Pit your wits against our prize puzzle
ACROSS
1 The 11th month of the French revolutionary calendar; the month of heat (9)
6 Fruit stewed with sugar or in
a syrup, served hot or cold (7) 10 A person who deceives others by assuming a false identity (8)
11 The quality of being able to accept the beliefs, actions and opinions of others (9)
12 17th-century Dutch painter
and etcher (9)
13 Small parasites living on the skin of warm-blooded animals (5)
15 _ Leith, a judge on TV’S The
Great British Bake Off (4)
16 _ Zedong, founder of the
People’s Republic of China (3) 17 A name for the Asian part
of Turkey (8)
18 Any of a genus of grasses cultivated as pasture and for lawns (6)
21 Simple card game (4)
23 A former princely state of the British Raj, passed to Pakistan in 1947 (4)
25 Symbols used in combination with dots in the written representation of Morse code (6)
27 A device attached to
a hairdryer (8)
28 A member of a group of teenagers in the mid-1960s who opposed the rockers (3) 29 An alcoholic drink made
from fermented honey (4)
31 The chief port and most
populous city of Nigeria (5)
32 The Roman name for
Scotland (9)
34 Emmeline _, political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement (9)
35 Nickname of Manfred von Richthofen, German First World War fighter pilot (3,5) 36 The region outside the suburbs of a city, consisting of residential areas occupied by rich commuters (7)
37 The upright at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting a handrail (5,4)
DOWN
2 Greek philosopher and physician regarded as the father of medicine (11)
3 A roadside hotel for
motorists (5)
4 A construction with a gable roof and a window at its outer end that projects from a sloping roof (6)
5 The period in someone’s life after they have stopped working because of having reached a particular age (10) 6 The capital and chief port
of Sri Lanka (7)
7 Printed or written notices for
public display; posters (8)
8 Mammal such as an anteater,
sloth or armadillo (8)
9 A nocturnal bird with a cryptic
plumage and large eyes (8) 14 The capital of North Macedonia, on the Vardar River (6)
15 Groups of two people,
animals or things (5)
19 _ Tower, Parisian monument erected for the 1889 Paris Exposition (6)
20 Members of a maritime force which aids shipping, saves lives at sea, prevents smuggling, etc (11)
21 Small brown European songbird with white underparts, nesting in tunnels bored in river banks, etc (4,6)
22 Provided with repeatedly
or persistently (5)
24 A port in eastern Australia;
the capital of Queensland (8) 25 One of the personal followers of Christ during his life, especially one of the 12 Apostles (8)
26 Erich _, head of state of
East Germany 1976-89 (8)
28 The Roman goddess
of wisdom (7)
30 The patron saint of
Scotland (6)
33 An effect produced in singing by an abrupt change of register from the chest voice to falsetto, especially in Swiss folk songs (5)