THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

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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 17 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, March 5. You must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter – and good luck!

Across

1 A long sandy peninsula in south-east Massachusetts (4,3)

5 --- --- analysis, an examination of the expense of a project and its advantages to society, as well as the revenue it generates (4-7)

10 Any of the 12 broad-faced grinding teeth in humans (5)

11 Alsatian sculptor, painter and poet; co-founder of the Dada movement in Zurich (4,3)

13 --- New World, dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley (5)

14 A woman who dominates an organisation or community (9)

15 A widely-used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 (9)

16 --- Award, annual literary award for science fiction or fantasy works and achievements (4)

17 A province of southeast Canada on the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy (3,9)

20 The hard or tough outer covering of an invertebrate such as a sea urchin or starfish (4)

21 A group of people chosen or appointed to perform a specified service or function (9)

22 An aromatic plant with umbrella-shaped clusters of yellow flowers (4)

26 A large breed of dog with a black-and-tan coat, originating in Scotland (6,6)

27 A spiny-finned marine food fish, such as the John ---, having a deep compressed body (4)

29 A system of rapid handwriting employing simple strokes and other symbols to represent words or phrases (9)

31 A burial vault, tomb or grave (9)

33 Evergreen tree cultivated for its edible shiny black fruits (5)

34 The home of Liverpool FC (7)

35 A group of three (5)

36 Freedom from bias or involvement (11)

37 The natural features of a landscape (7)

Down

1 A rich, soft creamy cheese (9)

2 --- whale, black, toothed whale occurring in all seas except Polar seas (5)

3 A railway coach for passengers (8)

4 Latin phrase meaning according to law (2,4)

5 Padded item of headgear worn for motorcycling etc. (5,6)

6 A fast and powerful overhead stroke in tennis (5)

7 --- oblige, French term for the supposed duty of the privileged class to be honourable and generous (8)

8 The state or degree of being easily or conveniently done (11)

9 A length of cord used to secure a curtain to one side (7)

12 Made unclean or contaminated (8)

16 Melodramatic displays of temperament (11)

18 Pleasant but tinged with sadness (11)

19 A republic in southern Africa, much of which is covered by the Kalahari Desert (8)

23 Colloquial name given to the third day of the Royal Ascot race meeting (6,3)

24 --- Ocean, body of water also known as the Antarctic Ocean (8)

25 A gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a spinning horizontal wheel (8)

26 --- Park, 2001 film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes (7)

28 Suit of cards marked with a black, heart-shaped leaf symbol (6)

30 Daniel ---, English writer whose most famous work was the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe (5)

32 Heinrich --, 19th-Century German poet and essayist (5)