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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 September, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1225, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The other unc ued lights (one of them hyphened) are of a kind, and may be found in 7D (in two senses).

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS

1 Ranks of legislature including us? (8)

6 Fine cake's eaten cold (6) 11 The lunar sight? Composition of sun and this (10, hyphened) 13 Armies, blimpish in part (5) 14 Definite fair share (8, hyphened) 16 Scale illustration (5) 17 Intestinal trouble makes one lie awkwardly and press back (7)

18 Is H-bomb awful matter of Leviathan? (7)

19 Spruce quality at points in Nova Scotia (9) 22 Gun dog returns (3) 23 Attempts retreat amid hush, all round (6)

24 Big fish French detective tailed (6)

26 Fool 'olds shilling (3) 32 We keep resorts working (7)

33 Use lawyers' jargon, perhaps, in a bar (7)

35 One Cortez converted — or dispatched (5)

36 Part of cow's rear limb, black one (8) 37 Instant tea and coffee (5) 38 Act as if in frenzied ecstasy? (10) 39 Twigs spelling tricks (6) 40 Bags book and runs (8)

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1 III temper chokes steamship navigators (14, hyphened) 3 E.g. Stonehenge element's fling, we hear: happy hour? (7) 4 Pen — avoid holding it upside- down (6, two words)

8 Scan tiny fluttering spasm of sleep-movement (11) 10 Crustaceans seaman contorts out of shape (14) 12 Class tease has note going round (5) 15 Love-god's severely upset (4) 20 Pay to climb volcano (4) 21 Fasten box (4) 25 Bill and Ted totally misbehaved (7, two words) 27 Poor side, too bony (7) 30 Life? About right (4) 31 Incursion of paparazzi appals

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34 With latest from 7, apprehend Scots expert at last! (4)

Solution to 1222: 12/8 The components of GROUSE MOOR (12 8) — where every GORCOCK (38) is fair game once THE GLORIOUS TWELFM (40 2 5) has arrived — sugc gested the other unclued lights.

First prize: C.J. Brougham, London W8. Runners-up: Mrs R. Dunn, Worcester; Keith Whitfield, Forest Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.