THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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, July 14 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, July 30. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
10 The capital city of Turkey (6) 11 A 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about an expedition to the Amazon basin in South America (3,4,5) 12 Artificial heads of hair (4) 13 Woodwind instrument, played with a double reed (7) 14 --- Abbey, mansion in Bedfordshire, the seat of the Duke of Bedford (6) 15 In Arthurian legend, the most virtuous knight of the Round Table (7) 16 Another name for a werewolf (11) 20 The Golden ---, artwork by Damien Hirst, sold at Sotheby’s for £10.3m (4) 21 William ---, British physicist knighted in 1866 for his work on the transatlantic telegraph project (7) 22 See 6 Down 23 Thomas ---, American inventor who developed the phonograph and the electric light bulb (6) 25 Republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea (7) 27 Mr ---, character created by Roger Hargreaves, prone to horrible accidents (4) 28 A small, white, poodle-like dog with a silky, loosely curling coat (6,5) 29 --- Way, a long-distance footpath extending from Edale, Derbyshire, to Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders (7) 32 Bulk feed for livestock, especially hay, straw, etc (6) 35 A deciduous shrub with edible brown nuts, a species of hazel (7) 36 --- Prefect, a human-like alien writer for The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (4) 37 Word meaning ‘fond of music’, used in the name of orchestras, choirs, societies, etc (12) 38 Relating to the back or nape of the neck (6)
Down
1 The Prime Minister of India 1966-1977 and 1980-1984 (6,6) 2 Sir John ---, character who is a companion to Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays (8) 3 The ---, republic in West Africa, almost entirely surrounded by Senegal (6) 4 Informally, a secret store or something that is put away or hidden (5) 5 Substituted words referring to an attribute for the thing with which it is closely associated, for example, ‘the ring’ to mean ‘boxing’ (8) 6 and 22 Across Influential British economist who advocated interventionist government policy (4,7,6) 7 A dish of meat, fish or other food, cooked by long, slow simmering (4) 8 A region of Northern Central Italy, the capital of which is Milan (8) 9 British band whose last studio album was The Magic Whip (4) 17 A method of Indian cookery, in which meat is marinated in spices then cooked in a clay oven (5) 18 Dutch painter; an exponent of the abstract art movement De Stijl (4,8) 19 British Conservative secretary of state for war who resigned in 1963 following a famous scandal (4,7) 21 The projecting end of a piece of wood inserted into the socket or mortise of another piece (5) 24 A timetabled plan for a project (8) 26 --- Alley, Rod Stewart’s second studio album (8) 27 8th Century Christian missionary who became the patron saint of Germany (8) 30 Still living, surviving (6) 31 Dark freshwater game fish with a barbel at each side of the mouth (5) 33 Island in central Hawaii, the chief town of which is Honolulu (4) 34 To travel or walk about with no fixed purpose or direction (4)