THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
There’s an amazing £1,500 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. Entries must arrive by Friday, March 17 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, April 2. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
ACROSS
1 Salman ---, British Indian novelist who won the Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children (7) 5 In Greek myths, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered the most beautiful woman in the world (5,2,4) 10 Established standards of behaviour shared by members of a social group (5) 11 Small, slender fish, widely used as bait (7) 13 Joe ---, English playwright whose black comedies included Loot (5) 14 The study of family origins and history (9) 15 A dung beetle which makes a droning sound in flight (3,6) 16 Mountainous Indonesian island east of Java (4) 17 Nursery rhyme of French origin, traditionally sung in a round (5,7) 20 Jonas ---, American medical researcher who developed the first successful polio vaccine (4) 21 A musical note represented by a hollow oval and no note stem (9) 22 A wooden or wooden-soled shoe (4) 26 Broadway show with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, first performed in 1934 (8,4) 27 Perennial plant with grey-green leaves used in cooking (4) 29 --- terrier, a very small breed of dog with a long straight glossy coat of steel-blue and tan (9) 31 A book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into 12 leaves (9) 33 A colourless gas used in fluorescent tubes and Geiger counters (5) 34 Small wild flowers with yellow centres and white petals (7) 35 An ancient city on the North coast of Africa, north of Carthage (5) 36 A representative concerned with the valuation, management, lease and sale of property (6,5) 37 Spine-covered mammal of Australia and New Guinea, which has a long snout and hunts ants and termites (7)
DOWN
1 People who desert their cause or faith for another (9) 2 A device for emitting a loud wailing sound, especially as a warning or signal (5) 3 Benjamin ---, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (8) 4 --- pony; small, stocky horse breed native to the British Isles (6) 5 English actor-manager of the Victorian era; the first actor to be knighted (5,6) 6 Clive ---, cricketer who captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 (5) 7 A city on the River Arno in Tuscany (8) 8 Vegetable casserole made of tomatoes, aubergines, peppers etc (11) 9 New York ---, American professional baseball team (7) 12 The capital and largest city of Bosnia-Herzegovina (8) 16 Wolverhampton Wanderers and England football captain who was the first player to earn 100 international caps (5,6) 18 The Battle of --- ---, an 1879 battle in the Anglo-Zulu War (6,5) 19 A small, brown-andwhite New Zealand swamp bird (8) 23 In cooking, a garnish of finely chopped parsley, garlic and lemon (9) 24 Tree which produces flowers in long catkins and edible nuts in prickly burs (8) 25 American Major League baseball player whose nickname was the Sultan of Swat (4,4) 26 An enzyme present in saliva that begins the process of digestion (7) 28 A light, creamy dessert, sometimes set with gelatine (6) 30 The most powerful, rich, gifted or educated members of a group or community (5) 32 A Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, attributed to Homer (5)