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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 19 July, with two runners-up prizes of E10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1116, 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 1 Discharge from Eastern exploit

9 At(5) court I fiddled, entering account of despot (10)

11 Evening, with sound of wasp, by river (6) 12 Rascal about, backing perfunc- tory workman (7) 14 Persian prince held by emir, Zarathustrian (5) 15 Concerned with set response (5) 16 Tries transmuting carbon (rela- tive to arrangement of atoms) 23

erred badly about old English female animal (7, hyphened)

24 Remarkable, hard to believe (4) 27 Leading without Queen in anti- quated card game (7) 29 Penny, formerly wanton, is prudish (7) 32 Sailor on waterproof runways 34 Vliird-year buck once wounded by lake (5) 35 Clotho etc (female) – a spinning group (5) 36 Expound wrongly? Reams I'd amended (7) 37 Idle, look, head thrown back (6) 40 Minor planet waxes (5) DOWN 1 Listens for secrets, hearing girl and debtor splitting bribes (10)

4 Rotifers in coral – i.e. shaking (7)

5 Northern one in a vehicle, bright orange-red (7) 6 One half turned up, as previous- ly estimated (5) 7 Later changes in modest old priesthood (9) 8 Drunk without head – spooky (4)

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13 Time of day? Not quite accurate – of the moon (7)

15 Keep old terriers in control (6) 17 Support new ethic, like Isaiah? 18 kblem hat raised with girl (7) 21 Little boy and girl in striped cotton (6) 26 Horse's swelling? It's made to go without food (7) 28 Repeatedly counts lines in net- works of nerves (7) 30 Young salmon from Greek isle, maybe (6) 31 Club leader of Tuaregs in desert

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33 uss about worship (5) 34 Dirt? Stomach's rising (4)