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A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 13 September, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1124, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 11 Mail-price review is resting on trial (9) 12 Golden member of Les Six (5) 13 Training one new RC who helps the poor (11) 14 Brief conversation about the drizzle (4) 15 Talk of the smell at room in a harem (3) 18 Poison producing scare around Province (7) 19 Run through and perform (7) 22 Fruit from singular cartoon strip 23 Iood consumed in almost all France! (6) 24 Middle-Easterner appearing at 1.25 almost (5) 27 It's seen and heard! (5) 29 Old sailing-boat cut up by lake 31 e about backing one's article, without difficulty (6) 34 I exhaust myself returning for former professors (7) 35 Feature on graph is round trench 38 Bell the cat (3)

39 Beginning of Fidelio cut: what a fiasco! (4)

41 Give satisfaction when lunch is served (5) DOWN 2 Drizzle over the border, in out- skirts of Stranraer (5) 3 Women in relation to men – they attract old flame (11, two words) 6 Take fashionable spirit to wel- come the New Year (6, two words) 7 Strengthen another theme word (6) 9 Instrument of clay (4) 10 Clubs' new tunic – revolution- ary! – with a belt (9) 15 Indian, for example, wrecking canoe (5)

17 French dolt left do for chewy plant (11, hyphened)

21 In Tilbury, Essex. Ay! (3)

26 Marginal reading raising disgust (3)

28 A mistake that is worthy of admiration (7) 30 Marginal note showing trouble about employment (7) 32 Individual in hollow, upset, and trenched, possibly (6) 33 Young South African thug may toss it around (6) 36 Common sense including new names (5) 37 Spots name in unit (4)