THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Leonard –––, actor who appeared as the Chairman in the TV series The Good Old Days (5) 4 Floyd –––, character who is murdered early on in The Maltese Falcon (7) 8 ––– Atlas, a David Mitchell novel filmed with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry (5) 13 Large, tropical-American, arboreal, herbivorous lizard with spines along its back (6) 14 A 1966 Stockhausen composition taking its title from the French word for goodbye (5) 15 Lene –––, singer who had hits with Lucky Number and Say When (6) 16 Old TV information service such as Ceefax and Oracle (8) 17 One of the Twelve Apostles, considered by Catholics to have been the first pope (5,5) 18 International organisation for people with high IQs (5) 20 Shape-shifting water spirit said to inhabit lochs and pools in Scotland (6) 22 The –––, rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance in World War II (6) 26 The Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 (9,8) 28 A disaster movie of 1979 starring Sean Connery and Trevor Howard (6) 29 Indian city formerly known as Bombay (6) 30 ––– the Great, Mughal Emperor from 1556 to his death in 1605 (5) 32 Michael –––, actor in the films Shame, Frank and Steve Jobs (11) 36 Siouxsie and the –––, group that had hits with Christine and Hong Kong Garden (8) 38 African country whose capital city is Lilongwe (6) 39 Author of the 1729 satirical essay A Modest Proposal (5) 40 ––– The Bogeyman, children’s book by Raymond Briggs (6) 41 Witch of –––, medium who summoned the prophet Samuel’s spirit in the Old Testament (5) 42 Europe’s sixth-smallest nation, with an area of 181 square miles (7) 43 ––– Sanderson, British javelin thrower who competed at six Olympics (5)

DOWN

2 Member of the Germanic tribe that settled in Britain in the post-Roman period (5) 3 Michael Cimino’s 1980 western that became one of cinema’s most notable financial failures (7,4) 5 ITV police drama set in the 1960s and initially starring Nick Berry (9) 6 Claude –––, actor in the films Casablanca and The Invisible Man (5) 7 Person from Britain’s largest and most populous city outside London (7) 9 When The ––– Breaks, song about the 1927 Mississippi flood revised by Led Zeppelin in 1979 (5) 10 ––– Fester, a member of the Addams Family on the TV show of the same name (5) 11 Team that beat Belgium 3-1 in the quarter finals of the Euros 2016 (5) 12 Three –––, rhyme about animals whose tails are cut off by the farmer’s wife (5,4) 19 ––– Inglis, Scottish doctor, suffragist and founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (5) 21 King of Troy during the Trojan War (5) 23 Crime film of 1990, the only movie directed to date by the actor Bill Murray (5,6) 24 An ancient region of Anatolia in present-day Turkey (5) 25 Leslie –––, author of a series of novels and short stories about Simon Templar, The Saint (9) 27 Mongolia’s capital and largest city (4,5) 29 James –––, fourth President of the United States (7) 31 A Pinch Of –––, the fifth of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels by Reginald Hill (5) 33 ––– Robidoux, Canadian snooker player ranked ninth in the world 1996-98 (5) 34 Tall, cylindrical military headgear, usually with a visor (5) 35 Name assumed by Mark Smith in the UK TV show Gladiators (5) 37 Richard Burton and Jenny Agutter movie of 1977, adapted from a Peter Shaffer play (5)