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, October 6 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, October 22. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
10 In gymnastics, a type of vaulting horse fitted with two curved handles (6) 11 British Labour statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976 (6,6) 12 King ---, Shakespeare tragedy based on the legend of a legendary pre-Roman monarch (4) 13 The flesh of a deer, used as food (7) 14 The indigenous religion of Japan (6) 15 A blue-flowered plant whose dried and ground roots are used as a coffee substitute (7) 16 Norwegian artist whose most famous work is The Scream (6,5) 20 --- Sea, home of the world’s largest marine reserve off Antarctica in the Southern Ocean (4) 21 A treeless grassy plain of the central United States or Southern Canada (7) 22 A peninsula of South West Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal (6) 23 A dealer in foodstuffs and other household supplies (6) 25 Edith ---, British poet and critic who became a Dame in 1954 (7) 27 In cricket, either of the two small wooden bars placed upon the stumps to form the wicket (4) 28 J. --- ---, US lawyer and the first director of the FBI (5,6) 29 A yellowish resin secreted by an insect, used in varnishes and polishes (7) 32 A rigid support for restricting the movement of a broken bone (6) 35 One of a breed of swift, smooth-coated gun dogs (7) 36 European capital built on seven hills; the start (or end) point of the Via Appia (4) 37 Swedish tennis player who won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the 1980s (4,8) 38 The pungent-tasting root of a member of the mustard family, eaten raw in salads (6)
Down
1 Polish-British writer whose works included Nostromo and Lord Jim (6,6) 2 Clasps another person in one’s arms; hugs (8) 3 Plant with trifoliate leaves and dense flower heads, one of the main nectar sources for honeybees (6) 4 City and port in North West Belgium, the capital of East Flanders province (5) 5 A person who campaigns vigorously for the advancement of a political, social or religious cause (8) 6 A line of English kings, ruling from the ascent of Henry II to the death of Richard III (11) 7 Pointed hand tools used for piercing wood or leather (4) 8 The vertical height of an object above some chosen level, especially above sea level (8) 9 Aquatic bird with lobed toes, dark plumage and a white bill (4) 17 Instruction or training in military exercises (5) 18 The minimum amount of fissionable material that can sustain a nuclear chain reaction (8,4) 19 A drama depicting the sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death (7,4) 21 A freshwater, spinyfinned fish, valued as a food and game fish (5) 24 1748 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson (8) 26 Novelette by Daphne du Maurier which inspired a 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (3,5) 27 The capital and largest city of Serbia (8) 30 African city, founded as Fort Salisbury in 1890, the capital of Zimbabwe (6) 31 Ringo ---, stage name of Richard Starkey, writer of Octopus’s Garden (5) 33 A loud, prolonged, usually reverberating sound, as of bells, thunder or laughter (4) 34 A group of three singers or instrumentalists (4)