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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 26 October, 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 1383, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Eddo rind fashioned like a tree (8)

8 Four points (or two) for a disputed interjection (4) 11 German free-thinkers assigned to literary coloured lettering (12) 12 Ungrateful person, a bigwig and monarch (5) 14 Film-making light for tanners (7) 16 Necklace for a Catholic (4) 17 Duck-eggs from Germany — with Germany included! (5) 18 Not a soul with rector at lunch- time activity (6) 23 Send for new rebellious movements (7) 24 Grass not accepted: that is fabric (6) 25 Makes fun of goulash stirred without love (6) 27 Eastern tailless sea-mammal to rise up (7) 33 All the changes are vicious (6) 34 In Scotland steep second-class road with fissure (5) 35 Smell from three kilns (4) 37 Campers' frames (7) 38 Phenol from heart of Piggy (5) 40 Cool-bag is English. Heavens above! (4) 41 Outlines £25 in tax return (8) DOWN 2 Author of The Liar (4) 3 Some French Princess upset chaperone (6) 4 Loiter around European shrub (7, hyphened) 5 Individuals embraced by Easterner or another (10) 6 Breaks up fish overlaid with plaster (7) 7 Queen and Sir altered way of expressing 81 (11, two words) 9 Low churchman is up with Protestant lacking new name (9) 10 Wit of an EU initiative (6) 15 Business poachers are cannibals (11) 19 The Spanish wander into race for fruit (10) 21 She gives away characteristic about liner (9) 26 Smeared with mud (golden) (7) 28 He has float to exploit on Isle

(7)

30 Spenser's dress in part turned up (6) 31 151's exact copies (6) 32 Guard beheaded in narrow lane

(5)

36 Stake a fortune (4)