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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 10 November, 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 1334, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one doubly hyphened), including two when correctly paired, are thematic. Elsewhere ignore one accent.

Name Address ACROSS 11 Slaughter one making bugle-call

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12 Reputation we received causing blazes (5) 14 One placed in candlestick for girl (6) 16 Run out before model's returned for sandwiches (5) 20 Bill's after neat aerofoil (7)

21 Greek girl crossing lake, eastern 23 Mind nd about Liberal character

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24 Ogle English boy embracing one (5)

25 Plump canon (5) 27 Witty remarks made by Sweden supporters (7) 30 Bass in club (7) 31 Alloys? OED's wrong about note on one (7) 35 Some NT extract? (4) 36 Poisonous protein produced by diseased brain (5)

38 Worry about head of executive — old sod (5)

39 Plant from Turkey, one beside mother (7) 40 Oxygen for each worker's effective (7) 41 Language used in chant at game causes bitter row (13, two words) DOWN 1 Rye is drunk around Maine with mineral (5) 2 Poverty is still there in part (5) 3 Full of gossip, all bridge players? Yes, initially (5) 4 Being dined like a blade? (6) 5 Greatly upset southern milliner

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6 Swimmer has drink with spouse

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7 One's in tune playing with critical discrimination (6) 10 More enter Open? (10. hyphened) 13 Woodworker from Eton is upset about onset of blight (7) 15 MPs mingling with earls, old types (8) 18 Giant Irishman has struggle with Scot: (10) 19 Coax suave one's husband (8) 22 Sauce from yobbo in letter (7) 26 Dagger causing resentment (7) 28 Wally, for example, has first- rate weapon (7) 29 Writer may have one in class (6) 32 Timid creature married in Muslim sacred place (5) 34 Curved handle hasn't broken (5)