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 21 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, November 6. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

1 US river rising in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia (7)

5 Exercising weights consisting of heavy balls with handles (11)

10 A savoury jelly based on

meat or fish stock (5)

11 A triangle having all sides

of unequal length (7)

13 A sudden forward

motion (5)

14 Major Spanish city; the

capital of Catalonia (9)

15 A Croatian port, nicknamed the ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’ (9)

16 One of the basic patterns of

the human fingerprint (4)

17 Late-Romantic

Austrian composer and conductor (6,6)

20 Uncommon or unusual (4) 21 A plant with typically blue or white bellshaped flowers (9)

22 Ancient Egyptian fertility goddess; wife and sister of Osiris (4)

26 Item of laboratory equipment producing a hot, blue flame, consisting of a metal tube with an adjustable air valve (6,6)

27 The male of the deer, especially the red deer aged five years or more (4) 29 A journey to a place and back again, especially returning by a different route (5,4) 31 The English Royal House that reigned from 1399 to 1461 (9)

33 Genus of flowering plants which includes some heathers (5)

34 Herbert Henry ---,

Prime Minister of the UK 1908-16 (7)

35 A long period of time (5)

36 People who enforce hard

or continuous work (11)

37 Willie ---, English cartoonist, comedian and writer; co-founder of Private Eye (7)

Down

1 To perform a piece of music on an instrument without written music (4,2,3)

2 A thin candle or a thin wooden or waxed strip for transferring a flame (5)

3 Louis ---, Irish poet and playwright, one of the ‘Thirties poets’ or Auden Group (8)

4 --- and Pollux, in classical mythology, the twin sons of Leda (6)

5 The capital and largest

city of Malaysia (5,6)

6 Thick woollen cloth produced originally in Scotland (5)

7 --- Castle, private residence of the Royal Family in Aberdeenshire (8) 8 A cupboard for storing sheets, towels, and tablecloths (5,6) 9 The presiding officer of the

House of Commons (7)

12 Town in south Wales (4,4) 16 The study or practice of all aspects of flight through the air (11)

18 Cuts of pork or other meat from between the sirloin and ribs (11)

19 The capital city of Australia, on the Molonglo River (8)

23 An echinoderm with a globular body enclosed in a rigid spiny shell, occurring in shallow marine waters (3,6)

24 Of a still body of water with no waves and no wind (4,4)

25 Whale-like mammals of tropical waters, having a prehensile upper lip and a broad, flattened tail (8)

26 Elizabeth --- Browning, 19th-century poet whose works include Sonnets From The Portuguese, first published in 1850 (7)

28 Heavy, hooked device dropped overboard to restrict a vessel’s movement (6)

30 A feeling of resentment

or irritation (5)

32 Spotted game fish, mostly of fresh water in northern regions (5)