THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £1,500
ACROSS 1 Jean –––, Upstairs Downstairs actress once married to Jon Pertwee (5) 4 Describing an angle between 90 and 180 degrees (6) 8 Metallic element with the atomic number 27 (6) 12 Nickname given to Benito Mussolini by Italian Fascists (2,4) 13 Name given to an assembly or parliament in Icelandic, Norse and Old English (5) 14 Miracle of the five ––– and fish, Biblical account of Feeding The Multitude (6) 15 Columba leuconota, dark-headed bird found in the Himalayas (4,6) 16 Blend of oriental teas flavoured with bergamot (4,4) 17 The capital city of Belarus (5) 19 The –––, an Elmore Leonard novel first published in 1978 (6) 22 The ––– Society, British organisation for socialist reform, founded in 1884 (6) 25 Twilight Of The Gods, a Wagner opera in the Ring cycle (15) 28 Greek town, home to the Oracle known as the Pythia (6) 29 Swinging Sixties crime movie released in 2000 starring three members of All Saints (6) 30 Large constellation in the night sky representing a water snake (5) 32 Monkey species of the family Callitrichidae (8) 35 Mischievous little man in Irish folklore (10) 37 Town in the Lazio region of Italy renowned for the Villa d’Este gardens (6) 38 ––– Mann, singer who provided the soundtrack for the movie Magnolia (5) 39 Jody –––, player who debuted for Chelsea at the age of 17 years and 43 days in 1996 (6) 40 Lady In –––, a 1968 movie starring Raquel Welch and Frank Sinatra (6) 41 Powerful alkali originally obtained by leaching wood and evaporating the solution (6) 42 Underground railway system in Paris (5)
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2 Space Shuttle that made its final voyage in July 2011 (8) 3 Algonquin word for a Native American woman, now seen as offensive (5) 5 Peter –––, comedian who appeared in a great many Carry On films (11) 6 ––– City Blue, single released from the Blondie album Eat To The Beat (5) 7 British comic in which Dan Dare, Pilot Of The Future made his first appearance (5) 8 Organic compound once widely used as an anaesthetic (10) 9 Fort –––, a large US army base situated in North Carolina (5) 10 Vassal, person under a feudal tenure (8) 11 ––– Leiter, CIA operative in the James Bond novels and films (5) 18 A 1980 No6 UK hit for The Brothers Johnson (5) 20 Runaway –––, Jon Voigt and Eric Roberts film from a story by Akira Kurosawa (5) 21 Scientific name for the human species (4,7) 23 The Tale Of Benjamin –––, a Beatrix Potter book (5) 24 Popular eating plan involving low-carb recipes (6,4) 26 Photographic image in which the lights and shades are reversed (8) 27 Alex Kingston film featuring Clive Owen as a casino worker (8) 31 Alabama city famous for its 1960s Voting Rights Movement (5) 33 Henry –––, English abstract sculptor 1898-1986 (5) 34 Maria Von –––, Julie Andrews’s character in The Sound Of Music (5) 35 No –––, a UK No1 hit for 2 Unlimited in 1993 (5) 36 ––– the Hunter, horned English folklore figure mentioned in The Merry Wives Of Windsor (5)