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, February 11 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, February 27. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

1 Mary ---, brigantine merchant ship discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and abandoned (7)

5 Embroidery done on canvas with the same stitch throughout (11)

10 See 32 Down

11 Strips of ground from which aircraft take off and land (7)

13 Wires, cables or other conductors for making electrical connections (5)

14 The period from conception to childbirth (9)

15 A public display or performance, especially a showy or ceremonial one (9)

16 The Hay ---, painting by John Constable, finished in 1821 (4)

17 Finnish composer whose works include the symphonic poem Finlandia (4,8)

20 The yellow middle part of an egg (4)

21 Antoine ---, 18th-Century French chemist who named oxygen (9)

22 In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet of the 8th Century BC (4)

26 Part of the mind that can influence one’s behaviour without one being aware of it (12)

27 Augustus ---, Welsh painter famous for portraits of T. E. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas (4)

29 Christopher ---, Englishborn novelist whose works include Goodbye To Berlin and A Single Man (9)

31 The wings of a cruciform church, at right angles to the nave (9)

33 Loch ---, lake in east central Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned (5)

34 Italian anise-flavoured liqueur (7)

35 A large ray with wide wing-like pectoral fins, feeding on plankton (5)

36 Australian wind instruments made from long, hollowedout pieces of wood (11)

37 A dish of raw meat or fish sliced very finely or minced (7)

Down

1 A harsh discordant sound (9)

2 A machine for shaping, boring, cutting a screw thread in metal or wood (5)

3 Small spiny-finned fish of cold seas, with a soft scaleless body and the pelvic fins fused into a sucker (3,5)

4 A short trip undertaken to perform a necessary task or commission (6)

5 The first woman to serve as Speaker of the US House of Representatives (5,6)

6 Original surname of the author George Eliot (5)

7 Flat pieces of wood or plastic used by artists as surfaces on which to mix their paints (8)

8 19th-Century teacher who developed the most widelyused system of shorthand (5,6)

9 The canopies over four-poster beds (7)

12 In medicine, a sample of tissue or blood taken for examination (8)

16 Conducting oneself in a satisfactory manner (4-7)

18 Plants with round leaves and yellow, red or orange trumpet-shaped edible flowers (11)

19 Large and imposing houses (8)

23 Neat and orderly (9)

24 An old dance in quick triple time (8)

25 A gauze or silk fabric of the very finest texture (8)

26 A slang word for a crash helmet (7)

28 A fine-grained, dark igneous rock (6)

30 1941 animated Walt Disney feature film, featuring a baby elephant with huge ears (5)

32 and 10 Across An Italian dessert made from sweetened cream and gelatine (5,5)