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, November 22 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, December 8. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
1 Richard –––, British entrepreneur best known for his Virgin brand (7)
5 The main character, who wears a blue jacket, in a series of children’s books by Beatrix Potter (5,6) 10 The male of any duck (5) 11 Juliet’s father in Shakespeare’s Romeo
And Juliet (7)
13 The –––, symphony orchestra based in Manchester (5)
14 The – – –, ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation (9) 15 An autonomous community of Southern Spain on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (9)
16 The projecting jaws of a bird (4)
17 Decorations awarded to members of the US armed forces for wounds incurred in action (6,6) 20 A herb with feathery, strongly flavoured leaves (4) 21 A name for the French national flag (9)
22 Robert –––, 18th Century Scottish architect and designer who popularised a neoclassical style (4) 26 Soviet cosmonaut who was the first human to conduct a spacewalk (6,6)
27 – – – Of The d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy novel first published in 1891 (4)
29 The practice of artificially inducing a trance-like state of relaxation and concentration (9)
31 Samuel Taylor – – –,
English poet who wrote The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (9)
33 Powerful drug made from the seed capsules of a type of poppy (5)
34 Partners in marriage (7) 35 A tropical fruit with yellow skin and pink pulp (5) 36 Words such as ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘some’, ‘this’ and ‘each’, used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate which thing(s) one is referring to (11)
37 The convent or house of an all-female religious community (7)
Down
1 A person or group who escort and protect someone (9) 2 Crane-like bird native to Central and
South America (5) 3 See 28 Down
4 A sugary fluid produced by plants, collected by bees and other animals (6) 5 An ambassador from the Pope (5,6)
6 A city in North East Oklahoma on the Arkansas River (5)
7 In Greek myths, the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy, killed by Paris (8)
8 Ornamental railings with supporting sets of posts (11)
9 Pieces of leather or metal fitted over the end of shoes or boots to protect or strengthen them (7) 12 Puts things back in their proper places, makes neat (6,2)
16 One of a number of items printed in a list, marked by a centred dot or other symbol (6,5) 18 Removable, washable covers for bedding items (11)
19 Soft felt hats with indented crowns (8)
23 Someone hired to fight for a foreign army (9) 24 Person who works to improve existing institutions, laws and practices (8)
25 Nancy – – –, American figure skater who was famously attacked after a practice session in 1994 (8)
26 Town in Kent, England, the location of an international railway station (7)
28 and 3 Actress who took the lead role in Mike Leigh’s 1977 TV play Abigail’s Party (6,8) 30 Clement Clarke –––, author of the Christmas poem A Visit From St Nicholas (5) 32 To hang a cloth in loose folds (5)