THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Carnivorous mammal from which the fur ermine is obtained (5) 4 An inability to express thoughts using language, caused by an injury to the brain (7) 8 Wading bird of the genus Gallinago (5) 13 City on the Belgian coast (6) 14 Martin –––, Mel Gibson’s character in the Lethal Weapon series of films (5) 15 The name of the Hebrew God revealed to Moses, also Jehovah (6) 16 Stimulant that occurs naturally in coffee and tea (8) 17 Large hairy arachnids belonging to the Theraphosidae family (10) 18 The site of five First World War battles between 1914-18 (5) 20 The Sunflower State in the USA (6) 22 Gary –––, West Indies cricketer born in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1936 (6) 26 Conflict of 1917 that saw the end of Tsarist rule and the dawn of the Soviet Union (7,10) 28 ––– Jones, former footballer for Wimbledon, Leeds and Chelsea (6) 29 ––– Levi-Strauss, French academic who was instrumental in the development of structural anthropology (6) 30 Italy’s sixth largest city, the capital of Liguria (5) 32 Charter sealed by King John at Runnymede in 1215 (5,5) 36 Book of the Old Testament containing an account of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem (8) 38 Blair –––, Perthshire town in the Cairngorms National Park (6) 39 John Keats poem about the pursuit of a nymph by Hermes (5) 40 Elton John hit single from his album Ice On Fire (6) 41 London Underground station in Islington on the Northern line (5) 42 Hedvig –––, Swedish goalkeeper who currently plays for Chelsea Ladies (7) 43 Dennis –––, actor who played Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue (5) DOWN 2 ––– Yar, Denise Crosby’s character in Star Trek: The Next Generation (5) 3 The –––, Thomas Paine’s influential 18th Century philosophical work (3,2,6) 5 A Moby song from 2000 released as a single from his album Play (9) 6 Undirected and unmotivated fear or anxiety as contrasted with Furcht (5) 7 Film about 1930s moviemaking starring Jessica Harper, Richard Dreyfuss and Bob Hoskins (7) 9 Jawaharlal –––, the first Prime Minister of India (5) 10 Marble sculpture by Michelangelo housed in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican (5) 11 ––– van der Sar, Manchester United goalkeeper between 2005-11 (5) 12 Training venue in ancient Greece for games competitors, taking its name from the Greek word for naked (9) 19 Descendant of the Zoroastrians who emigrated from Persia to India in the 8th Century (5) 21 The Arrival Of The Queen Of –––, a section of Handel’s oratorio Solomon (5) 23 American drink consisting of a glass of a beer and a shot of whiskey (11) 24 Professional name of the musician Richard Starkey (5) 25 Chalky deposits, principally calcium carbonate, left in kettles that have used hard water (9) 27 American humorous poet who wrote Candy Is Dandy (5,4) 29 Captain –––’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres’ bestselling novel about occupied Cephalonia (7) 31 African country that has Accra as its capital city (5) 33 Area in the London Borough of Ealing through which the Uxbridge Road passes (5) 34 Title of a lost play by Aeschylus (5) 35 ––– Johnson, professional name of the retired American wrestler Anthony Norris (5) 37 ––– Chekhov, author of The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters (5)