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1163: Anagram by Mass

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 June, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1163, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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A tw 1-word phrase, two disregarded hyphens and three plurals, are among the unclued lights which form two thematic quartets. Anagrams and part anagrams in the clues are not indicated.

Name Address ACROSS 6 Glaring fellow's left bony pike (6) 12 So, a means to communicate with cross-connections (10) 13 Ameer's ancient kingdom (5) 14 Pursuer, encroaching one (7) 15 Fasteners for dress? Puts on last of buttons (10, two words) 16 Take in coal that is for measure of heat (7) 20 Dead epic (4) 22 Branch line (NE), right for for- mer tripper (7) 23 Spenser's eas archaic character y absorbs one 4)

24 Long-handled pan, still in collec- tion (7)

26 Chants introducing East Indian dance performances (7) 30 Sober, inwardly cold fish (4) 31 Pad re-blots (7) 34 Spread grass around northern incline (4) 36 Eloquent types, before. Astor (7) 38 Compensation in AA report (10) 39 Farmer's enclosed English plot again (7) 40 Subject, say, in press (5) 41 Seeds waken in plants like dock (10) DOWN

2 Aboriginal shield's hard laminae (8 )

3 Bit-part amounted to nothing (5) 4 Glib liar, about legal right to enter UK (7) 5 Rates in SE? Settles up (7) 7 Some swindler, or term for con- man (6) 8 Fast losing power, worn out (5) 9 Outside, she raised root plants (13) 10 US rural expert arrives in hands of Rebel (13, hyphened) 17 Seek local newt (3) 25 Herb from the Northern Spanish region, we hear (8) 27 Plot some boer farmed (3) 28 One who strips ropes binding the Italian (7) 29 Rowed, being crossed (7) 32 Pirate's brand, to a T (6) 33 Elmen, including first-class glos- sy finish (6) 35 Worry costs energy (5) 37 Site encompasses old, old French lineal measure (5)