CROSSWORD 1327: Leading lights by Columba

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 22 September, 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 1327, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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I43 Brewer confirms the identity of the unclued lights, individually or as pairs. One light is of four words; three are hyphened (one dou- bly, one triply). Ignore three apostrophes. The unclued lights' barred-off letters could give JOKE PATH WHICH WE JOINED IN LINE.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Description of nature, gory, has hippy in a tizzy (12)

10 Scots clasp fruit, eating seconds (4) 12 Game tilted against amateurs (10) 14 Itch to be in the Ukraine (3) 17 Primate's love proclaimed (5) 18 Coarse stuff in western commercial upset lama (7) 22 Rain so miserably buckets and buckets (6) 24 Introduce old 2001, enthralled by it (5) 26 Lead hilt's damaged on edge (9) 27 Name applied to leaders of Jacobite unrest, refusing oath re successors (9) 29 Army sorted out armoured thing (5) 31 Chicken or canary? (6) 34 Jack's mate getting hot aboard ocean steamer (6, hyphened) 39 English labour, at start of Iliad, over Greek (8) 40 Peg wants me so much (3) 41 Fine American union (10) 42 Missile striking right in a line (4) DOWN 2 Stalwart hurt after a hook (10, three words) 4 See crude lie within metal here?

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5 Fighter's cheerful, with round one over (9) 6 Academician p-pays for oils (6) 7 Drink up in Samoa heartily (5) 8 Scottish town's no gross scene of eruptions (4) 11 Enraptured about hairstyle, promenade (8) 16 One who's exhausted banter (3) 20 Lots apprehending hard times (6) 21 Pluto? Very big in hell — or influential planet (10) 23 Bumper, say, beat Lancashire's opening bat (9) 25 Digger's to ring bad maker of cloches? (8) 28 Stop that topless US topper (7, hyphened) 30 Labour leader (pre Tony B) stokes up outcry (6) 32 Frequently having tango (3) 33 Tree, a distant one (5) 35 Wine (not weak) as drunk in Tuscan city (5) 37 Green trap (4)