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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 22 May, 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 1462, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Unclued across lights (one hyphened) each combine with a down one to suggest a coterie of contemporaries. Elsewhere ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 4 Low-down king has tangled with hard emperor (11, two words) 11 Corneal ruptures assigned to point of elbow (9) 12 Float-board left in millstream

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14 Carol backed Trotsky? (4) 15 Learned gnome (3) 18 Old Tory opposed to very boring vacuous Tony (7) 22 Poet's run through trees, trotting (no kidding) (6) 23 No fresh air fiend enters bird sanctuary (6) 24 Poverty's not concealed (5) 27 Female artist captures coal- scuttle (5) 29 Princess that's betrayed separates (6) 31 Rod's unreal (6) 34 Maybe euro depression's crushing independent Brit (7) 35 Combination of weapons both sides abandoned (7) 39 Turned round quickly, lacking courage (4) 40 Roller I ride from republic on a road boy blocks (11, two words) 41 Viol is indeed stringed instrument (5) 42 Children look perverse in pink plus friar's cowl (9) DOWN 2 Town on each side of America

3 Great eat beauty of goddess seduced forty-one (11, three words)

5 Fabled kidnapper, say, hiding siblings south of Lebanon (7, hyphened) 7 Poet records house wine's

peculiar flavour (6) 8 Gobble mega-slice and most of

cake (7) 9 One below weight exercises (4) 10 What's a hypotenuse next to? (9) 15 Council of teachers upset about end of history (5) 16 Figures past training espaliers (11) 17 Lay fancy cape in sandwich man's case (11) 20 Tamed a resolute old croc (9) 26 Jewellery for madam? (3) 28 Attack author's line (7) 30 Squalid spot works up one hav- ing day therein (7, two words) 32 Passing by, copper follows run- ner in vehicle (6) 33 Add gloria to deficient sound opera contains (6) 36 In the open air sun's fantastic (5) 37 Catty about Delia's middle oven (4)