THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 One of the 13 historic counties of Wales (9) 6 Hertfordshire village on the River Ver documented in the Domesday Book (9) 11 Notorious nickname of the Bethlem Royal Hospital for the mentally ill (6) 12 Leader of a gang of pickpockets in the Dickens novel Oliver Twist (5) 14 ––– Jackson, actress who later became MP for Hampstead and Kilburn (6) 15 The Flying –––, comedy film in which Laurel and Hardy join the Foreign Legion (6) 16 Spirit image in ancient Greek literature, or an idealised figure (7) 17 Third largest of the Shetland Islands after the Mainland and Yell (4) 18 The capital city of Ethiopia (5,5) 22 Ann –––, author who won the Orange Prize for her novel Bel Canto (8) 24 ––– Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 1994 autobiography dealing with her depression (6) 26 Francis –––, 1561-1626, philosopher and scientist known as the father of empiricism (5) 27 Justin Timberlake sci-fi film of 2011 in which people stop aging at 25 (2,4) 28 Esprit de l’–––, a phrase coined by Diderot to describe thinking of the perfect reply too late (8) 29 Small, round, flaky pastry treat filled with currants (6,4) 31 Evil –––, wicked television set in the Kenneth Williams children’s TV series Willo The Wisp (4) 33 Roman Polanski film of 1988 starring Harrison Ford (7) 36 ––– & Bigfoot, duo who had a 1999 hit with Sweet Like Chocolate (6) 38 Name of the son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (6) 39 ––– Sledge, singer of When A Man Loves A Woman, who died in April this year (5) 40 ––– Of Hoy, 449ft sea stack off the coast of Orkney (3,3) 41 Person from Omaha or Lincoln, for example (9) 42 Title of the Rage Against The Machine covers album from 2000 (9) DOWN 2 Lerner and –––, team behind the musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot (5) 3 Book Of –––, part of the Old Testament attributed to a Hebrew prophet of the 5th Century BC (7) 4 Sergio –––, footballer for Real Madrid and the Spanish national team (5) 5 A Michael Caine movie of 1966 remade in 2004 with Jude Law (5) 7 Ivan –––, former Czech tennis player ranked the world’s No1 several times in the 1980s (5) 8 Concrete fortifications constructed by France along the Swiss and German borders as a defensive measure in the 1930s (7,4) 9 Type of catapult used as a siege engine in the Middle Ages (9) 10 The –––, mountain range in the western part of South America (5) 13 Cambridgeshire town at the junction of the Roman roads Via Devana and Ermine Street (13) 19 ––– Day, singer and actress in the films Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk (5) 20 Northern vulpine creatures, Alopex lagopus (6,5) 21 The Chronicles Of –––, a series of fantasy books by Roger Zelazny (5) 22 ––– Wars, series of conflicts between Rome and Carthage (5) 23 City in Siberia dating from more than 400 years ago (5) 25 New –––, person who may be colloquially known as a Kiwi (9) 30 ––– Winkleman, presenter of the Strictly Come Dancing live Saturday night show with Tess Daly (7) 32 Sir Francis –––, Elizabethan hero known as El Draque to the Spaniards (5) 34 First letter of the Greek alphabet (5) 35 River that flows through Glasgow (5) 36 ––– City, football team that plays its home games at the Britannia Stadium (5) 37 Band whose albums include Hopes And Fears and Under The Iron Sea (5)