THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £1,500
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, October 11 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, October 27. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. Across 11 A copy or reproduction of a genuine article (9) 12 Lacking the qualities or features of living beings (9) 13 A card game based on collecting sets and sequences (5) 14 John – – –, British Conservative Secretary of State for War who resigned in 1963 following a famous scandal (7) 15 A solution of sugar dissolved in boiling water (5) 16 A thick white sauce (8) 18 A group of granite and coral islands in the western Indian Ocean (10) 22 A variety of peach tree, the fruit of which has a smooth skin (9) 24 A city and port in North East Italy, famous for its ancient mosaics (7) 27 1715 statute designed to disperse unlawful crowds disturbing the public peace (4,3) 28 Small beetles with red wing covers marked with black spots (9) 30 Seaside village near Bideford in Devon, named after a Charles Kingsley novel (8,2) 32 A poem, play or picture in which the apparent meaning is used to symbolise a deeper moral or spiritual meaning (8) 35 A gentle poke or push (5) 37 A lightweight cotton fabric in a checked design of white and one other colour (7) 38 A city in the southern Netherlands, the residence of Charles II during his exile (5) 39 Failure to meet a goal or a requirement, or the amount of such a failure (9) 40 British-born Hollywood actor who starred in Hitchcock’s Suspicion and Notorious (4,5)
Down 1 Any microscopic organism, especially a disease-causing bacterium (7) 2 American tennis player who won eight Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1974 and 1982 (5,7) 3 Small South American rodent with a thickset body and short tail (4) 4 Small natural dent in the cheek or chin (6) 5 A pouchlike hat, often of net, loosely holding hair at the back of the head (5) 6 Carved busts or figures at the prows of some sailing vessels (11) 7 Villainous ensign in Shakespeare’s Othello (4) 8 A disposable handkerchief made of thin, soft paper (6) 9 The resting place of a wild animal (4) 10 Roman Emperor 69AD to 79AD, founder of the Flavian dynasty (9) 17 The capital city of Ghana (5) 19 Evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods that are used as a substitute for chocolate (5) 20 An American and Canadian word for a docker (12) 21 Manager of Liverpool FC 1959-1974, who led them to win three league titles and the UEFA Cup (4,7) 23 Plant with white, blue, purple or pink daisy-like flowers (5) 25 Jules – – –, French sciencefiction writer, whose works include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (5) 26 A lookout platform high up on a ship’s mast (5,4) 29 People who govern oppressively, despots (7) 31 A band of flowers or foliage intertwined into a ring (6) 33 Arboreal Madagascan primates with fox-like faces and long tails (6) 34 A roughly-built hut (5) 36 A steep or sheer incline or slope (4) 37 A small biting insect that typically flies in large swarms (4) 38 Concealed microphones used for recording conversations, as in spying (4)