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, August 4 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, August 20. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
1 Iris ---, author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (7) 5 (Of energy sources) capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing ecological damage (11) 10 Any prohibition resulting from social or other conventions (5) 11 A drain or covered channel that crosses under a road, railway etc (7) 13 --- rod, decorative item traditionally used to hold a carpet runner on steps (5) 14 Showing devotion to one’s own country (9) 15 Freelance photographers who specialise in shots of famous people (9) 16 A type of Greek flaky pastry in very thin sheets (4) 17 The fourth wife of Henry VIII (4,2,6) 20 A fixed basin, especially in a kitchen (4) 21 A large gun dog that can be trained to recover game (9) 22 A group of people or countries combined by a common interest or aim (4) 26 Attempting to obtain money by intimidation (12) 27 Brown ---, Britain’s fastest land mammal, introduced by the Romans (4) 29 Large, wolf-like dogs often used as guards or police dogs (9) 31 British writer who frequently wrote about his childhood in the Slad Valley (6,3) 33 Terrestrial or freshwater gastropod mollusc with a spirally coiled shell (5) 34 In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet exiled to Babylon (7) 35 A deep ravine, such as that spanned by The Iron Bridge in Shropshire (5) 36 An organisation that gathers, writes and distributes local and global news to newspapers, periodicals, broadcasters and government agencies (5,6) 37 An arctic whale, the male of which possesses a long, straight tusk that projects from the mouth (7)
Down
1 Figures of speech in which analogies are constructed between two things or ideas (9) 2 I,---, a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov (5) 3 A cactus-like plant of Mexico and the South West US, with scarlet tubular flowers (8) 4 In Greek myths, a goddess of the underworld (6) 5 The ability to exercise restraint over one’s feelings, emotions or reactions (4-7) 6 A domesticated mammal kept for wool or meat (5) 7 The two external openings of the nose (8) 8 The capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (11) 9 Insects with curved forceps at the tip of their abdomens (7) 12 Characterises, is representative of (8) 16 Famous hollow formed in the basalt coastline of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides (7,4) 18 The --- ---, nickname for Rome (7,4) 19 State of the North East US whose capital is Dover (8) 23 Christopher ---, English engineer who invented the hovercraft (9) 24 A bowling game in which players knock over as many pins as possible by rolling a wooden ball at them (8) 25 J.D. ---, American writer whose most famous work was The Catcher In The Rye (8) 26 Endures cheerfully (5,2) 28 The capital of the Republic of Ireland (6) 30 London suburb that was the birthplace of Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee (5) 32 Coniferous tree with deciduous, needle-like leaves and egg-shaped cones (5)