CROSSWORD 1382: Point-to-point by Dumpynose

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 19 October, 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 1382, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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24 and 1D are the parts of what the remaining unclued lights are parts of.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Poor soil co-planters fertilise (14, hyphened)

9 Poll's a hooter (4) 11 Glass composed celeste opus (9) 12 Blow bishop kiss (4) 14 Plain stage for audience (6) 16 No-hoper has lunch (5) 17 Group by open window (5) 21 Petition English queen all others marginalised (7) 26 Male bumpkin turns jumpy (5, two words) 28 Goaded saint expressed pleasure (7) 31 What boron and iodine acids might be? (7) 34 Plant, near snip in auction (7) 38 Quiet troll gets shoal (5) 39 Refusal to quote retired intellectual (6) 40 Nothing's too much to the left (4) 41 Secure canned nuts for hoedown (9, two words) 42 Type of decree one Hebrew character backed (4) 43 House knight had 'twixt hill and vale for champions (14, three words) DOWN 2 Hollow book misdirected novice absorbs (5) 4 Science's justification apparently overlooked (5) 5 Misdepicted lilac . . . except in Chambers? (7) 6 Jaundiced dwarf ignores parking fine (7) 7 Join university course in Andorra (6) 8 Garden potato chipped for armadillo? (8) 10 By smarter strategy defeat entourage storming railroad (10) 13 Control bodyguard after power

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15 Green kea flutters with force (8) 18 Tourist spot flaunting several lis? (10) 19 Marinetti fan's delay taking vengeance (8) 22 Fairy tending Titania's amulet?

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27 Composer in Italy sees success take off (7) 29 Tailed leopard runs, panicky in front of trap (7) 30 Make sweet sound of large number of wapiti? (6) 32 Tired female friend comes round 6) ( 35 Legal corpus takes up Justinian's year (5) 36 Obliging spirit of Ulster fit of perversity hampers (5)