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, January 22 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, February 7. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
10 The quality or power, especially in literature or speech, of arousing feelings of pity or sorrow (6) 11 A person or company that provides package holidays (4,8) 12 Plant which reproduces by spores formed in structures on its fronds (4) 13 – – – III, Prince of Monaco who married Grace Kelly in 1956 (7) 14 Friedrich – – –, German social scientist and philosopher who collaborated with Marx on The Communist Manifesto (6) 15 People who fish with rods and lines (7) 16 The Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74 (5,6) 20 Safety device in an electric plug or circuit (4) 21 A short, memorable saying embodying some commonplace fact or experience (7) 22 The light-sensitive membrane forming the inner lining of the posterior wall of the eyeball (6) 23 See 7 Down 25 A republic in North West Asia, the capital of which is Yerevan (7) 27 A compact, brownish deposit of partially decomposed vegetable matter saturated with water, used as a fuel and fertiliser (4)
28 A vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table (7,4) 29 A person who harasses, punishes or causes destruction (7) 32 An unwritten regional dialect of a language, especially of French (6) 35 Musical term, meaning to be played lovingly (7) 36 Large tree of the East Indies, yielding a valuable, dense wood (4) 37 Flexible platforms used for diving (12) 38 Roman consul, orator and writer killed by Mark Antony’s agents in 43BC (6)
Down
1 The most successful club in German football history, based in Bavaria (6,6) 2 A thick, soft, tufty silk or worsted velvet cord or yarn, used in embroidery, or to make fabric or trimmings (8) 3 A person who lends funds at an exorbitant rate of interest (6) 4 The clothes worn by the members of a sports team (5) 5 A person who flees from arrest or pursuit (8) 6 An astronomical observatory in Cheshire, location of several radio telescopes (7,4) 7 and 23 Across US actor
and filmmaker who starred in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (4,6) 8 One of the four planets in our solar system that are composed chiefly of hydrogen and helium, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (3,5) 9 The young of a horse or related animal (4) 17 A small, fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between movable parts of the body (5) 18 A port in Eastern Ireland, on Dublin Bay, named Kingstown from 1821-1921 (3,9) 19 In the Old Testament, a hostile prince and the land from which he comes to attack Israel (3,3,5) 21 Eva – – –, the First Lady of Argentina whose life inspired the musical Evita (5) 24 A widely-cultivated plant with spring-blooming yellow flowers (8) 26 US state, the capital of which is Jefferson City (8) 27 In medicine, a local moist and often heated application for the skin (8) 30 Tracey – – –, Conservative MP who was Minister for Sport 2017-18 (6) 31 A large, cat-like mammal inhabiting the forests of Madagascar (5) 33 A mountain range in South Central Europe (4) 34 A person revered for their profound wisdom (4)