PRIZE CROSSWORD
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6 Major Peter Norman ___, designer of a prefabricated corrugated steel shelter used in both world wars (6)
8 See 24 down.
11 Sir Richard, entrepreneur of the industrial revolution, constructor of a waterpowered spinning frame (9)
12 The 1971 ‘beta’ version of the Greek Cypriot nationalist movement, led by Georgios Grivas, its aim being the union of Cyprus with Greece (4,1)
13 eg the Hindenburg, destroyed in 1937 (7)
14 16th-century chief advisor to the Russian tsar, whom he succeeded in 1598 (7)
15 A medieval landholder, often a guard or attendant of a noble family (6)
17 A future US president who, in 1941, exposed waste and fraud in war contracts (6)
21 The ___ Riots of the mid-19th century targeted Welsh toll-gates to protest against an unfair tax system (7)
23 Effective ruler of Rome when Tiberius withdrew to Capri; executed in AD 31 (7)
26 Historically, that part of a person’s income paid over to the church (5)
27 Communist leader, executed in 1989, whose regime collapsed after his troops fired on demonstrators (9)
28 US-born English artist awarded a derisory farthing damages in his 1878 libel suit against art critic John Ruskin (8)
29 Ancient people of what is now eastern and north-eastern Scotland, possibly named after their custom of body painting or tattooing (5)
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1 Battle in 1402 at which forces of the Turkic ruler Timur defeated those of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I (6)
2 The ___ tax, based on the number of fireplaces in a household, was applied in England between 1662 and 1689 (6)
3 Feudal levy a lord could exact from his vassal in lieu of military service (7)
4 The Julian one was replaced by a more accurate version introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582 (8)
5 Byname of Welsh politician who spearheaded the introduction of the National Health Service in Britain (3,5)
7 Indonesia’s first president, who established an autocratic system he called ‘Guided Democracy’ (7)
9 Substitute money, for example as used to pay employees, redeemable only at the company store (5)
10 See 16 down.
15 The successful siege of this site in 1781 by American and French forces against the British effectively ended military operations in the Revolutionary War (8)
16/10 Civilisation emerging c3000 BC, at its most powerful during the New Kingdom (16th–11th centuries BC) (7,5)
18 1842 legislation prohibiting women, girls, and boys under 10 from working underground in the British coal industry (5,3)
19 Term used for (imprecisely defined) border areas, such as that of Wales and England (7)
20 ___ Watts (1674–1748), regarded as the ‘father of English hymnody’ (5)
22 South Africa-born entrepreneur ‘Billy’, whose holiday camps became a multi-million pound business (6)
24/8 US senator who came to prominence in 1950 with unsubstantiated accusations of communist subversion in government circles (6,8)
25 Tunisian city on site of the ancient Phoenician colony of Hadrumetum (6)