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, May 14 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, May 30. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

10 A type of window that is built upright in a sloping roof (6)

11 High points of land, especially of rocky coast, that jut out into the sea (12)

12 In Mexican cookery, a filled tortilla folded into a roll and usually fried (4) 13 René –––, French ArtNouveau jeweller, glassmaker and designer (7) 14 A loaf of cooked, minced pig’s offal, eaten cold (6) 15 Mrs –––, 1942 film for which Greer Garson won a Best Actress Oscar (7) 16 Birds of prey that nest in marshes and open land (3,8)

20 Sugar –––, a coarse perennial grass having tall, stout stems that yield sugar (4)

21 Wreckage from a ship found floating (7)

22 A hasty or brief look (6) 23 ––– City, capital of the US state of Nevada (6) 25 A round flat pastry, cake or pancake (7)

27 The non-medical name for the uterus (4)

28 The 9th Marquess of ––– gave his name to a code of rules followed in boxing (11)

29 South African delicacy of strips of meat dried and cured in the sun (7)

32 Spaces or rooms within the roof of a house (6) 35 Shell-less marine gastropod mollusc (3,4)

36 The standard monetary unit of South Africa (4) 37 Large, shallow bay of the Indian Ocean between South East India and the island of Sri Lanka (4,2,6) 38 Mildly satirical mockeries or parodies (6)

Down

1 Port in Malaysia, the capital of Sabah state on the South China Sea (4,8)

2 Film loosely inspired by the life of British palaeontologist

Mary Anning, played by Kate Winslet (8) 3 A framework, especially of metal bars, arranged to form an ornamental pattern, used as a screen or partition (6) 4 A thin strip of wood or twisted paper with which pipes or fires are lit (5)

5 Bunches of flowers (8) 6 American religious leader, founder of Mormonism and the Latter-day Saint movement (6,5) 7 An irritation or tickling sensation of the skin (4)

8 Vegetable such as the cabbage, broccoli or turnip (8)

9 A type of hors d’oeuvre eaten in Greece and the Near East (4) 17 A dishonest or unprincipled person (5)

18 Sergei –––, Russian piano virtuoso, composer and conductor of the late Romantic period (12) 19 A male member of the United States House of Representatives (11) 21 In printing, sets of type of particular styles and sizes (5) 24 In the US, the chief lawenforcement officers of particular counties (8) 26 A region and former province of east France, the German name for which is Lothringen (8) 27 ABBA’s winning entry for Sweden in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest (8)

30 To take food or liquid into the body (6)

31 Alan –––, 20th Century British Conservative MP and diarist (5) 33 Person who sells tickets unofficially (4) 34 An upholstered seat with back and arms for two or more people (4)