WIN €2,000 THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

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, January 19 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, February 4. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

1 Restricts in action or progress (7)

5 Plant organelle that conducts photosynthesis (11)

10 Partial or total darkness (5)

11 Threatens with violence or danger (7)

13 A belief, opinion or dogma (5)

14 A queen of Ancient

Egypt; chief consort of the pharaoh Akhenaten (9) 15 A small dog of a Tibetan breed, with a long straight dense coat (5,4)

16 The rendered fat from a pig, used in cooking (4) 17 Queen of England as the fourth wife of Henry VIII, born in Düsseldorf (4,2,6) 20 The capital of Valais canton, Switzerland, on the River Rhone (4)

21 In a quiet voice, so as not to be overheard (5,4) 22 Oscar De La ---, retired Mexican-American boxer who won world titles across six weight classes (4) 26 Intellectually challenging puzzles, problems or games (12)

27 A document permitting its bearer to travel into or through the country of the issuing government (4) 29 Nickname of Manchester United FC (3,6) 31 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Adolf

Hitler (4,5)

33 Having only a limited ability to react chemically (5) 34 Long flat vertical bone in front of the thorax (7) 35 A mountainous state of western Austria (5)

36 Town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, named by

Sir James Colquhoun after his wife (11)

37 A place where plants and young trees are grown commercially (7)

Down

1 Cleverly or originally devised (9) 2 In photography, a trial print from a negative (5) 3 Brown crystallised cane sugar from the Caribbean (8)

4 A meeting of chiefs of governments or other high officials (6) 5 Lucius Quinctius ---, Roman military leader and statesman regarded as a model of civic virtue (11) 6 --- anaesthesia, loss of sensation in a specific area of the body, induced by drugs (5)

7 Unexpected difficulties or dangers (8)

8 Russian ballerina after whom a meringue-based dessert was named (4,7)

9 Designs produced on the skin by pricking it and staining it with indelible colours (7)

12 1932 film starring

Paul Muni, inspired by Al Capone (8)

16 A greyish, spotted predatory aquatic mammal of the Antarctic (7,4)

18 Norwegian artist whose most famous work is

The Scream (6,5)

19 Small exclusive groups of friends or people with common interests (8)

23 Town on the River Tay in Scotland, mentioned in a Robert Burns poem and an Ed Sheeran song (9)

24 Having suffered no defeat (8)

25 Wilson ---, Kenyan-born Danish athlete who won gold in the 800m at three successive World Athletics Championships in the 1990s (8)

26 To make or become shiny or smooth by friction (7)

28 Jenny ---, British former racehorse trainer and author; the first woman to train a Grand National winner (6) 30 A facial expression of scorn or contempt (5)

32 Samuel ---, American inventor of the first electric telegraph and a communications code which bears his name (5)