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, November 23 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, December 9. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!
Across
1 A region along the southwest coast of India, between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats (7) 5 A research vessel designed to operate under water (11) 10 Georg –––, Austrian-born designer of a famous type of pistol (5) 11 Anders –––, 19th Century Swedish astronomer who invented and gave his name to a scale of temperature (7) 13 Berkshire racecourse noted for its Royal meeting in June (5) 14 Didier –––, footballer turned coach who has won the World Cup as both a player and a manager (9) 15 Arrangement or position (9) 16 The meat of a cow, bull or ox (4) 17 Politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998-2002) (5,7) 20 A country, person or group united with another (4) 21 English Metaphysical poet and cleric (4,5) 22 The largest of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean (4) 26 London Underground station at the junction of Regent Street and Oxford Street (6,6) 27 A tract of unenclosed, uncultivated upland (4) 29 Extinct Mesozoic Era reptiles (9) 31 A former village in South Egypt, site of two temples of Rameses II (3,6) 33 In the Old Testament, the second son of Jacob and Zilpah and founder of one of the 12 tribes of Israel (5) 34 Records of debits, credits, scores in a game (7) 35 Sleeveless garment fastening up the front, often made from a quilted fabric (5) 36 State of hopelessness leading to rashness (11) 37 UK industrial town in North Cheshire, on the Manchester Ship Canal (7)
Down
1 A play or film characterised by extravagant action and emotion (9) 2 The chief port and most populous city of Nigeria (5) 3 ––– House, 16th Century country house built for William Cecil, Elizabeth I’s chief minister, home to an annual Horse Trials (8) 4 Flower cluster in which the flowers are borne along the main stem, with the oldest flowers at the base (6) 5 1861 novel by George Eliot, subtitled The Weaver Of Raveloe (5,6) 6 A small, non-rigid airship (5) 7 A cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off (8) 8 Franz –––, German former football player and manager, European Footballer of the Year 1972 and 1976 (11) 9 To give a person the right or permission to do something (7) 12 A heavy silk fabric with an irregular surface (8) 16 Small European birds, the males of which have bright red throats and breasts and black crowns (11) 18 The introduction of a serum, vaccine or antigenic substance into the body to produce immunity to a disease (11) 19 Leon –––, 19th Century French physicist who determined the velocity of light (8) 23 Maiden name of the Duchess of Cambridge (9) 24 To prepare food by freezing, drying or salting so that it will resist decomposition (8) 25 City in North RhineWestphalia, Germany, a centre of the cutlery industry (8) 26 A person who is skilled at something through long experience (3,4) 28 Pointer or flashing bar used to indicate a particular position on a computer screen (6) 30 Georg – – –, Hungarian-British conductor who won 31 Grammy Awards (5) 32 Fictional bear in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (5)