Prize crossword
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7 The ___ Book, written down about 970, is the largest collection of Old English poetry in existence (6) 8 See 2 down 10 As a member of the Gang of Four, she was the most influential woman in the People’s Republic of China (5,4) 12 The feudal bond between a man and his overlord (5) 13 The Jamaican nurse who was belatedly honoured for her nursing achievements, particularly during the Crimean War (4,7) 15 Town of the Somme department of France – Joan of Arc and the future Napoleon III were two notable detainees in its fortress (3) 16 Scottish mathematician, John, who originated the system of logarithms in the 17th century (6) 18 Northernmost of Ireland’s four traditional provinces (6) 22 A European state from 1949 until 1990 (abbrev) (3) 23 The campaigner who opened Britain’s first birth control clinic in 1921 (5,6) 25 Joe, anarchic writer of black comedies, killed by his lover in 1967 (5) 26 Name of the ship, broken by pack ice, used for Shackleton’s 1914–16 Antarctic expedition (9) 28 The so-called ___ Revolution that resulted in the accession of William and Mary to the throne (8) 29 Family name of an heiress of a US media empire, kidnapped by leftist radicals in 1974 (6)
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1 A 20th-century Poet Laureate and defender of Victorian architecture (8) 2/8 British nurse, feminist and pacifist who, in 1933, wrote a bestselling memoir of her First World War experiences (4,8) 3 Prehistoric ritual enclosures (6) 4 A mounted, armed infantryman: the term survives in the names of certain regiments ( 7) 5 US army officer, ‘ Vinegar Joe’, who became Chiang Kai-shek’s chief of staff (8) 6 Theologian whose ‘proof’ of God’s existence has prompted great debate – he died at Canterbury in 1109 and was made a saint (6) 9 Name of four kings of Egypt (the fourth one became Akhenaten) (9) 11 Name of a number of grand princes of Moscow, the first reigning from around 1328– 40 (4) 14 Compensation extracted from eg Germany after the two world wars (10) 17 King of England, nicknamed ‘Ironside’ because of his staunch resistance to Cnut’s invasion (6,2) 19 Gabriel Dante, painter/poet, who helped to found the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood (8) 20 The last king of Lydia, defeated by Cyrus the Great ( 7) 21 US social anthropologist, Margaret – the scientific soundness of her book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) has been questioned (4) 22 15th-century king of Bohemia and head of the Utraquist faction of the Hussites (6) 24 Country that came into being in 1923 with the official demise of the Ottoman state (6) 27 Roman emperor, the last of the Julio- Claudian line (4)