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1082: Overseas port by Smokey

A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 9 November, With two runners-up prizes of LIO (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1082, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The title and the unclued lights (disregard three hyphens) have something in common. Ignore two accents. Chambers excludes a place-name.

Name Address ACROSS 1 One editor back in publishing takes charge (8) 10 Overseer takes top vehicle to work (10) 12 Unruly vixen, note, annoying (6) 13 Theatre employee's more punc- tual (8) 16 Trouble in Ayr, endless crisis in street (5) 18 Primitive Ionic's variable (7) 20 Bear wanders in gallery without vaults (8) 25 Old hoax – endless panic (3) 28 No short letter? Wrong, it is! (7) 29 Individual, old? Not Old (3) 31 Tortoise quietly enters field (8) 34 Vehicle's cog broke in sudden movement ( 36 Some awful louts doing a ton? (7, hyphened) 39 Regarding N. Midlands town (5) 40 Paint mixed once with black look (8) 41 Tories converted Sally? (6) 42 A writer, we hear, cuts supple- ments (10) DOWN 1 Dad has to grip US shield (6) 3 Stage qualification (6) 6 Lady among fair maidens (4) 7 Chap gets the allowance, dam- mit! (11) 8 A retainer cutting each fruit-tree

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ent boat out: will this speed things up? (8) 11 Freely fly round row (7) 14 Seaweed round West, over in Skye (4) 15 Nut pie? (4) 16 New arc-lit stage, well-planned (11) 19 Eye headless spectre (4) 21 Con's reported bet (4) 22 God's house in Turkey (4) Dictionary prizes are sent 23 Form of waste disposal design has bend, throwing up effluvium (8) 24 Scrooge initially calls to mind Insect he

25 s c(7) wed up leaf (4)

27 Disapproves of corrupt old peers (8) 30 Parrot from East, not quite jog endlessly

31 ChinesMusical e ( 4g)r up j

're told, in leather

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33 kun naked for stretch up North (6) 37 Worker on a square column (4) 38 A number of tracks on Southern mountains? (4)

Solution to 1079: Developing debs

The unclued lights were all Dames of the British Empire (DBEs).

First prize: Mrs P. S. Hadley, Hel- ston, Cornwall; Runners-up: Miss Martin-Jones, King's Lynn; Mrs N. Twickel, Shipston on Stour, War- wicks.

out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.