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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 November, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1437, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Stree , London WC1N 2LL The unclued lights are of a kind. Two abbreviations appear elsewhere.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Sparkling silver confused male (6) 10 South African carrier and dealer accepted new prints about gold (14, hyphened)
13 Knotty problem with drug allocation? (6)
16 Erica mixed oxide (5) 17 Narcotic drug from Havana (3) 19 Initial layer of plaster worn by shaggy dog? (9, two words) 20 Vauxhall car with new dimension on the beach (7)
24 Potentate always embraced me (5)
25 Its neighbour is Cardiff, to a certain extent (5) 30 Usual coastguard sorted gastropods (7) 33 Spanish wine-shop owner awaited wayward rogue (9)
35 Destroy region (3)
37 Old measure chief removed from Celtic noble (5) 38 A tail's wagging jerkily (6, two words) 39 Welshman's platform (4) 40 CaC or CaCC? I'm a builder, perplexed (14, two words) 41 Talks of Distel in bowler (8, three words) DOWN 1 Skunk, one with adult female sterility (6) 2 Argonauts or Onassis crew- members reviewing a Skerrics log (12, two words) 3 Fat enveloping independent landowner (5) 4 One striking head's acting up for capital (6) 5 Game-bird in Scotland for Cypriot organisation (4) 6 US trailers of quiet theatrical shows (7) 8 Wdrld language's one learning subject to misconception (6) 9 English clergyman's muscles (8) 12 Boy with child-in-arms ran in and out (7) 15 Governmental assistance for US DIY bus reorganisation (12, two words) 18 Duke left cathedral, tripping about a passage (8)
21 Look into 36's upset porcelain (7, two words) 26 Wild aguti one caught out of a compound (7)
28 Benign tumour affected a daemon (7) 29 Plans include Liberal fanciful wishes (6) 31 Timeless blast of the pan-pipes (6) 32 I left Arab chief with the Spanish money (6) 34 Short cloak cut short for short stay (5) 36 See 21(4)
Solution to 1434: All change
The unclued ligh s and those clued without overall definition are COINS.
First prize: Margaret Almond, Southampton. Runners-up: Tamsin Day, Llanfairfechan; Alastair Geddie, Stockport.
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