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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 23 May, with two runners-up prizes of 115 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1158, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 5 Hamlet, prince in endless throes, tormented (6) 9 Bird-catchers half cure injured rail, in a way (10) 14 Invite an offer (3) 17 Queen catching a journalist with listening equipment? (5) 18 Superior drama to treasure (5) 20 A place seething with hot jelly- fish (7)

22 Most pleasing atmosphere in party (7)

25 Think idly about interrupting mother? (5)

26 Mass? Mass is it! (5)

28 Tar pollution — do not drink (7) 33 Odd cults embracing fashionable medicine (7)

38 Seat of Conservative, old type (5)

39 Gene, in rainfall, elegant (6) 40 Starts to exploit great gold mine ) 42 Autocrat of French locality (6) 43 Last ice-cream cornet one held back (8) DOWN 1 Set fair, male is apt head of household (13) 2 Scales of seed-covering lifted black inside (5) 3 Ragged Scottish fellow eats fish up (6) 4 Strong diaper (5) 6 Hardly a twisted rope (7) 7 Look back on revolution that's weak (6) 8 Strip soft fish (4) 11 Tiresome person with stories no saint ridicules (9) 12 Abbot, a Catholic chap involved in shrouded liturgy (13) 15 Thousand, as a rule badly short of energy, room in spa (7) 19 Annoyed about party split in three (9) 21 Mountain climbing increasing strength of spiritual love? (8) 23 Wholly remarkable in sport (7) 29 Language graduates do nothing

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Fishes for points of view (6) 32 Hardest to please, in charge in gang? (6) 34 Turned up in motor, terribly old-fashioned (5) 35 Heathen power raised divine snake (5) 36 Run away, following Confeder- ate general (4)