THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 The –––, a range of limestone hills in South West England containing the Cheddar Gorge (7) 5 American state whose capital city is Boise (5) 8 Northanger –––, Jane Austen novel in which Catherine Morland is the main character (5) 13 Coastal town in the East Neuk of Fife near St Andrews (10) 14 ––– Books, publisher whose output included the Peter And Jane children’s books (8) 15 Smoothly, a musical term for a piece played with the notes running into each other (6) 16 Witch who was the daughter of Helios in Greek mythology (5) 17 German author of the novel The Sorrows Of Young Werther (6) 18 Undersea children’s puppet programme with Troy Tempest and Atlanta Shore as characters (8) 20 Philosopher who was taught by Socrates and who taught Aristotle (5) 21 ––– Kazan, director of On The Waterfront and East Of Eden (4) 23 Radio broadcasting process abbreviated to AM (9,10) 27 and 28 Down Creator of the Famous Five and the Secret Seven (4,6) 28 Music that originated in the Deep South of the USA in the late 19th Century (5) 29 3-D optical illusions technically called random dot autostereograms (5,3) 31 Rupert –––, sitcom character played by Leonard Rossiter (6) 33 Arab country sharing borders with Saudi Arabia and Oman (5) 35 Chinese philosophical and religious tradition using the I Ching as its central text (6) 37 Canadian province situated between Saskatchewan and Ontario (8) 38 Cricket team that won the ICC World Cup in 1975 and 1979 (4,6) 39 Dinosaur character in the Super Mario video games (5) 40 ––– Hughes, Sandra Hutchinson in The Liver Birds (5) 41 With Six You Get –––, a Doris Day movie of 1968 (7)

DOWN 2 The Fastest Milkman In The West according to the Benny Hill song (5) 3 Disembark from public transport (7) 4 Someone who has power because of their wealth (9) 6 Albrecht –––, Nuremburg-born painter and engraver of the German Renaissance (5) 7 St ––– of Bingen, 12th Century Benedictine abbess and composer (9) 9 Region in the South East and central part of the USA characterised by socially conservative Christianity (5,4) 10 Third planet out from the sun (5) 11 John Wyndham story about a boy’s mysterious imaginary friend (6) 12 Slow movement in a piece of music (6) 19 ––– Of Athens, Shakespeare play written around 1605-06 (5) 20 Members of the genus in Felidae that contains the cougar and jaguarundi (5) 22 Ebony And –––, a No1 hit by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (5) 24 ––– Black Mambazo, South African group featured on Paul Simon’s Graceland album (9) 25 Covent Garden street that is home to the Theatre Royal (5,4) 26 ––– McQueen, character in the Pixar movie Cars voiced by Owen Wilson (9) 28 See 27 Across 29 Philosophical doctrine of the singleness of a concept in contrast to dualism or pluralism (6) 30 Thick soup or stew containing clams or fish (7) 32 The final stage of an insect’s development (5) 34 Song with lyrics written by Paul Anka, popularised by Frank Sinatra (2,3) 36 Sapphire and –––, TV sci-fi drama starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum (5)