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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 23 August, 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 1425, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights and those clued without overall definition are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Mark in brand of fine glaze (5) 4 Bird-handlers attacked calf with heavy blows (9) 9 New citation about response inimical to life (10) 11 Feline weight (5) 14 Girl sent back item of value (5) 15 Grieve at mountains out east (5) 21 Girl cancelled small reduction (8, two words) 22 Last bits of anther on flower causing sneezing (7) 24 Half the anonymous works show Milton's underworld (4) 25 Mail-office (4) 27 See lush varieties wholly without colour (7) 28 Lily and Rosa cavort like Jack? (8) 34 Prayer omitted Sabbath (5) 35 Klein twisted old tape (5) 37 North America's money coming into being (7)

39 London Underground's included Edgewearl (10, two words)

40 Society girl turned drapes over cover (9) 41 Daughter's seething anger (5) DOWN 1 Zoom-lens seeks out result of clean-air act (13, two words) 2 Dessert for top dresser? (6) 3 Moor is Shakespeare's recluse (6) 5 Ancient Yemeni people going up and down (4, two words) 7 Fabric for two tailless numbers

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8 Revolutionary crowds revised copies (8) 10 Display of chap smashing into 4D (13) 13 Rotation of crops in Ohio (7) 15 Done out in an instant (6) 17 Makes out: stretches; rests (6) 19 River's massive breakwater around south-east latitude (7) 20 To cast off soft feathers is in! (6) 23 It's consequential o' a red rag, maybe, to a driver (8, two words) 26 Athletic coach's footwear (7) 29 Ashen friend with hat on (6) 30 Related to wealthy person (not male) (6) 36 Doubly thematic parrot (4)