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, September 29 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, October 15. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
1 The administrative head of a museum or art gallery (7) 5 20th Century Algerian-born absurdist French author and philosopher awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 (6,5) 10 W.H. ---, Anglo-American poet, critic and librettist (5) 11 Port in North Belgium, on the River Scheldt, known as the ‘diamond capital of the world’ (7) 13 A device for connecting computers by a telephone line (5) 14 The English Royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1471 (9) 15 Percussion instruments; sonorous bent metal bars beaten with metal rods (9) 16 A member of the nobility (4) 17 Kentucky-born winner of the 2017 US PGA Championship (6,6) 20 Pseudonym of the English essayist Charles Lamb (4) 21 A domesticated cavy, commonly kept as a pet (6,3) 22 Large, gregarious songbird with a glossy black plumage (4) 26 The practice of performing charitable or benevolent actions for the love of humanity (12) 27 Flying insect, the largest of which are the Atlas and Hercules specimens (4) 29 People or things that act as advocates of an idea or cause (9) 31 A pair of spectacles or opera glasses mounted on a handle (9) 33 The maximum distance to which a gun will shoot or over which a missile will travel (5) 34 The longest river in Ireland, reputed home to a river monster named Cata (7) 35 --- Wilson, Australian actress who made her West End debut as Miss Adelaide in the musical Guys And Dolls (5) 36 In cricket, international games, usually parts of a series (4,7) 37 The residence or place of official business of an ambassador (7)
Down
1 and 28 19th Century novelist whose pen name was Currer Bell (9,6) 2 A colourless radioactive gas, considered to be a health hazard (5) 3 Village on the North Cornish coast, linked to the legend of King Arthur (8) 4 Browns or dries coffee by exposure to heat (6) 5 A system of fuel injection and combustion located behind the turbine of an aircraft jet engine to produce additional thrust (11) 6 Naval port in Brittany, North West France; home to a tall ships festival every four years (5) 7 A member of a Native American people from the Great Plains, now living in Oklahoma (8) 8 Novel by George Eliot featuring the characters Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate (11) 9 In Indian cookery, small triangular pastry cases containing spiced vegetables or meat, served fried (7) 12 A woman’s light dressing gown or negligee (8) 16 The ---, island country in South East Asia, in the western Pacific Ocean (11) 18 Items of sports equipment consisting of strong fabric suspended by springs from frames (11) 19 Finch-like seed-eating birds with short, stout bills (8) 23 Arthur ---, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (9) 24 A city in South West Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar (8) 25 In the US and Canada, a ventilated building used to dry and store maize (8) 26 A male character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume and pointed hat (7) 28 See 1 30 A fast and powerful overhead stroke in various racquet sports (5) 32 Pasta shapes of penne, rigatoni and ziti (5)