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, March 12 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, March 28. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
1 Francis Ford –––, director of the 1972 film The Godfather (7) 5 A person who owns or rents a particular dwelling (11) 10 The fruit of an oak tree (5) 11 Jack –––, American writer of the Beat generation, whose novels include On The Road (7) 13 Small, ornamented cases for holding needles or cosmetics (5) 14 Norwegian statesman who was the first secretary-general of the United Nations (6,3) 15 In Indian cookery, a slightly leavened bread in a large, flat, leaf shape (4,5) 16 ––– cake, a round, flat, soft bread roll in Lancashire (4) 17 Occasions when the heart beats very fast in an irregular way (12) 20 Christopher –––, British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill (4) 21 A reasoned exposition (9) 22 A cage or small enclosure for poultry and small animals (4) 26 American rock and roll musician who recorded C’mon Everybody and Summertime Blues (5,7) 27 John –––, European fish with spiny dorsal fins and massive mobile jaws (4) 29 A pile of discarded material (9) 31 The condition of being abnormally hairy (9) 33 A substance occurring naturally in the body and used to treat Parkinson’s disease (1-4) 34 The Importance of Being –––, comedy by Oscar Wilde first performed in London on Valentine’s Day 1895 (7) 35 Informal word for ostentatious jewellery (5) 36 The – – – – – –, nickname for the US state of Connecticut (6,5) 37 A person who does not acknowledge the God of Christianity, Judaism or Islam (7)
Down
1 (Of a professional person) having attained certain professional qualifications or standards (9) 2 Any of various ranunculaceous shrubs or plants, with large pink, red, white or yellow flowers (5) 3 Term for a person or animal who eats both plant and animal material (8) 4 A substance with a pH value of more than 7 (6) 5 Pungent white root vegetable, used to make a sauce often eaten with roast beef (11) 6 A manoeuvre made by a vehicle resulting in a reversal of direction (1-4) 7 An extension of the upper front teeth over the lower front teeth when the mouth is closed (8) 8 The fifth book of the Old Testament (11) 9 Lives permanently, or for a considerable time, in a place (7) 12 Old-fashioned word for things that belong to you (8) 16 Aquatic plant, some of whose leaves are modified to trap minute aquatic animals (11) 18 A participant in an athletics competition consisting of five different events (11) 19 Opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, set in Paris around 1830 (2,6) 23 An arctic or subarctic grouse with a white winter plumage (9) 24 A gift that evokes memories of a person or event with which it is associated (8) 25 NASA orbiter used for the first flight of the Space Shuttle program in 1981 (8) 26 The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (7) 28 Long staff of wood or metal having a rest for the armpit, for supporting the weight of the body (6) 30 ––– ham, a cured ham from Italy (5) 32 ––– coffee, drink consisting of hot coffee mixed with whiskey and topped with double cream (5)