SPIRAL XWORD

Coturnism is an illness that results from eating what animal if they’ve fed on poisonous plants? The answer to each clue (apart from the first) begins with the last letter of the preceding answer. The shaded squares will spell the one-word prize answer. 1 Long-eared hoofed mammal (6)

2 2008 Jim Carrey film (3,3) 3 Evening dancing venue (9) 4 The Old _, Central Criminal Court (6)

5 Give way (5) 6 Something less impressive than expected (4,5) 7 Bribe (10) 8 Kidnapper’s payment (6) 9 British association of magicians (5,6)

10Second book of the Bible, mass departure (6)

11 Two final years of secondary school (5,4)

12 Edible nut from an Australian tree (9)

13 _ Sandler, US comic actor (4) 14 Mediterranean island country; capital Valletta (5) 15_ Christie, crime writer (6)

16Nationality of Sigmund Freud (8)