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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 17 January, 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 1140, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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I Pop round with little desire for food (8). 5 Avoid accepting one manuscript without reason (6)

14 To bewitch, Holbein omits odd features (3) 17 Severe bore (5) 18 A gunner wearing religious tur- ban (5) 20 Curer of snake-bite twice? Wrong (7) 24 One of the 11 covered goal fabulously (7) 25 In extremes of smarminess, 'um- ble Uriah oozes (5)

26 Gates at Murrayficld, certainly without one who shuns Scotch! (5)

28 Moral filth stopped by superior book like Dante? (7) 31 Got up loVe note – rash (7) 33 Youth, taken aback, is embraced by fine harem slave V 37 ) erth's flashy dressers will air snazzy clothes (5) 38 Steer wrecks to harbour in old Aberdeen (5) 39 Greek character, in leaving rela- tive, is slimy (6) 41 RestoreS faulty reed organs (10) 42 Cast down since interrupting a kip? (6) DOWN 1 They're where measures develop dash as Morse symbol (13, two words) 2 Begs for guineas (5) 3 Elderly peered in at W.I. rede- velopment (6) 4 Peg folds the French tissues (5) 6 Poets making lines up during combat? (7) 7 Wild sheep loudly ramming hyb- rid one (both clipped) (6) 8 Throw the female diamonds (4) 10 Banter and chatter upset slattern (6, hyphened) 12 Religion for the time being shel- ters saint against society (13) 13 Swell and fancy product of mine? (8) 15 Satisfy chimp, say, with infusion of vegetables (7) 21 Checks less pure rocks (8) 23 No answer to one of Paul's epistles – they're hugely influen- tial (7) 27 Convinced about fuel pollution 29 Hard rd boozer wanting doctor in Germany (6) 30 If a car's faulty, take apart the dashboard (6) 32 Rigorously accurate in speech (6) 34 Yellow garland over window (5)

35 Very pale Anglo-Saxon woman? (5)