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The crossword prize is a voucher for our online shop to the equivalent of £20/$30. Only the winner will be notified. Send your entries by 15 March to: New Internationalist Puzzle Page, The Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE, UK; or email a scan to: puzzlepage@newint.org Winner for 254: Anna Waldron, Lincoln, England.

CROSSWORD 255 by Axe

CRYPTIC ACROSS

9 Almost bucolic all over Italy, and in Rome to the west, here it’s pre-Roman (7)

10 Turned up in panama hat – airy, not hot, but cold in the desert (7)

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