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W.& J.

GRAHAM'S

PORT r A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 23 August, 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 1121, 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 Imitator dispensing rare port (8) 5 Tufts from garden plant, it's said (6) 10 Shrub has bucolic origins (10, hyphened) 12 Talkative person backing sailors in hoax (6, hyphened) 13 Wipe a black bird's back (8) 17 Issued US magazine, returned to Heath (7) 18 A Highlander wandering in Salen (7) 20 During the middle of the week, natter about having an alimentary canal (8) 25 Siamese fish — no! (3) 26 See 42 (7) 28 Mercenary's boot (7) 31 Mongrel may crash boats (8) 34 Social provision from Post Office or Scottish hill (7, two words) 36 Expensive French food outside Indian courthouse (7) 39 Endure Lincoln getting hard- hearted (5) 40 Casually motored out East for dashboard instrument (8) 41 Pub employee and graduate in store (6) 42 Executions: jokes about 26 gett- ing beheaded, somehow (10) 44 Seeing that once in Chester, right away, maybe (8) DOWN 2 Capital set-up rotates mathemat- ically (8) 6 Straight edge for scraping off this! (4) 8 Measurements around English casks (4) 9 Trounced and depressed (8) 11 Stone Age artefact was not on fire in state (7) 14 Divine Scottish river is uttered (4) 15 Pole going in before bird (4) 16 Study of human movement affecting only 8 old ones (11) 19 Enthusiastic about headless horse (4) 21 A people of Japan having fashionable gold exterior (4) 22 Mac's strip causes commotion! Not half (4) 23 Novelist ordering side-arms (8, two words) 25 Claywork (4) 27 Refill your glass — note the cost 30 oncert favouring Mahler's First (4

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tors ( or — , maybe) (4) 35 Excites ineffectual people, it's said (5) 37 Border of Cockney garden? (4) 38 German male with car (4)