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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 17 April, 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 1457, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Stree , London WC1N 2LL.
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The unclued lights (six of two or more words), as three pairs and a trio, are of a timely kind. The other solutions are normal.
Address Name ACROSS 1 Collectors with worries about poor litho containing phosphorus (11) 7 Drunken spree's racket (3) 11 Arthurian heroine could be idle. So? (6) 13 Hunter or tramp out East in Hindu garment (7) 15 Scottish tool first handled at Iron Age tower (5) 16 It's welcome having wing round back of house (5) 18 Resin some fuel emits (5) 20 Sound of silence embraces toilets 21 With th price cut, it could be a corn chip! (5) 27 Can Gill come round, badly humming? (7) 29 Rules of drama first read on manuscript (5) 30 Science writer turns Mavis round (6) 32 Award to medical officer with cross (5) 34 Dull court with hide-away (6) 36 Ammoniac plant on but almost 37 Department gets small amount for vase (5) 38 Take in order with one's lattice- work (7) 39 Pressman representing most of Detroit (6) 40 Pixie is a German figure (3) 41 Changes into a slater (11) DOWN 1 Aware, at the same time, that company maxim has no mark (10) 2 Bird at Cape terminus (8) 3 Obscure colours mixed with gold (9) 6 Army rank suggesting Flash Harry (7) 7 Sweep black area (5) 9 Article on doctrine and belief in God (6) 10 It seals love and is in a state (5, two words) 14 Against sensible list drawn up for merger (12) 19 Sores going off, turns to stone (10) 23 Refreshing drink from pasture- land around forest (8, two words) 24 Curry and wine upset boy with spectacles? (8) 26 Awfully ambitious without double cotton outfit (7, hyphened) 28 Purely intellectual refusal upset quote (6) 31 Material of veil trimmed with love (5) 35 Azed redesigned tool (4)
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