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, November 18 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, December 4. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

1 Aromatic substance obtained from an East

Asian evergreen tree, used in medicines and mothballs (7)

5 Mischievous elves in Irish folklore (11)

10 Paul ---, protagonist of D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons And Lovers (5)

11 A short, memorable saying embodying some commonplace fact or experience (7)

13 A deciduous tree or shrub with toothed leaves and conelike fruits (5)

14 The former official South African government policy of racial segregation (9)

15 Informal Italian restaurant (9)

16 The grassy surface layer of fields and pastures (4)

17 Fighting force established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English Parliamentarians (3,5,4)

20 Top and ---, to trim the ends of fruit or vegetables before cooking them (4)

21 A person who has charge of the contents of a church (9)

22 Diving birds of Northern oceans with black-andwhite plumage (4)

26 German engineer who invented a type of engine, which is named after him (6,6)

27 The --- In The Willows, 1908 children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame (4)

29 Predicted sequences of events (9)

31 A member of an ambulance crew (9)

33 The nest of an eagle or other bird of prey (5)

34 Philip ---, 4th Earl of Pembroke, one of the ‘incomparable pair of brethren’ to whom Shakespeare’s First Folio was dedicated (7)

35 To choose to be involved in a scheme (3,2)

36 Fortress near Maidstone, Kent, built in 1119 to replace an earlier Saxon manor (5,6)

37 An Arctic toothed whale with a black-spotted whitish skin and, in the male, a long spiral tusk (7)

Down

1 A person or group engaged in or prepared for a fight (9)

2 Santa ---, the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America in 1492 (5)

3 Sheath-like leather cases for guns (8)

4 Long, narrow, two-edged sword with a guarded hilt, used as a thrusting weapon (6)

5 David --- ---, British Liberal Prime Minister 1916-22 (5,6)

6 --- Gill, Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development and Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston (5)

7 Thoroughly or vigorously (8)

8 London ---, rapid transit system nicknamed the Tube (11)

9 Bacon that has alternate layers of meat and fat (7)

12 Chris ---, British cyclist who was Olympic champion in the 4000m Individual Pursuit at the 1992 Games (8)

16 Name given to a full thickness burn of the skin (5-6)

18 An outstanding work, achievement or performance (11)

19 Town in Kent, near the Strait of Dover; one of the Cinque Ports (8)

23 A sea-level waterway in Northeast Egypt, linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea (4,5)

24 Heavy knives, especially those used by butchers (8)

25 A person who attends movie showings (8)

26 City in New Mexico, USA, connected with a famous 1947 UFO incident (7)

28 The largest satellite of the planet Neptune (6)

30 To walk in a pompous manner (5)

32 A narrow channel dug in the earth for drainage or irrigation (5)