THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
Across
10 (In Hinduism) A person who has achieved perfection (6) 11 A bunch of herbs tied together and used for flavouring soups and stews (7,5) 12 Port city in Yemen, site of an ancient natural harbour (4) 13 Someone who thinks they know everything (4-3) 14 A crested bird with salmoncoloured plumage and black-and-white wings, chosen as the national bird of Israel in 2008 (6) 15 Denoting a substance capable of being dissolved, especially in water (7) 16 A rocket manufactured by SpaceX, the maiden launch of which took place in February (6,5) 20 Genus of trees and shrubs often cultivated for their brightly-coloured foliage, also known as maple (4) 21 Mythical creature, usually depicted as a white horse with one long, spiralled horn growing from its forehead (7) 22 Capital of the former Habsburg empire and current home of The Spanish Riding School (6) 23 Luxury tourist resort in the Bahamas, on the coast of New Providence Island (6) 25 Desiderius –––, Dutch humanist; the leading scholar of the Renaissance in North Europe (7) 27 An ornamental circular stud on a vault, ceiling or shield (4) 28 One of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic (4,7) 29 A sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat, a fiasco (7) 32 A break or gap where something is missing (6) 35 A language of East Africa, widely used as a lingua franca (7) 36 A white, sheep or goat cheese popular in Greece (4) 37 English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell (6,6) 38 A headdress worn by male Sikhs (6)
Down
1 A wooden item of furniture, popular from the 18th Century, usually with a shaped seat and a back made of spindles (7,5) 2 Konrad –––, German statesman, chancellor of West Germany 1949-1963 (8) 3 African or South Asian animal, closely related to the dog, which feeds on the kill of other animals (6) 4 The superior of an order of monks (5) 5 Zimbabwe’s second-largest city (8) 6 A notorious person, such as a criminal, who is regarded as a menace to others (6,5) 7 A state of the Western US, the capital of which is Salt Lake City (4) 8 Opera by Giacomo Puccini, which premiered in Turin in 1896 (2,6) 9 ––– regni, Latin phrase meaning ‘in the year of the reign’ (4) 17 Caribbean island which forms a Federation with Saint Kitts (5) 18 Insect-eating American plant with hinged two-lobed leaves (5,7) 19 Air ––– –––, senior RAF officer of equivalent rank to a rear admiral in the Royal Navy (4-7) 21 A small, fleshy flap of tissue that hangs in the back of the throat (5) 24 Another name for a bunker on a golf course (4,4) 26 City and port in South East Spain, on the Costa Blanca (8) 27 Lady Margaret –––, the mother of King Henry VII, credited with the establishment of two Cambridge colleges (8) 30 Decrees, orders or ordinances issued by a sovereign or state (6) 31 A female horse or pony under the age of four (5) 33 A plant with brightlycoloured flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals (4) 34 Inflammation of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid (4)