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, May 3 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, May 19. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
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1 A restaurant’s front-ofhouse manager (6,6)
8 Sue ---, British tennis player who won the
1976 French Open (6)
11 Very rare radioactive element named after the homeland of its discoverer, Marie Curie (8) 12 Commonplace and lacking originality (5)
13 Howlin’ ---, 20th-Century American blues singer and guitarist (4)
14 A gambling game in which numbers selected at random are called out and players mark them off on individual cards (5) 15 People who are from
80 to 89 years old (13)
17 The right side of an aeroplane or vessel when facing the nose or bow (9)
19 City in the central
Netherlands; scene of the 1579 signing of the Union of --- (7)
23 Kurt ---, German-born educationalist who founded Gordonstoun School and helped establish the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme (4) 24 Norwegian statesman who was the first secretary-general of the United Nations (6,3)
25 ‘-- --, Brute?’ Latin phrase used poetically to represent the last words of Julius Caesar (2,2)
26 In a medieval story, the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, who fell in love with his uncle’s bride, Iseult (7) 28 Spanish novelist, poet and playwright whose greatest work was Don Quixote (9) 31 Genus of bacteria causing scarlet fever and throat infections (13)
34 Jasper ---, American artist associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada and pop art (5)
36 --- Kumble, former Indian cricket captain who took more than 600 Test wickets (4)
37 --- Gandhi, longest-serving and current president of the Indian National Congress (5)
38 See 16 Down 39 A tree of tropical India and the East Indies, having aerial roots that grow down into the soil (6) 40 A system used by some animals to determine the position of objects (12)
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In Greek mythology, a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite (6)
3 Patrick ---, actor who played the second Doctor Who (9) 4 In the Islamic world, an independent ruler or chieftain (4)
5 Canadian-born actor whose second wife was fellow performer Jessica Tandy (4,6) 6 Any prohibition resulting from social or other conventions (5)
7 Brownish finch, the male of which has a red breast and forehead (6)
8 Tropical American tree yielding a very light wood (5)
9 American TV series that starred Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates (7)
10 Former footballer; record goalscorer for the England women’s national team (5,5)
16 and 38 Across Late American singer nicknamed the Queen of Soul (6,8)
18 A light entertainment consisting of topical sketches, songs, dancing and comic turns (5)
20 Opening words of the titles of episodes of the TV show Friends (3,3) 21 Republic in north-west Africa, on the Atlantic, the capital of which is Nouakchott (10) 22 Having a satisfyingly pleasant taste (10)
25 In anatomy, the nontechnical name for the orbit (3,6)
27 Percy Bysshe ---, British romantic poet who wrote Ozymandias (7)
29 A bracket fixed to a wall for holding candles or lights (6) 30 A blue-violet hue (6)
32 --- Fury, British boxer; the current WBC heavyweight champion (5)
33 A collision or conflict (5)
35 A soft granular mineral, found in metamorphic rocks (4)