN 1 Take one into position for armoured protection (10) 2 Moth and fighter-plane came in every evening (8, hyphened) 3 Complete state of Tulip Dene, maybe (9) 4 Special time for the Russian post office? (12, two words, one hyphened) 5 Protracted night out in Ely, perhaps. I left (7) 6 Yachting store at Sotheby's, it's said (8) 9 Earthly desire, indeed! (6) 10 Is paired or separates over the border (5) 12 Leader of terrorists with support (6) 14 Refuse a note and upset a girl. Nothing's very emphatic (12) 21 She is not Serb, confusingly, according to Spenser (9) 23 Pithy saying about ship carrying gold during morning (8) 24 Almost saturate a bird in soapstone (8) 25 Wild curs from the States (6) 26 Scarf — one for a mosque school (7) 28 Dilapidated hangar (6) 31 Love poetry in France delivered by bowlers (5) 33 One seen after start of wet period (5) 35 Constituent of neo-Latin backing (4)