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, July 5 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, July 21. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
ACROSS
1 A northern region of Israel, scene of Christ’s early ministry (7) 5 Nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll included in his 1871 novel Through The Looking-Glass (11) 10 To refute or disprove (5) 11 Arnold –––, English writer whose works include the novel Anna Of The Five Towns (7) 13 In judo or karate, a winning point awarded for a perfectly executed technique (5) 14 Game played with a cue on a rectangular table (9) 15 Patch or bunch of false hair used to augment a person’s natural hair (9) 16 A narrow and deep mountain valley, especially in Scotland (4) 17 Another name for werewolves (12) 20 ––– IV, the first tsar of Russia 1547 to 1584 (4) 21 Person suffering from a chronic inability to fall asleep (9) 22 Musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber first performed in 1981, based on a work by TS Eliot (4) 26 Person living at the same time or of approximately the same age as another (12) 27 The southernmost of the Great Lakes of North America (4) 29 People who buy goods or services (9) 31 A battle fought in 1415 in North France, a decisive victory for Henry V’s army over French forces (9) 33 In law, a defence by an accused person that he or she was elsewhere at the time a crime was committed (5) 34 Alexander – – –, Scottish sailor marooned on a South Pacific island, regarded as inspiration for Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (7) 35 The coniferous forests extending across subarctic North America and Eurasia (5) 36 Branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific study of different human cultures and groups (11) 37 Charles –––, Scottish politician, leader of the Liberal Democrats 1999-2006 (7)
DOWN
1 Giuseppe – – –, 19th Century Italian patriot after whom a type of biscuit is named (9) 2 Tag attached to an object to identify it (5) 3 Open frameworks of strips of wood or metal arranged to form an ornamental pattern (8) 4 Stefan –––, Swedish tennis player who won six Grand Slam singles titles in the 1980s and 1990s (6) 5 The third wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (4,7) 6 European tree with smooth, greyish bark, the hard wood of which is used to make furniture (5) 7 Utterances in a low, soft voice (8) 8 A type of fine handwriting (11) 9 A city in South East New York State, on the Hudson River (7) 12 ––– Shandy, protagonist of a nine-volume 18th Century novel by Laurence Sterne (8) 16 A variety of hard, greenskinned apple (6,5) 18 A deviation from the typical or usual, irregularity (11) 19 Small scraps or fragments (8) 23 A holy place, consecrated building or shrine (9) 24 Native American chieftain who surrendered to US authorities in 1886 (8) 25 Michael –––, author and screenwriter whose novels include Jurassic Park and Congo (8) 26 A feather or ribbon worn on military headwear (7) 28 Wild Bill –––, lawman of the American Old West (6) 30 An old name for Shropshire (5) 32 ––– the Union, trade union led by Len McCluskey since 2011 (5)