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, April 14 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, April 30. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
ACROSS
1 A republic in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast (7) A hilly wooded region of South West Germany; 105 a popular resort area (5,6) The middle daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear (5) 11 Large, swift, feline mammal of Africa and South West Asia, with a black-spotted coat (7) 13 The coniferous forests extending across subarctic North America and Eurasia (5) 14 American author whose novels included The Godfather (5,4) 15 Vehicles suspended from and moved by an overhead rope in a mountain area (5,4) 16 A compact organic deposit used as a fuel and fertiliser (4) 17 American politician and ‘King of the Wild Frontier’ who died at the Battle of the Alamo (4,8) 20 Misfortunes or troubles (4) 21 Severe spasmodic pain caused by damage to, or malfunctioning of, a nerve (9) 22 The Norse god of thunder, depicted as wielding a hammer (4) 26 Late British entertainer whose trademarks were his cloth cap and his trip-and-stumble (6,6) 27 A chess piece of the lowest theoretical value (4) 29 Northern temperate garden plant with fleshy leaves (9) 31 A sweet white wine made in the Southern Bordeaux region of France (9) 33 Fictional sprite who ‘appears’ in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (5) 34 Evil or atrocious (7) 35 The title of a 1928 play and 1931 film based on Agatha Christie’s The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (5) 36 Irish-born philosopher and politician who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry (6,5) 37 Boris ---, the first President of Russia, 1991-1999 (7)
DOWN
1 An island in the Tyrrhenian Sea famous for its active volcano (9) 2 Landlocked republic in West Africa, the capital of which is Niamey (5) 3 Long, flat-bottomed boats featured in John Singer Sargent’s painting La Riva (8) 4 A school and sports ground of ancient Athens; site of Aristotle’s discussions with his pupils (6) 5 The capital and largest city of Argentina (6,5) 6 A member of a civilisation whose empire was centred on the Valley of Mexico (5) 7 A systematic effort to provide unsolicited and predefined help to groups or individuals deemed to need it (8) 8 Relating to England or its culture in the age of the monarch known as the Virgin Queen (11) 9 The passage or conveyance of goods or people (7) 12 The Roman name for Ireland (8) 16 Genus of flowering plants which includes many geraniums (11) 18 A national park in the US states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho (11) 19 Barbara ---, 20th Century British modernist sculptor (8) 23 A temporary depression in economic activity or prosperity (9) 24 Ferdinand ---, Portuguese navigator who was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean (8) 25 A team game with nine players on each side, played on a field known as a diamond (8) 26 Ilie ---, Romanian former tennis player who won two Grand Slam singles titles in the 1970s (7) 28 --- Bear, yellow mascot for a UK charity since 1985 (6) 30 The deputy head of a monastery or abbey, ranking below the abbot (5) 32 Fastening devices with points at one end and heads at the other (5)
NOW THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO ENTER
Complete the Prize Crossword and count how many times the letter ‘i’ appears in the finished grid. Then text ISPY followed by your answer, name and postcode to 65700. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. Or call 0905 652 2172 and leave your answer and details. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday. Or post your completed grid AND iSpy answer to The Prize Crossword No 1795, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, April 14 (photocopies not accepted). The winner will be selected at random from correct iSpy answers. See today’s solutions panel for terms and conditions.
Winner of Prize Crossword No 1792: Amanda Taylor, of Newick, East Sussex. Last week’s answer: 15