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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 31 May, 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 1159, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' Service, ACROSS 1 'E has weapon in width of hand (8) 8 Some wanted a milder cheese (4) 11 Style of boat design from bulle- tin Rick edited (12, hyphened) 12 Old money for turbulent back- woodsman (5) 14 Port that's sharper in taste (7) 16 Nag left in but (4) 17 Four limp round piece of turf (5) 18 With wings folded like bot, etc, maybe (6) 22 Continental opera confused with French one (8) 23 Homer breaking ulna with hard growths (7) 27 Odd sort by odd platform (7) 29 Mineral that is granite when nitrogen is added (8) 33 Turning again after black sheep's sound (6) 34 I bit off a bone (5) 35 Bundle of hay by one river- valley (4) 37 Worthless person breaking legs on Scottish grooves (7) 38 Jugs for Cockney fellers (5) 39 'White Barrels' serving snack (12, two words) 40 Dinner in the home, altogether (4) 41 Ascetic Jews bearing cloudy Tokay wines (8) DOWN 1 Shakespeare's Archbishop conspiratorial rchbishop (6) 2 Plan of field with burn (4) 4 Team-mate losing money order- ing 40 (7, hyphened) 5 Air-travel out East may cause passengers to do so (10, two words) 6 NZ reptile an Academician, getting tense, lifted (7) 7 Perfumed cleanser for the Royals' pensioner (11, two words) 9 Vigilant watcher upsetting an author during tribunal (9) 13 Battle about new rate of trans- port charges by river (8) 15 Like a clerk, in fact, round centre of Paris (11) 19 Apples from middle of square having unusual redness, almost (10) 20 Hold up member on reserve. That's bats! (8)

21 Tea-rose I'd developed having lichenous reproductive organs (9)

26 You and 1 in the middle of central USA (7) 28 Gold coin and copper coin for the 'Hollows' (7) 31 Discharges, say, and sets off (6) 36 Lake up-country (4)