THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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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, April 19 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, May 5. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
10 South –––, Midwestern US state, home of Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills (6) 11 Small tart with an almondflavoured filling (4,2,6) 12 Johann Sebastian –––, German Baroque composer and musician whose works include the Brandenburg Concertos (4) 13 Shortened name for the week that begins with the seventh Sunday after Easter (7) 14 Densely populated area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority (6) 15 A sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist (7) 16 Magical nanny created by the novelist P.L. Travers (4,7) 20 Deep-sea member of the cod family with an elongated body, large head and sharp teeth (4) 21 Republic in North Europe, on the Baltic Sea (7) 22 Rules made by a local authority, applying to its area (6) 23 ––– flat, an apartment with one main room (6) 25 Black substance mixed with gravel and used in roadsurfacing and roofing (7) 27 Captain –––, Peter Pan’s arch-enemy in J.M. Barrie’s play (4)
28 and 29 American lawyer and author best known for his Perry Mason stories (4,7,7) 29 See 28 32 In Norse myths, the dwelling place of the principal gods, the Aesir (6) 35 Surname of Only Fools And Horses characters Del Boy and Rodney (7) 36 Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam (4) 37 A doctor who specialises in the heart and its diseases (12) 38 Term used in formal correspondence to refer to the previous month (6)
Down
1 Colloquial phrase meaning crazily eccentric (3,2,1,6) 2 Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991 (3,5) 3 Capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia, start point of the Stuart Highway (6) 4 – – – ceremony or – – – Sanchar, the Sikh ceremony of initiation into the Khalsa (5) 5 The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (8) 6 20th Century British science-fiction writer, author of The Day Of The Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (4,7) 7 Tupac: A ––– Life, a collection of writings on the rapper Tupac Shakur published in 2005 (4) 8 An association of national police forces, with headquarters in Lyons, devoted chiefly to fighting international crime (8) 9 John –––, late actor who starred in films including The Elephant Man and 1984 (4) 17 The curved path followed by a planet, satellite or comet (5) 18 Fighting force established in 1645 during the English Civil War by the Parliamentarians (3,5,4) 19 The state of being alive on Earth in a particular form (11) 21 Robert –––, American poet noted for his lyrical verse on country life in New England (5) 24 People who are very strongly opposed to change and new ideas (8) 26 The administrative capital of South Africa, birthplace of entrepreneur Elon Musk (8) 27 Outlets from a water main usually consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached (8) 30 A central hall that extends through several storeys of a building (6) 31 To articulate fully and formally, assert (5) 33 Slang word for property obtained by theft or other illicit means (4) 34 An Arab lateen-rigged sailing vessel with one or two masts (4)