THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

There’s an amazing €2,000 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. Entries must arrive by Friday, March 11 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, March 27. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck! Acros s 1 United States air carrier in business from 1927-91 (3,2) 4 Georgia’s capital and largest city (7) 8 Michael –––, winner of the 1991 Wimbledon men’s singles title (5) 13 –– – Wolff, author of the memoir This Boy’s Life and the novel Old School (6) 14 ––– Comaneci, Romanian gymnast who won three gold medals in the 1976 Montreal Olympics (5) 15 L’–––, a novel by Emile Zola known in English as The Work (6) 16 ––– World, a Duran Duran single first released in 1992 (8) 17 One of the four humours in ancient Greek medicine along with its black equivalent, blood and phlegm (6,4) 18 Son of Laomedon and king of Troy during the Trojan War (5) 20 –– – Holiday, jazz singer nicknamed Lady Day by the saxophonist Lester Young (6) 22 ––– Through The Tulips, a 1929 song popularised in the 1960s by Tiny Tim (6) 26 Device that generates power directly from light (13,4) 28 One of the seven dwarfs in the 1937 Disney version of Snow White (6) 29 Central American country bordered by Colombia and Costa Rica (6) 30 Corsetry stiffened with strips of bone or metal (5) 32 The –––, a 1984 sci-fi film starring Anjelica Huston and John Carradine (3,7) 36 Cheshire market town that, in Roman times, supplied salt to the garrison at Deva Victrix (8) 38 Project –––, NASA’s human spaceflight programme that ran from 1961-66 (6) 39 Institute of Science and Technology that became part The University Of Manchester in 2004 (5) 40 Nickname for the football club that plays its home games at Fratton Park (6) 41 James –––, British inventor who famously designed a bagless vacuum cleaner (5) 42 In geology, bodies of intrusive igneous rock crystallised from slowly cooling magma below the Earth’s surface (7) 43 Member of a Germanic people who settled England in the 5th and 6th Centuries AD (5)

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2 Winner of the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2013 (5)

3 Something unseen or unknown that should not be bought according to a proverb (1,3,2,1,4)

5 British comedian whose TV theme tune was Yakety Sax (5,4)

6 G. Gordon –––, FBI agent implicated in the Watergate scandal (5)

7 American comic book writer with a hand in creating Spider-Man, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four (4,3)

9 General Tom –––, stage name of the Barnum circus performer Charles Sherwood Stratton (5) 10 The first name of Inspector Blake, also known as Blakey, in On The Buses (5) 11 Island of the Inner Hebrides lying south west of Jura (5) 12 Spring-activated exercise toy used for jumping (4,5) 19 Cathedral city in North Yorkshire near Harrogate and Thirsk (5) 21 Lord –––, Richard John Bingham, a peer finally certified dead in 2016, 42 years after his mysterious disappearance (5) 23 Oh –––, a Roy Orbison single of 1964 (6,5) 24 British comedy thriller movie of 1968 starring Tom Courtenay and Romy Schneider (5) 25 Powerful vessel that is a major element of Arthurian legends (4,5) 27 Eliphalet –––, 1793-1861, founder of the American arms manufacturer that still bears his name (9) 29 Stage name of the Miami-born rapper Armando Christian Perez (7) 31 Any of several wading birds of the genus Gallinago, characterised by long, slender bills (5) 33 Battle that provided an important English victory during the Hundred Years’ War (5) 34 ––– Levi, Italian author of If This Is A Man, an account of his time in Auschwitz (5) 35 Taylor –– –, singer whose albums include Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989 (5) 37 Wickerwork basket used to hold fish (5)