THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN €2,000
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, April 21 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, May 7. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck! Across 10 Type of antelope of South and East Africa which has lyre-shaped horns (6) 11 French novelist whose works included the sevenvolume A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (6,6) 12 Small, South American rodent with a thickset body and short tail (4)
13 and 21 Down Austrian psychiatrist famous for his development of psychoanalysis (7,5) 14 Higher in rank or length of service (6) 15 Another name for a postmortem examination (7) 16 English author of popular fiction, famous for her Rutshire Chronicles (5,6) 20 A sheet of ice, often floating on the sea’s surface (4) 21 Soft felt or velvet, medium-brimmed hats with an indented crown (7) 22 An ancient town in central Egypt, the site of many temples and tombs (6) 23 In Greek myths, a nymph who was changed into a laurel tree (6) 25 In the Old Testament, the first of the patriarchs (7) 27 The ---, a theatre in Southwark, London, built in 1595 (4) 28 Extinct flying reptile which had membranous wings supported on an elongated fourth digit (11) 29 Traditional Gaelic social gathering with folk music, singing, dancing and storytelling (7) 32 Bertolt ---, 20th Century German dramatist and poet (6) 35 17th Century French playwright and actor, whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, famous for his comedies (7) 36 A drink, such as whisky, taken without added water (4) 37 To pension off (12) 38 --- cake, sugar-topped pastry with a filling of currants (6) Down 1 18th Century German philosopher whose most important work was the Critique Of Pure Reason (8,4) 2 Warship of the navy of Henry VIII, which sank in the Solent in 1545 (4,4) 3 Central US state, prone to tornadoes, whose capital is Topeka (6) 4 The last letter of the Greek alphabet (5) 5 A person who deals cards, collects bets etc at a gaming table (8) 6 Felix ---, German composer and conductor who wrote the overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream (11) 7 An artistic composition, especially a musical work (4) 8 A fish with a deep, compressed body, spiny dorsal fins and massive mobile jaws (4,4) 9 Norwegian city and home of the Munch Museum (4) 17 A deep fissure in the earth’s surface (5) 18 19th Century French painter whose works included Le Bar Aux Folies-Bergère (7,5) 19 The promotion of a person in rank or status (11) 21 See 13 Across 24 William ---, astronomer born in Hanover who discovered two moons of Saturn (8) 26 The tree within which the future Charles II hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester (5,3) 27 David O. ---, American film producer, best known for producing Gone With The Wind (8) 30 City known to the Romans as Isca Dumnoniorum (6) 31 American librarian who devised a system of book classification (5) 33 A mixture of fat and flour, used to thicken sauces (4) 34 Medium-to-dark greenish-blue colour (4)