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PORT A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 22 April, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1255, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued I ghts comprise an Easter gift and two associated quartets. Two lights are of two words; ignore one hyphen and three apostrophes. 11 is in Brewer (1989).

Name Address ACROSS 1 Parisian daily imbibes a drink 14 Dreadful eadful of mould, like judges of old? (7) 16 Source of varnish artist twice put over (4) 17 Liberal with eggs: ton, bluish- green? (5) 18 Find fault with almost lifeless script (6) 22 Perfume hummed, we hear 35 Poll parrot's last seen in bay (4) 37 Thanks hombres for Mexican meals (7) 38 Youngster in back of nest (5) 39 Get so involved with sharper 3-D pictures (12) 40 Some other Easter present (4) 41 E.g. tapir's throat part eaten by hunter after skinning (8) DOWN 1 Saw King, not without love (6) 2 Say Master Costard's riddle (4) 3 Old US tram strained to crawl, losing time (6, hyphened) 4 Enthralling note's inflamed liaison (7) 5 Spider one's disturbed in hollow (10) 6 Hoarding gold secured by theft

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7 Poorest of classes strain, going in for Latvian (11) 8 Moons around Greek province

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9 Most of fair flower's standing out (9) 10 Tipped, sesame spread (6) 25 27 29 34 intimated (8, two words) Communist head US bent (6) Lift posh bouquet (7) Hotbed led poets astray (8, hyphened) Eyes duck's egg, used in the kitchen? Not half (5) 13 Big red revised edition, bound

15 F(8 ancy seraphic lot bear fans? (11)

19 Character about English place is exotic to rani (10) 20 One bit in church decorated with leaves (8) 21 Dainty piece to pan (9, hyphened) 30 Large letter's unfriendly? Not so (6) Salmon close to finishing climb bites line (6) Blue pan (5) Club accepting hard cash in Thailand (4) 31 32 36