A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's

Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 16 February, 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 1347, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (all but three of two or more words), when in the correct order, yield a cryptic quotation, verifiable in the ODQ. Elsewhere, ignore three accents.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Composer suggests venture (5) 9 African flier doing piece-time (10, hyphened) 11 Unknown animal returned amongst the rushes? (5) 12 Old-fashioned jump-jet lost height at end of dive (7) 15 Behave badly when the play is over? (5, two words) 16 Arranged in periods from 51 to 300 years? (6) 21 Shoes are fit for marine monster (8) 22 Chorused tune about drink (7) 24 Unfinished book for mineral (4) 25 Some Ghanaian cobras (4) 27 Palm, ankle-bones and part of the knee-cap (7) 28 Mexican temple made of tile and coal (8) 33 You old chaps and one Arab (6) 34 Financial return at start of year on new deli (5) 35 Time he has a jolly bath! (5) 37 Nothing McHaig translated is found in Celtic inscriptions (7) 38 Protest letter about sex (5, hyphened) 40 Single non-drinker brought in payment for carriage (9)

41 Hirsuteness hides old wounds (5)

DOWN 2 Lemur's reply on board (6, hyphened) 4 It's not this church's roof! (6) 5 Food-fish with perch's tail; variety of koi (4) 6 Active support for clumsy patriarch (7) 7 Turn round (5) 10 Clan against lobbies outside 'The Plough' (13) 15 One trick (including hearts) for a short time (6) 17 Variation of a blues can serve a purpose (6) 18 Strange client inhabiting ponds (6) 20 Dog from outside the brickyard (6) 26 The best ever mile at 50, maybe (7, hyphened) 29 Turn jar with last bit of honey in (6) 30 Arbitrator of Unionist member's anger (6) 32 Lines up on a plain (5) 36 Point in overseas territory (4)