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, July 13 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, July 29. you must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRiD for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
10 A landlocked republic in East Africa (6) 11 American writer whose orks include the 1948 novel The Naked And The Dead (6,6) 12 Farm outbuilding for storing crops or for housing livestock (4) 13 Removed from an office or position of power or rank (7) 14 A small lump or swelling in the body (6) 15 Mrs –––, 1942 romantic war film for which Greer Garson won a Best Actress Oscar (7) 16 Nickname of the first Mexican Revolutionary general, assassinated in 1923 (6,5) 20 A river in North England, flowing East to the North Sea (4) 21 A photograph or film or TV shot taken in near proximity (5-2) 22 Person who is confined to an institution such as a prison or hospital (6) 23 The system of government in the Roman Catholic Church (6) 25 John – – – – – –, British author of espionage novels including The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (2,5) 27 ––– Weber, American silent filmmaker and actress posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 (4) 28 Musical instruments in the percussion family, also called timpani (11) 29 Kenneth –––, actor and filmmaker, the current president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (7) 32 A dormant volcanic mountain massif in Eastern Turkey, said to be the resting place of Noah’s Ark after the Flood (6) 35 Amelia –––, notable US aviator whose plane vanished without trace in 1937 (7) 36 A trademark, company emblem or similar device (4) 37 Irish writer and painter played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1989 film My Left Foot (7,5) 38 The standard monetary unit of the Czech Republic (6)
Down
1 American frontierswoman born Martha Jane Canary (8,4) 2 Louis –––, Irish poet and playwright, one of the Thirties Poets or Auden Group (8) 3 In golf, a score of one stroke under par for a hole (6) 4 To attack or criticise from a position of security (5) 5 A port in East Australia, the capital of Queensland (8) 6 A racecourse in Merseyside (7,4) 7 A phenomenon or occurrence regarded as a sign of future happiness or disaster (4) 8 The dominant religion of India (8) 9 Alexander Graham –––, Scottish-born scientist credited with inventing the telephone (4) 17 Evergreen tree with fragrant white flowers, cultivated for its edible shiny black fruits (5) 18 Business person who leases properties on behalf of their owners (7,5) 19 A contact sport in which two teams of skaters race around an oval track (6,5) 21 River which flows through Glasgow, birthplace of the QE2 launched in 1967 (5) 24 Any of numerous small rocky objects that orbit the sun (8) 26 A republic in Central Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea (8) 27 A person who owns and leases property (8) 30 Mark –––, 20th Century Russian-American painter known for Four Darks In Red (6) 31 A state of the North East US, on the Atlantic (5) 33 Traditionally, the chief coal mining and industrial region of Germany in North RhineWestphalia (4) 34 Josip Broz –––, president of Yugoslavia between 1953-1980 (4)