THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Jimmy –––, US Teamsters union leader who disappeared in July 1975 (5) 4 ––– Glennie, virtuoso percussionist born in 1965 (6) 8 Georges –––, French artist who contributed to the development of Cubism (6) 12 ––– Celi, actor who played Largo in the Bond film Thunderball and Pope Alexander VI in The Borgias (6) 13 HMS Ark –––, an Invincible-class aircraft carrier decommissioned in 2011 (5) 14 Alpine peasant woman’s dress with a full skirt and closely fitted bodice (6) 15 11th Century Countess of Mercia who rode naked through Coventry in a protest against taxation (4,6) 16 James Michener novel taking its title from the Japanese word for goodbye (8) 17 Disney cartoon character originally called Dippy Dawg (5) 19 Psychological assessment process developed in the 20th Century by David Wechsler (1,1,4) 22 Biblical character who lost his strength when his hair was cut at the behest of Delilah (6) 25 James M. Cain crime story filmed in 1944 with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck (6,9) 28 The Diary Of ––– Wimp, a 1979 hit for the Electric Light Orchestra (6) 29 City on the island of New Providence, the capital of the Bahamas (6) 30 German philosopher of the late Enlightenment associated with absolute idealism (5) 32 General –––, TV soap in which Lynda Bellingham played Nurse Hilda Price (8) 35 Swiss body of water into which the river Linth flows (4,6) 37 Illinois city in which the comedian Richard Pryor was born (6) 38 Venomous snake of the genus Naja whose neck gives the appearance of a hood (5) 39 Founder and the first king of Thebes in Greek mythology (6) 40 Mustela nivalis, a small carnivore with a long, slender body (6) 41 Gerald –––, cartoonist whose work illustrated Pink Floyd’s The Wall and the TV series Yes Minister (6) 42 Rolling Stones song from their 1973 album Goats Head Soup (5)
DOWN
2 Language that evolved into Middle Low German in the 12th Century (3,5) 3 Yorkshire resort town on the North Sea coast between Scarborough and Bridlington (5) 5 One of the nicknames of Elizabeth I (6,5) 6 ––– And Other Assorted Love Songs, an album by Derek And The Dominos (5) 7 The younger of the Crane brothers in the TV sitcom Frasier (5) 8 A 1991 film starring Chesney Hawkes and Roger Daltrey (6,4) 9 Older brother of Moses in the Old Testament (5) 10 Beneath The –––, autobiography written by the jazz musician Charles Mingus (8) 11 Beauty treatment in which a neurotoxin protein is injected to reduce wrinkles temporarily (5) 18 ––– Phillips, GMTV presenter who also works as a stand-in on the Lorraine show (5) 20 Jessica ––– -Hill, current British national record holder for the heptathlon (5) 21 A 1989 Stephen King novel about an author with an evil parasitic twin (3,4,4) 23 Ceremonial headdress of a bishop (5) 24 What the white is aimed at in a game of snooker (6,4) 26 Geological epoch running from the end of the Pleistocene to the present day (8) 27 Melina –––, Greek singer and actress in the films Topkapi and Never On Sunday (8) 31 Nationality of people from Brno or Most (5) 33 ––– Saint-Germain, football club whose home ground is Parc des Princes (5) 34 Caroline –––, the first Green Party MP to be elected in the UK (5) 35 Sign of the zodiac represented by a set of scales (5) 36 Auguste –––, sculptor whose works include The Thinker and The Kiss (5)