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, February 3 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, February 19. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across 11 See 24 12 Character in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame (9) 13 Barbecued spiced meat cooked on skewers and served with a sauce (5) 14 An inert gaseous element used in fluorescent lights and lasers (7) 15 A hard, strong alloy of iron with carbon and other elements (5) 16 Close prison cells, often underground (8) 18 The 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 (6,4) 22 Northern sky constellation, the brightest star of which is Polaris (4,5)
24 and 11 British gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games (7,9) 27 The daughter of Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (7) 28 A naval commissioned rank junior to captain (9) 30 Large marine diving ducks, typically crested, with long, slender hooked bills (10) 32 An animal that kills and eats other animals (8) 35 Peter ---, English doctor, writer and inventor remembered known for his dictionary of synonyms known as the Thesaurus (5) 37 Nigel ---, British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1992 (7) 38 The Japanese art of fencing with bamboo swords (5) 39 In Greek mythology, a beautiful youth who fell in love with his reflection (9) 40 A person skilled in telling stories and anecdotes (9)
Down 1 The side of a vehicle furthest from the kerb (7)
2 and 38 US Baptist minister and civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 (6,6,4) 3 Humphry ---, English chemist who invented a type of safety lamp (4) 4 Philip ---, 20th Century poet whose verse collections included The Whitsun Weddings (6) 5 Samuel ---, English naval administrator and MP famous for his diary, first published in the 19th Century (5) 6 Musical instruments in the percussion family, also called timpani (11) 7 A sultanate on the Arabian Sea, the capital of which is Muscat (4) 8 Obliterated or rubbed out (6) 9 Paul ---, Swiss-born painter who taught at the Bauhaus with Wassily Kandinsky (4) 10 A European style of architecture inspired by the designs of a 16th Century Venetian architect (9) 17 A frame used for supporting or displaying an artist’s canvas, blackboard, etc (5) 19 The capital city of Ghana (5) 20 The --- ---, nickname of Prince James, Prince of Wales, the son of the deposed James II of England (3,9) 21 The representation of a person or thing in a historical context in which it could not have existed (11) 23 Resources or income (5) 25 Gave support to; helped or assisted (5) 26 A curved, flat wooden missile of native Australians (9) 29 A large cabinet, originally used for storing weapons (7) 31 County in the North East of Northern Ireland (6) 33 Things that have survived from the past, such as objects or customs (6) 34 Striped mammal of the horse family, native to southern and eastern Africa (5) 36 A Hindu or Sikh religious teacher or leader (4) 37 A thick, brown salty paste made from soya beans, used to flavour savoury dishes in Japanese cookery (4) 38 See 2