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, February 12 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, February 28. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
1 A shudder or shiver, thrill (7) 5 A Member of Parliament who does not hold office in the government or opposition (11) 10 A royal domain or kingdom (5) 11 A man who practises black magic (7) 13 Mounds or ridges of drifted sand (5) 14 Alfred –––, film director whose movies include Rear Window and Psycho (9) 15 County seat of Ford County, Kansas, on the Arkansas River, famous for its history as a wild frontier town of the Old West (5,4) 16 Plant with yellow-and-red flowers and edible, sticky green pods (4) 17 19th Century French poet associated with the Symbolist and Decadent movements (4,8) 20 An internet location where information relating to a specific subject can be accessed (4) 21 The whole of the outer edge or boundary of an area of land (9) 22 A guessing game usually played by young children (1-3) 26 Signs mounted on the front and back of motor vehicles bearing their registrations (12) 27 To mend a hole in a garment with a series of crossing or interwoven stitches (4) 29 Withdrew or retired in the face of, or from, action with an enemy (9) 31 American novelist and poet who wrote the 1973 novel Fear Of Flying (5,4) 33 Slang term for a robbery, especially of money, jewellery or art (5) 34 Port in West Washington on the isthmus between Lake Washington and Puget Sound (7) 35 A small terrestrial lizard inhabiting warm regions of the Old World (5) 36 In the Roman Catholic Church, the Lord’s Prayer, especially in Latin (11) 37 Capital of the US state of New Mexico (5,2)
Down
1 Former small British coins, each worth a quarter of an old penny (9) 2 Not suitable or fitting (5) 3 Edible coastal plant with fleshy, divided leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers (8) 4 Isaac –––, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher (6) 5 The world’s tallest man-made structure (4,7) 6 The simultaneous sounding of a group of musical notes (5) 7 19th Century Australian outlaw and bushranger (3,5) 8 Norwegian dramatist and poet whose plays include Peer Gynt (6,5) 9 To change the design or appearance of (7) 12 Dish consisting of rice, cooked flaked fish and hard-boiled eggs (8) 16 Person qualified to examine the eyes and prescribe and supply spectacles (11) 18 Instrument which may be used during a polygraph test (3,8) 19 Pauses from exertion, intervals of rest (8) 23 Title used to address a duke, duchess or archbishop (4,5) 24 Someone who leaves their country, political party or other group and joins an opposing one (8) 25 To repeat something vocally (3,5) 26 Solomon –––, American abolitionist, primary author of the 1853 memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) 28 Any muscle having two heads or origins, especially the muscle that flexes the forearm (6) 30 An early plan, sketch or drawing of something (5) 32 A city in East Nebraska on the Missouri River (5)