CROSSWORD 1483: Great and small by Dumpynose

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 16 October, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the ry latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1483, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Stree , London WC1N 2LL.

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Two trios of unclued lights are each inked with a word: the line between these two words is drawn at 1A (two words)/8 (two words). One clued light includes an abbreviation.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Advanced fast (4) 11 Special pin being nicked by whole gang (10, two words) 12 A thousand diamond shiners (4) 14 Type dwarfed by English statesman (6) 16 Utterly brilliant knight (5)

17 Xosa takes a naira for seven statues (5)

20 Call dog over for entry minder (7)

21 Brown Sugar vocalist unknown (7)

23 Discontinue habit of nun with real woolly (7) 25 Cook or it's sandwiches! (5) 27 Acupressure suits a hospital in crisis (7) 30 Creditor among cretins acts like Scrooge (7) 32 Laconian city's retired governors

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37 Sectarian soul with trimmed locks (5) 38 Meteor injured one in Derby? (6) 39 Spirit of rear admiral with heart of viking (4) 40 Mineral's dirty smudges in worked chine (10) 42 Play for voices . . Shaw's behind inferior extract (13, three words) DOWN 1 Well-off poet's dog (5) 2 Demoralise peace-keeper? (5) 3 Be quiet about Asian capital equipment (6) 4 Barge with short timber forward part (5) 5 Alternative thinker lay south of Nebraska (7, two words) 6 Is a cat I trained Burmese? (7) 7 Like 5's music, inspiring awe unending . . golly! (6) 10 Like Columba in garret (devious taxer upstairs) (10, hyphened) 15 Councillor upset a few, wearing unfashionable red (8) 18 Not having died, agoraphobics stirred in coffins (10)

19 Current conductor tiring badly mid song (8)

26 Shakespeare filling out dramatic words for Hastings? (7) 28 Has the south of France repelled pious men? (7) 29 Evangelist jots down vacuous hymn (6, two words) 31 Put new section on viol, altering E to A (6) 33 Afrit irritated holy men (5) 34 Coins from China, numberless, round (5) 35 Handle ball (or sphere) (5)