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, June 5 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, June 21. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. NAME .................................................................................................................................... ADDRESS .............................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................. POSTCODE .................................... TELEPHONE .............................................................
Across
1 Smooth, hard, yellow or whitish cheese that shares its name with a North Somerset village (7) 5 A hat with peaks at the front and back and earflaps often turned up and tied together on the top (11) 10 A large gathering of people for a common purpose (5) 11 A large goose native to UK and Europe (7) 13 An alarm or warning (5) 14 The ––– –––, poem by T.S. Eliot first published in 1922 (5,4) 15 A period of three months (9) 16 Old –––, a card game using a pack from which one card has been removed (4) 17 A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action (5,7) 20 The capital city of Peru (4) 21 The theological notion of a condition of purification or temporary punishment for those who have died (9) 22 A unit of length equal to one-twelfth of a foot (4) 26 An organised programme of measures to be taken in order to achieve a goal (4,2,6) 27 The standard monetary unit of Turkey (4) 29 A constituent part or aspect of something more complex (9) 31 In modern Russia, business entrepreneurs with significant political or media influence (9) 33 The –––, the hypothetical medium formerly believed to fill all space (5) 34 Metal stands on which hot dishes are placed on a table (7) 35 Count –––, 20th Century American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (5) 36 Amphibians of Central and South Europe (11) 37 The front part of a missile or projectile, containing explosives (7)
Down
1 An acrobatic movement in which the body makes a sideways revolution (9) 2 Bret Easton –––, American author whose novels include American Psycho (5) 3 Cecil ––– –––, the Poet Laureate 1968-72 (3-5) 4 A type of West Indian popular music (6) 5 A battleship armed with heavy guns of uniform calibre, first launched in the early 20th Century (11) 6 A port in south Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba (5) 7 A lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss, premiered in 1933 (8) 8 A strong impulse to steal (11) 9 A city in New Zealand on North Island, on the shores of a lake of the same name (7) 12 Devices for crushing food such as coffee or meat into small pieces or into a powder (8) 16 Chief consort of the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan, a famous marble mausoleum in Agra was commissioned to house her tomb (6,5) 18 Scientists who study the stars, planets and other natural objects in space (11) 19 The capital and largest city of Hungary (8) 23 A residential area of North London, known for ––– Heath, a large ancient parkland (9) 24 A design of one or more letters, especially initials, embroidered on clothing or printed on stationery (8) 25 Wilkins –––, character in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (8) 26 Individuals or groups standing outside establishments to make protests (7) 28 Wooden or cardboard puzzle consisting of irregularly shaped, interlocking pieces (6) 30 The stomach lining of an ox or cow, prepared for cooking (5) 32 In Hinduism, any of the four major hereditary classes into which society is divided (5)