THE PRIZE CROSSWORD WIN €2,000
There’s an amazing €2,000 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. Entries must arrive by Friday, June 17 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, July 3. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck! Across 1 Westminster road providing a ceremonial approach to Buckingham Palace (3,4) 5 Pharrell Williams single featured in the movie Despicable Me 2 (5) 8 ––– Gold Cup, flat race run each June at a Berkshire racecourse (5) 13 Fighters in small, irregular forces, their name being taken from the Spanish word for war (10) 14 Asgardian hall presided over by Odin (8) 15 One million of the standard unit of electrical resistance (6) 16 Rowdy Roddy –––, professional wrestler who also appeared in films such as They Live (5) 17 The cube root of 729,000 (6) 18 Large rat which is the martial arts master of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (8) 20 ––– Sark, British tea clipper built in 1869 and currently in dry dock at Greenwich (5) 21 Oread who fell in love with Narcissus in Greek mythology (4) 23 Large arid area in the states of Western and South Australia (5,8,6) 27 Donald –––, jazz trumpeter who released the albums Royal Flush and Free Form (4) 28 Chess piece that can move any number of squares diagonally, horizontally or vertically (5) 29 Naval term for passages on ships leading from the quarterdeck to the forecastle (8) 31 Zodiac sign of people born in late May or early June (6) 33 ––– Hubble, American astronomer after whom the orbiting space telescope is named (5) 35 Croatia’s capital city (6) 37 Asian part of modern day Turkey historically known as Asia Minor (8) 38 Large dogs also called German Mastiffs (5,5) 39 Spinning –––, a multispindle frame once used in the textile industry (5) 40 City in the northern part of Italy close to the border with Slovenia (5) 41 ––– Wilberforce, politician remembered for leading the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade (7) Down 2 US TV medical drama that ran from 2004-12 (5) 3 Electrical engineer awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to wireless telegraphy (7) 4 Short, constantly recurring melodic phrase suggesting a character or theme (9) 6 Story teller credited with authorship of the fables The Ant And The Grasshopper and The Fox And The Grapes (5) 7 Luciano –––, Italian tenor who died in 2007 (9) 9 The ––– Steel Rat, a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison (9) 10 Young, nocturnal, strigiform bird of prey (5) 11 Ally –––, red-nosed comic character created for the satirical Judy magazine in the 1860s (6) 12 Tom –––, US author whose novel Patriot Games featured Prince Charles and Princess Diana (6) 19 The –––, Blake Edwards film in which Peter Sellers plays Hrundi V. Bakshi 20 A coin worth five shillings prior to decimalisation (5) 22 ––– Houdini, stage name taken by the escapologist Erik Weisz (5) 24 Stop, Look –––, a Donna Summer single released in 1984 (3,6) 25 The largest city in Ohio (9) 26 Gaetano –––, Italian composer born in Bergamo in 1797 (9) 28 Kate Winslet film also starring Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade (6) 29 The –––, river flowing through India and Bangladesh that is sacred to Hindus (6) 30 Any bird of the Motacilla and Dendronanthus genera (7) 32 Random number generator built by the Post Office in 1957 to make the Premium Bond draw (5) 34 BBC TV chat show that ran from 1982-92 (5) 36 ––– Ceausescu, wife of Romania’s Communist leader Nicolae (5)