THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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1 ––– ––– Palace,
Royal residence in Richmond, originally built for Cardinal Wolsey (7,5)
8 A formal discussion in which opposing
arguments are put forward (6)
11 Josiah –––, 18th Century
English potter (8)
12 One of the five classical orders of architecture, characterised by a column with no base
and a fluted shaft (5)
13 ––– Joon Ho, winner of the Academy Award for Best Director for the
2020 film Parasite (4)
14 Domestic animal in need
of a home (5)
15 Skill in the use of a weapon
with a long sharp blade (13) 17 A subheading in a newspaper or magazine article (9)
19 An inflated sense of selfimportance or superiority (7) 23 The act of imposing and
collecting a tax or tariff (4)
24 A savoury roll of potato,
meat or fish fried in breadcrumbs (9)
25 A wooden or wooden-soled
shoe (4)
26 George –––, American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Kodak company and popularised the use of roll film (7)
28 Any normal or abnormal
bending of a bodily part (9) 31 The only novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate
life at Oxford published in 1911 (7,6)
34 Melvil –––, American educator who invented a system of library book
classification (5)
36 Nat King –––, 20th Century American singer-songwriter
and jazz musician (4)
37 Indian condiment of finely chopped cucumber and mint in yogurt (5)
38 Bernardine –––, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize
for Girl, Woman, Other (8) 39 In Christianity, a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations,
each followed by an unvarying response (6) 40 Representatives concerned with the valuation,
management, lease and sale of property (6,6) Down
2 A collection of sacred writings of
Zoroastrianism (6)
3 Spectacular display
or ceremony (9)
4 A woodwind instrument
with a double reed (4)
5 A slang word for
nonsense (10)
6 The large, bag-like mammary gland of cows or sheep (5)
7 Mother –––, Roman Catholic missionary awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1979 (6) 8 A country house or cottage
in Russia (5)
9 Look after a child or children
while the parents are out (7) 10 A rubber-soled item of footwear made of canvas
and tied with laces (6,4)
16 The flat surface above a shop window on which
the name is written (6)
18 Small island republic in the South West Pacific,
west of Kiribati (5)
20 A densely populated slum
area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically
deprived minority (6)
21 Hungarian actor known for playing Count Dracula in a 1931 film (4,6)
22 British athlete who won the 800m at the 1980
Olympic Games (5,5)
25 A member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154 (9)
27 ––– May, Conservative MP who was Prime Minister from 2016-19 (7)
29 Recommendation as to an appropriate choice of action (6)
30 A group of seven singers
or instrumentalists (6)
32 A county of South West Ireland, the county town of which is Tralee (5)
33 A specialised leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower
growing in its axil (5)
35 An island of Indonesia south of Borneo and the location
of the country’s capital (4)