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, August 19 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, September 4. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
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1 See 4 4 & 1 Reality TV star and entrepreneur who is the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2016 US Presidential race (6,5) 8 Sam’s surname in the TV sitcom Cheers (6) 12 Latin word meaning ‘in the same place’, used in publishing references (6) 13 Coniferous forests extending across subarctic North America and Eurasia (5) 14 Holiday period during which a parliament is not sitting (6) 15 Microscopic creature such as an amoeba or rotifer (10) 16 Fortified palace situated in Granada, Andalusia (8) 17 Brian –––, former player in the England Rugby Union team 1987-95 (5) 19 The ––– Box, a film starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee based on a Poe story (6) 22 ––– Weather, jazz song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler in 1933 (6) 25 National anthem of France (3,12) 28 Sportswear company founded in 1895 in Bolton, Lancashire as J.W. Foster and Sons (6) 29 Europe’s second-longest river after the Volga (6) 30 Dwarf planet in the solar system’s Kuiper belt (5) 32 Music suite by Grieg that contains In The Hall Of The Mountain King (4,4) 35 Colloquial term meaning on foot (6,4) 37 Dalziel’s detective partner in a series of novels by Reginald Hill (6) 38 Fred the –––, nickname for banker Fred Goodwin whose knighthood was annulled in 2012 (5) 39 Treaty of –––, international agreement signed by EU members in 2007 amending the Maastricht Treaty (6) 40 Character played by Josh Holloway in the TV series Lost (6) 41 ––– Liberty, an international airport in New Jersey (6) 42 ––– Carter, actress remembered for playing Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s (5)
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2 Maiden name of Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States (8) 3 20th Century device for connecting computers via a telephone line (5) 5 TV sitcom starring Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis that ran from 2007-14 (11) 6 ––– Carter, daughter of Jennifer and Brian Aldridge in The Archers (5) 7 Ancient Roman goddess of the hunt and the Moon (5) 8 Anything that can go wrong will go wrong (7,3) 9 ––– tenens, a person standing in temporarily for another in a professional capacity (5) 10 A Joseph Conrad novel, also the name of the spacecraft in the film Alien (8) 11 The –––, a poem written by William Blake circa 1803 (5) 18 An Amy Whitehouse song on the album Back To Black (5) 20 ––– Colour Scene, band that had a hit with The Riverboat Song in 1996 (5) 21 Organ under the liver that stores bile and injects it into the duodenum (4,7) 23 Archaic name for the common blackbird (5) 24 Ursine mascot used in the US to educate the public about the danger of forest fires (6,4) 26 Historical region of what is now Guyana, famous for its sugar production (8) 27 The ––– prison experiment, a 1971 psychological study of authoritarianism (8) 31 Bony structure consisting of the cranium and the mandible (5) 33 ––– Hatton, former professional boxer with the nickname The Hitman (5) 34 Cathy –––, English actress in Mona Lisa, also Andrea Hayworth in Emmerdale (5) 35 Jack –––, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, also the name of the Home Secretary 1997-2001 (5) 36 ––– Galore, Goldfinger character played by Honor Blackman in the film adaptation (5)