Prize crossword

Across

Greek name for Khufu, the Egyptian pharaoh thought to have commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza (6)

4 Italian archbishop of Canterbury and trusted counsellor of William the Conqueror (8) 10 Australian city named after a 19thcentury British Whig prime minister (9)

11 Jan ____, South African statesman who played an important role in the establishment of the League of Nations (5)

12 Oscar Wilde addressed his De Profundis, written in Reading Gaol, to his lover, “____” (Lord Alfred Douglas) (5)

13 Location of the Jewry Wall, one of the tallest surviving sections of a Roman wall in Britain (9)

14 The Assyrian king Ashurbanipal is noted for assemDlinI the worldos first systematiEally organised one (7)

16 Regent of Russia who, in 1689, was forced to step down in favour of her half-brother Peter I (6)

19 Seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician who developed one of the worldos first meEhaniEal EalEulators

21 Ida ____, US investigative journalist whose The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) hastened the breaking up of that company’s monopoly (7)

23 Athenian dramatist, predecessor of Euripides and Sophocles, who transformed Greek tragedy with works such as Oresteia (9)

25 ____ Brooke Taussig (pictured), 20th-century US cardiologist celebrated for her work on “blue baby” syndrome (5)

27 Fourteenth-century grand prince of Moscow whose finanEial aEumen earned him the nickname “Moneybag” (4,1)

28 Stuart monarch much inʚuenEed Dy her Eonfidante 5arah %hurEhill until their bitter falling out (5,4)

29 A successful operation by the British to take this ridge in June 1917 was a prelude to the battle of Passchendaele (8)

30 Friedrich ____,German socialist philosopher who worked with Karl Marx (6)

Down

1 Malcolm and Donald ____, 20th-century father-and-son speed record-breakers (8)

2 Between 1892 and 1924, millions of immigrants to America passed through the processing station at ___ Island, New York (5) 3 The ____ system, a model of the universe with Earth at its centre, is named after the Alexandrian astronomer who formulated it (9)

Name, as spelled in Latin, of two Byzantine emperors of the Comnenus family in the 11th and 12th centuries (7)

6 Roman road linking Exeter to Lincoln (5)

7 Historical region of south-west France ruled by England’s kings from 1154 to the end of the Hundred Years’ War (9)

8 ____ Borgia, cited by Machiavelli as an example of a “prince” (6)

9 Popular Victorian novel by George du Maurier, the stage adaptation of which lent its name to a style of men’s hat (6)

15 Celebrated series of railway timetables and guidebooks launched by a 19th-century English cartographer (9)

17 Major classical Greek monument in Athens, considered to be the culmination of the Doric order (9)

18 “____ Mare”, a derogatory nickname for Anne of Cleves that’s often attributed to Henry VIII but was probably coined later (8) 20 René ____, French jewellery designer prominent in the Art Nouveau movement, now best known for his Art Deco glassware (7)

21 Traditional canopy, often ornate, over a tomb or, especially, a four-poster bed (6)

22 Radioactive element named by Marie and Pierre Curie, who discovered it in 1898 (6)

24 Republic on the island of Hispaniola that gained its independence in 1804 following a revolution by self-liberated slaves (5)

26 Dorothea ____, US documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression inʚuenEed future photoLournalism

Compiled by Eddie James