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 28 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, August 13. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. ACROSS
1 British artist best known for his paintings of horses, such as Whistlejacket (6,6) 8 Light motorcycles, not over 50cc (6) 11 A golden horse with a cream or white mane and tail (8) 12 A tropical fruit with yellow skin and pink pulp (5) 13 An action intended to mislead, deceive or trick (4) 14 In Greek myths, a princess of Colchis who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece (5) 15 American socialite who married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor in 1937 (6,7) 17 A tree grown for its hard wood and large, orange-red fruit (9) 19 A pale green mineral; the world’s major source of phosphorus (7) 23 George ---, winner of the Ballon d’Or as European Footballer of the Year 1968 (4) 24 A performance of a musical composition, dramatic role etc (9) 25 A deep, black, powdery or flaky substance produced by the incomplete combustion of organic substances (4) 26 One living in isolation, often for religious meditation (7) 28 The capital city of the federal state of Tyrol in West Austria (9) 31 Israeli author awarded the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his novel A Horse Walks Into A Bar (5,8) 34 The distinctive character, spirit and attitudes of a people, culture or era (5) 36 A layer or level (4) 37 One of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (5) 38 A republic in South West Europe, on the Atlantic (8) 39 --- Farm, allegorical novella by George Orwell, published in 1945 (6) 40 Hill above a town in central Italy; site of intense battle during World War II (5,7)
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2 1996 action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (6) 3 Theodore ---, 26th US President, after whom the teddy bear is named (9) 4 An archaic or poetic name for Ireland (4) 5 German-born novelist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 1929 (6,4) 6 Ring-shaped bread roll, characteristic of Jewish baking (5) 7 Scattered or scanty (6) 8 A city and resort in South East Florida, on Biscayne Bay (5) 9 A low wall or railing along the edge of a balcony or roof (7) 10 In electronics, an undesired change in the shape of an electromagnetic wave or signal (10) 16 An ancient Egyptian god, ruler of the underworld and judge of the dead (6) 18 A conspicuous constellation containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel (5) 20 Small room or cupboard in which provisions are kept (6) 21 Person who excludes meat and fish from their diet (10) 22 Fictional amateur detective who appears in 12 of Agatha Christie’s crime novels (4,6) 25 A garden hand tool used for pruning (9) 27 An Irish county in Connacht province (7) 29 Ian ---, former England Test team captain who scored 5,200 runs and took 383 wickets in Test cricket (6) 30 Land governed by a ruler or government (6) 32 Holy ---, in medieval legend, the bowl used by Jesus at the Last Supper (5) 33 Black-eyed ---, North American plant which has orange-yellow flowers with brown-black centres (5) 35 --- Major, another name for the constellation the Great Bear (4)