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PORT r A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 5 April, 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 1151, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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The other unc ued lights, and the 9D with its natural form of 15D (hyphened), are of the family 7D — mainly from 39A (two words), some of them 13D.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Loose lip I tape in American's exhaust tube (8)

8 Ages in camera, secretly (4)

11 Stubborn Conservative in article stirred up storm (12) 12 Peg's after gold stonecrop (5) 14 Lily, rather nimble (7) 16 Bengal quince (a beauty, it's said) (4) 17 Pound in Chinese money for magnolia (5) 18 Mac's hoop, short leg band (6) 22 Tertiary region back in Colora- do, I see (8) 23 Hollowed mouldings with tact I've renovated (7) 24 Old magistrate holds book fit for consumption (6) 25 Tug in great African monkey (6) 27 Stumble on crude oil, diatomite

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amase, in time, on SE shoreline (8, two words) 33 Red grapes, yes, in mouths (6)

34 Add million for revered object (5)

35 Racket brings in hard cash from Thailand (4) 37 Bankrupting IOUs run out (7) 41 Italian covering transaction is impractical type (8) DOWN 1 T' hooligan's in gutter (6) 2 Insubstantial nest (4) 3 Scottish landowners dead in their burial grounds (6) 4 Arctic coastal feature, that is, cut by cold sharp blow (7, hyphened) 6 We're told to test thin paint solvent (7) 8 Follow Eastern girl round North

10 Dramatic, thus bagging century (6) 19 Altered the misprinted addres- sed notepaper (10) 20 Syrup or worker's strengthening tonic (8) 21 Shop, we hear, maybe storing nothing American (9) 26 British Unionist in hackneyed testimony (7) 28 Daily issue brought up form of

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29 Tyrant bore censure (6) 30 Talk over title, without MP (6) 31 One posed without question in hunched way (6) 32 Deluge? Noah's installed jib (5) 36 Audibly startles huge birds (4)