Prize crossword
Across
1 Archaeological burial mounds or barrows (6) 4 A Lancashire borough, famously associated with the witch trials of 1612 (6) 8 Robert ____, Welsh manufacturer turned social reformer, and a founder of ‘utopian socialism’ and the co- operative movement in the 19th century (4) 9 William Augustus, Duke of ____, notorious for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745- 46 (10) 10 ____ of Hanover, a granddaughter of James VI and I, and mother of George I (6) 11 Greek commander of the Spartan fleet that defeated the Athenians in 405 BC, ending the Peloponnesian War (8) 12 Scottish town traditionally linked to runaway weddings (6) 14 The earliest-known name for Great Britain (6) 17 Site of a battle in 479 BC that ended the Persian invasion of Greece (6) 18 Heraldic silvery white (6) 20 Northumbrian birthplace of the Victorian heroine Grace Darling, rescuer of shipwrecked sailors (8) 22 Language of early Egyptian Christians (6) 23 German diplomat who played a key role in the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of 1939 (10) 24 A letter of the earliest Germanic alphabet (4) 25 19th/ 20th-century British archaeologist and Egyptologist, Sir Flinders ____ (6) 26 The Peace of ____, a series of treaties in 1713-14 that ended the War of the Spanish Succession ( 7)
Down
1 Village, south of York, the site of a battle in 1461 that secured the throne for Edward IV (6) 2 Disputes over this historical region of north-eastern China led to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 (9) 3 Xanthos and Patara were principal cities of this ancient Anatolian region (5) 4 Historically, a group of sailors empowered to forcibly recruit men into the navy (5,4) 5 Australian artist, best known for his series of Ned Kelly paintings (5) 6 First name of the great 18thcentury landscape gardener ‘Capability’ Brown (8) 7 Celebrated American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in May 1932 (6,7) 13 Niccolo Machiavelli’s most influential work, a 16th-century political treatise on the acquisition of power and state creation (3,6) 15 French imperial dynasty, ended by the 1870 battle of Sedan (9) 16 It was invented in the 18th century by Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel (8) 19 Muhammad Ali ____, the founder of Pakistan (6) 21 Founder and first emperor (1526-30) of northern India’s Mughal dynasty (5) 22 Hugh ____, 10th-century French king, founder of a major dynasty (5)