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GRAHAM'S

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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 16 November, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1386, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one of two words), are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Withdrawing: feels awkward having bad affect involving men (14, hyphened) 9 Caesar's boy gutted punter (4) 12 Very good game — exchanges halves (4) 16 Freeman from France or Latvia

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17 Apparently tedious insect (5) 20 Shakers adverse to change (7) 21 Highly estimated being always overdrawn? (7) 24 Contracts fade once it returns

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25 Idle fellow's a burden (5) 26 Places over one memorial dome

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31 I took crosses back with decorative plasterwork (7) 34 Tanner who ingratiates himself?

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37 Fabric from Italy with additional edging (5) 38 US pick-up by one Indian vehicle (5) 39 A rowing team is said to develop naturally (6) 40 Call up prize-fighters (4) 41 Turning in response to affecting county ego-trip (9) 42 Belvedere's outer pillow-case (4) DOWN 2 Fruit giving the sole answer? (5) 3 Old tradesman with moth-eaten line (6) 4 Platform's audible defect (5) 5 Join the others set up for Spenser (7) 6 Type of green ... (7) 7 ... and the rest he had eaten away (6) 8 Lists her new Scottish flower (8) 10 Irregular German air upset is hardly momentous (10) 13 Bats are moving side by side (7) 15 Send on post about new credit (8) 23 Line of broken mosaics around hospital (8) 27 'The Celestial Arc' — Azed to possibly hum it (7) 29 Unfinished robe features Irish crest (7) 32 Nettle from even parts of turrets in Chad (6) 35 Report on exercise and vault (5) 36 Financial backer of the Echo (5)