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, September 7 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, September 23. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across 10 A river in South Central France, rising in the Cévennes and flowing North to the Loire (6) 11 Spanish artist, the co-founder of Cubism, whose works included Guernica (5,7) 12 Kate –––, former chief news correspondent for BBC News, who received the Bafta Fellowship in 2018 (4) 13 Flat piece of wood or plastic used by artists as a surface on which to mix their paints (7) 14 In music, a movement or piece to be performed slowly (6) 15 Ingmar –––, Swedish film and stage director whose films included The Seventh Seal (7) 16 Otto ––– –––, the first Chancellor of Germany (1871-1890) (3,8) 20 The local name for the River Thames at Oxford (4) 21 The brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor (7) 22 Forgotten –––, the Imperial War Museum’s oral archive of interviews with 20th Century war survivors (6) 23 A flag flown by a ship to indicate nationality or allegiance (6) 25 Restaurant serving sliced meats with unlimited servings of side dishes for a fixed price (7) 27 ––– Wars, two conflicts (1880-1881 and 1899-1902) in which British troops fought in South Africa (4) 28 Tall South American plant with long, sharp leaves, cultivated for its large, feathery flower plumes (6,5) 29 The last king of Lydia, noted for his great wealth (7) 32 The relative position or standing of a person or thing (6) 35 Claudette –––, Frenchborn American actress who won a Best Actress Oscar for 1934’s It Happened One Night (7) 36 Long-handled implements with light blades, used to till the soil and eradicate weeds (4) 37 Large prawns or scampi, also known as Dublin Bay prawns (12) 38 In Greek myths, one of the three Furies, or infernal goddesses, along with Megaera and Tisiphone (6) Down 1 Leguminous plant with yellow-and-red flowers and membranous, inflated pods (7,5) 2 Lines of descent from ancestors (8) 3 A spirit distilled from the fermented remains of grapes after pressing (6) 4 A thin strip of wood or twisted paper with which fires or non-electric lamps are lit (5) 5 Another name for a slaughterhouse (8) 6 A portable cradle for a baby, often made of straw or wicker (5,6) 7 The capital city of Peru (4) 8 A port in South West Japan, on West Kyushu, almost completely destroyed in 1945 by an atomic bomb (8) 9 A city in North West Italy famous for its sparkling wine (4) 17 A cultivated variety of cabbage, with a compact head and wrinkled leaves (5) 18 An orange-flavoured pancake flambéed in a liqueur or brandy (5,7) 19 A form of energy that can be carried by wires (11) 21 Members of an antiestablishment movement at its height in the mid-1970s (5) 24 A contagious, bacterial skin infection (8) 26 Heroine of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (8) 27 Leonid –––, President of the Soviet Union 1977-1982 (8) 30 The prescribed or established form of a religious or other ceremony (6) 31 Poetry, as distinct from prose (5) 33 A light, two-wheeled carriage (4) 34 A terrestrial gastropod mollusc, a common garden pest (4)