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, November 3 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, November 19. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

10 A market in a Middle

Eastern country (6)

11 American actress who married Humphrey

Bogart in 1945, star of films including The

Big Sleep (6,6)

12 A pointed stick used in

driving cattle (4)

13 Adjustable chair designed

for relaxing on (7)

14 Mary ---, one of the first English women to achieve a reputation for her poetry, sister of fellow poet and scholar Sir Philip (6)

15 A herring or mackerel that has been salted in brine, smoked and cured (7)

16 Greek physician regarded as the father of medicine (11)

20 Another name for the

killer whale (4)

21 Surname of 20th-Century naturalist Gerald and his brother, novelist Lawrence (7)

22 Dessert consisting of ice cream topped with sweet sauces, nuts and whipped cream (6)

23 Insect with a long tail appendage and large transparent wings, found near water (6)

25 A brief account giving the main points of something (7) 27 --- off, to start play in a

game of football (4)

28 The light dough used to make profiteroles or eclairs (5,6)

29 Open to bribery or other

dishonest practices (7)

32 Thomas ---, Archbishop of Canterbury assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 (6)

35 See 36

36 and 35 British gymnast who won the bronze medal on uneven bars at the 2012 London Olympics (4,7)

37 Becomes a nun (5,3,4)

38 A semi-solid lump

of something (6)

Down

1 A garland of interlocking evergreen leaves, worn on the head to represent victory (6,6)

2 Harald ---, king of Norway who died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 (8) 3 County town of

Co. Kerry (6)

4 A mass of water or ice particles visible in the sky (5)

5 A soft wet area of land that gives way under the feet (8)

6 British Whig prime minister 1743-54, succeeded by his brother, the Duke of Newcastle (5,6) 7 Water that flows back

or recedes (4)

8 Precipitation that contains a high concentration of pollutants (4,4)

9 Ice ---, a sheet of ice, of variable size, floating in the sea (4)

17 --- Stoney, footballer turned coach who was capped 130 times for England (5)

18 The act of freeing, or state

of being freed (12)

19 A breed of large gun dog with a flat, soft, brownish-red coat (5,6)

21 To become barren or

unproductive (3,2)

24 William ---, American writer whose works include the novel The Sound And The Fury (8) 26 --- -Benz, German vehicle brand founded in 1926 (8)

27 Sport similar to basketball in which each team consists of four men and four women (8)

30 A lake in central New

York State, USA (6)

31 A charming or picturesque

scene or event (5)

33 In the Old Testament, the

twin brother of Jacob (4) 34 Fictional dog in the novel and film The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (4)