THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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1 John –––, hero of David Morrell’s novel First Blood and a subsequent series of movies (5) 4 Legendary island where Excalibur was forged (6) 8 TV series in which Leonard Nimoy appeared as Dr William Bell (6) 12 Louise –––, former Conservative MP for Corby who also writes novels under her maiden name Bagshawe (6) 13 ––– Days, Woody Allen film starring Mia Farrow and Diane Keaton (5) 14 Planet discovered by William Herschel in 1781 (6) 15 Curled hairstyle such as was worn by Josephine Baker (6,4) 16 Abbreviated Latin phrase meaning beneath one’s dignity (5,3) 17 Small cartoon rabbit in a series of children’s books by Dick Bruna (5) 19 The ––– Dance, a 1977 Christmas hit for the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band (6) 22 –– – Fail, political party in the Republic of Ireland (6) 25 Historical epic movie of 1959 starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida (7,3,5) 28 Hot –––, Arlene Phillips’s dance group often seen on The Kenny Everett Video Show (6) 29 ––– Leaves, a jazz standard originally entitled Les Feuilles Mortes (6) 30 Country in western Asia having Damascus as its capital city (5) 32 The pound –––, the fourth most traded currency in the foreign exchange market (8) 35 Little –––, nursery rhyme character who sat in a corner (4,6) 37 Capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra (6) 38 City in northern France near the border with Belgium (5) 39 Member of an East Germanic tribe between the 2nd and 6th Century BC (6) 40 Space –––, David Bowie song released in 1969 just before the Apollo 11 moon landing (6) 41 German writer born in 1749 whose work includes The Sorrows Of Young Werther (6) 42 ––– The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 novel set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead (5)
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2 Popular title for Schubert’s 1825 composition Ellen’s Third Song (3,5) 3 Computing language, Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (5) 5 Mario –––, writer whose books include Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter (6,5) 6 John –––, member of The Moody Blues since 1966 (5) 7 ––– Klein, social activist and author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine (5) 8 Eighty percent (4-6) 9 ––– Marie Zelnickova, former athlete and model who married Donald Trump in 1977 (5) 10 Rudy –––, mayor of New York City from 1994-2001 (8) 11 Species of wild dog native to Central and South Asia (5) 18 The –––, a play by Aristophanes featuring Dionysus and his slave Xanthias (5) 20 American comedy tradition in which a guest of honour is subjected to jokes at their expense for the amusement of an audience (5) 21 Shakespearean character who provokes her husband into committing regicide (4,7) 23 Northanger –––, Jane Austen novel published in December 1817 (5) 24 Jonny Lee Miller and Keeley Hawes movie of 2000 based on a book by Iain Banks (10) 26 Borussia –––, Bundesliga team whose home ground is the Westfalenstadion (8) 27 Breed of dog of the terrier type originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire (8) 31 The Destroyer, one of the main deities of Hinduism (5) 33 A teacher of the Torah in Judaism (5) 34 Former political prison or forced labour camp in the Soviet Union (5) 35 ––– Goodyear, actress who played Bet Lynch in Coronation Street (5) 36 ––– Keating, lead singer of the Irish pop group Boyzone (5)