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, July 17 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, August 2. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
11 A brittle, silvery-grey metallic element (9) 12 A person or group responsible for the administration of a project or business (9) 13 An enclosure usually surrounded by seats on all sides, in which sports events or concerts take place (5) 14 John Everett – – –, English painter and illustrator, a founder of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood (7) 15 A circular area, often featuring stones or wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages (5) 16 A kingdom in South East Asia, on the Andaman Sea (8) 18 Breaks up and scatters, dispels (10) 22 An Ancient Roman heating system in which hot air is circulated under the floor and between double walls (9) 24 A kingdom forming an enclave in South Africa (7) 27 Chinese – – – – – –, festival beginning on the day of the New Moon that appears between January 21 and February 20 (3,4) 28 Nickname of Thomas Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War who led the Valley Campaign of 1862 (9) 30 Male romantic partners (10) 32 A volcanic island in Indonesia, in the Sunda
Strait, partially destroyed by its eruption in 1883 (8) 35 Franz – – –, 19th Century Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (5) 37 Secret votes in which people select candidates in an election or express their opinion about something (7) 38 – – – Becker, German tennis player who won the Wimbledon men’s singles title three times in the 1980s (5) 39 Informal Italian restaurant (9) 40 Inflammation of the fingers or toes, caused by prolonged exposure to moisture and cold (9)
Down 1
In art, paint applied thickly so that brush and palette knife marks are evident (7) 2 William Shakespeare’s wife (4,8) 3 – – – Fitzgerald, English actress who played Gloria in Brassed Off (4) 4 Small animals such as insects and rodents that are troublesome to humans (6) 5 A bowed, stringed musical instrument of the violin family (5) 6 A military counterattack (11) 7 Another name for porcino mushrooms (4) 8 Exercise in which the body is alternately raised from and lowered to the floor by the arms only (4-2) 9 A large oven for burning, drying or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks (4) 10 A temporary depression in economic activity or prosperity (9) 17 A drop in standard of an isolated or temporary nature (5) 19 An ointment for wounds or sores (5) 20 Denoting a dictatorial oneparty state that regulates every realm of life (12) 21 Toasted tortillas filled with cheese and sometimes other ingredients (11) 23 Marie – – –, Polish-born physicist and chemist, the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize (5) 25 An ordered pile or heap (5) 26 Lack of a particular skill or means (9) 29 Giovanni Domenico – – –, Italian-born French astronomer who discovered four of bSaturn’s moons (7) 31 A flightless bird such as the ostrich, kiwi or rhea (6) 33 Having qualities ascribed to country life or people (6) 34 A long stick with burning material at one end, used to provide light or to set things on fire (5) 36 A type of jazz singing characterised by improvised vocal sounds (4) 37 Old-fashioned word for a poet (4) 38 A swollen, inflamed lymph node in the armpit or groin (4)