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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 February, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1145, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

The other unclued lights (one hyphened) form two quartets suggested by the title. Each clue contains a definition part and the hidden letters of the light consecutively jumbled. Each Jumble contains one redundant letter, and these extras spell out an apt eight-word message.

Name Address

43

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33

31

9 10

13 1 11 16 7

23 24 21

26

1 1'2

27 128 29

14

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39 I 412_1 34 38 351

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ACROSS

9 Sea traffic at a distance (4) 11 Garish hood printed in visual purple (9)

12 Old wry faces, see, morose (4) 14 Pear-shaped pot had leak ulti- mately (6) 20 Gourmet's recipe (European)

21 g)

orrosive spoilt NEyacht (7) 24 I saw pert slattern (7) 25 Measure contents of cask — e.g. a gourd (5) 26 Paper first used type with de- corative feet (5) 28 Stir dispassionate mood (7) 31 Keeps away, bans destructives 37 Loads ads boats elsewhere (5) 38 Feast (no sea biscuits) (5) 40 Pursue Cain, biblical man (4) 41 Ingredient of synthetic rubber: it burned easily (9) 42 Eastern language druid used (4) DOWN I Mates, black Rook (6) 2 Mac's row with former mayor

3 35)

ustules containing spores bruised acacia (6) 4 Short, slim lemur of Sri Lanka

5) 5 Sandshoes 'd casual quality (7)

6 Alpine guy's elevated (7) 7 Conidial stage of fungi, acidic moulds (6) • 8 Old piece'? Yes, called for Spen- ser ,(8) 13 Mist? His window's filthy (7) 15 Fine day out — cool without cover (8) 19 Church oil's maybe in pyx (8) 23 Features of natural elements and hosts of epidotes (8) 27 Archaic, fabulous mediaeval tale

29 V)

ecord of wages (with bonus, happily) (7, two words) 30 Tries soup — watery (6) 32 In this cast, U-boat's used in ocean depths (6) 33 Japanese governor in USA? Hongkong (6)

35 Sew? Get extra needlework case (5)

36 NZ conifer (fir), oak, upas (5)