THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 ––– Carroll, literary pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (5) 4 Vicomte de –––, one of the rivals in Laclos’s novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (7) 8 ––– Of A Woman, film for which Al Pacino won the Best Actor Oscar (5) 13 Gyorgy –––, avant-garde composer born in Transylvania, Romania in 1923 (6) 14 Bright star also known as Alpha Cygni (5) 15 Anchors –––, movie musical of 1945 starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra (6) 16 Battle fought on Sunday, June 18, 1815 (8) 17 ––– soup, cheap 18th Century meal made of brain and organ meats (4,6) 18 Ned –––, character played by Sean Bean in the TV series Game Of Thrones (5) 20 In astronomy, the proportion of incident light reflected by a planet (6) 22 Early 20th Century art movement pioneered by Picasso and Georges Braque (6) 26 Song that provided the title of a 1978 Dennis Potter TV drama (7,4,6) 28 Ancient Greek gymnasium where Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school (6) 29 ––– Lamont, leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011-14 (6) 30 Saint –––, 9th Century monk who devised an early version of the alphabet now used across Eastern Europe (5) 32 Medicinal North American shrub with yellow flowers, also called winterbloom (5,5) 36 Ill-fated BBC Spanish soap opera that ran from 1992-93 (8) 38 ––– gland, body in the brain that releases melatonin into the bloodstream (6) 39 Jeff –––, footballer who played 361 games for West Bromwich Albion and was capped five times for England (5) 40 Nickname of the Grange Hill character Peter Jenkins as played by Todd Carty (6) 41 John –––, English philosopher who postulated that the mind is a blank slate, or tabula rasa, at birth (5) 42 Catherine –––, actress in the films Belle De Jour and Repulsion (7) 43 Member of an ethnic group having short stature, often defined as being less than 150cm tall (5)

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2 ––– Doolittle, flower girl in Shaw’s Pygmalion (6) 3 The Paris Region, one of the 27 French administrative areas (3-2-6) 5 ––– And The Lion, folktale whose moral is one of reciprocated mercy (9) 6 Musical note equal to two crotchets (5) 7 Verdi opera in four acts composed in 1841 (7) 9 ––– And Present Danger, a Tom Clancy novel filmed in 1994 with Harrison Ford (5) 10 ––– Benn, British boxer with the nickname the Dark Destroyer (5) 11 Stringed instrument, larger than a fiddle but smaller than a cello (5) 12 Island 30 miles south of Cape Cod in the US state of Massachusetts (9) 19 ––– Turvy, a 1999 Mike Leigh movie about the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado (5) 21 Planet that orbits the sun between Venus and Mars (5) 23 Town in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor known as the Gateway to the Moor (5,6) 24 Mount –––, mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments in Biblical tradition (5) 25 Former Coventry City manager who went on to have a long career in sports broadcasting (5,4) 27 Dmitri –––, Russian chemist generally credited with formulating the periodic table (9) 29 Era of the early 20th Century heavily featured in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (4,3) 31 ––– Cavell, British nurse during the First World War who was executed by a German firing squad (5) 33 ––– Jones, English architect whose buildings include the Banqueting House in Whitehall (5) 34 Jonathan –––, fictional TV detective played by Alan Davies since 1997 (5) 35 The ––– Of Heaven, science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin first published in 1971 (5) 37 Dance band of which Professor Brian Cox was once a member (1-4)