Crossword 626

Apri • ze of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution Opened on 10 October. Entries to: Crossword 626, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 211.

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of a kind and all are in the 1983 Chambers. Ignore one accent.

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