THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £1,500
There’s an amazing £1,500 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. Entries must arrive by Friday, July 12 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, July 28. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
ACROSS
10 A ground-living nocturnal parrot of New Zealand (6) 11 Port on the Tyne estuary, formerly in County Durham (5,7) 12 Line of stone or concrete forming an edge between a pavement and a roadway (4) 13 A republic in South America, on the Pacific, whose flag features Chimborazo, the country’s highest mountain (7) 14 South West African republic, the capital of which is Luanda (6) 15 Sad clown character from French pantomime with a whitened face and white costume (7) 16 Fruits such as strawberries or apples, also called false fruits or accessory fruits (11) 20 Mount – – –, an active volcano in East Sicily (4) 21 Painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue (7) 22 Florentine painter of the late Middle Ages whose works include frescoes in the Scrovegni or Arena Chapel, Padua (6) 23 György – – –, HungarianAustrian composer of contemporary classical music (6) 25 – – – knot, a complicated and intricate fastening that Alexander the Great cut with a sword (7) 27 Long-lived freshwater fish that can grow up to a metre in length (4) 28 To arrange, present or supervise from behind the scenes (5-6) 29 A prolonged period of scanty rainfall (7) 32 A trinket or charm worn as a protection against evil (6) 35 Edwin – – –, British architect who designed The Cenotaph on Whitehall (7) 36 Raoul – – –, French Fauvist painter, noted for his open-air scenes (4) 37 Decorative bedspreads (12) 38 Greek island in the Aegean Sea, largest of the Dodecanese and home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (6)
DOWN
1 Popular holiday destination in North West England, location of England’s highest mountain (4,8) 2 The capital city of Australia, birthplace of tennis player Nick Kyrgios (8) 3 Short jacket not reaching the waist, with or without sleeves and open at the front (6) 4 A topic of interest or discussion (5) 5 A road with one end blocked off, dead end (3-2-3) 6 Cooked cold meats, or a shop selling them (11) 7 An African tree whose seeds yield a butter-like fat used in food and soap-making (4) 8 Manuel – – –, economist, lawyer, politician and military leader who created the flag of Argentina (8) 9 A material object, especially a carved image, worshipped as a god (4) 17 Barrel – – –, machine that plays music when you turn the handle on the side, formerly played in the street (5) 18 English dramatist and screenwriter whose plays include Amadeus (5,7) 19 Current manager of Liverpool FC, winners of the UEFA Champions League 2018-19 (6,5) 21 Surname of two German academic brothers who were best known for publishing collections of folk and fairy tales (5) 24 American name for an aubergine (8) 26 Macaroni in the form of short, ridged, often slightly curved pieces (8) 27 Large pot with a lid and handle, used for cooking over an open fire (8) 30 In the Roman Catholic Church, a series of prayers counted out on a string of beads (6) 31 Hermann – – –, Germanborn novelist who wrote Der Steppenwolf, awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature (5) 33 – – – Jae-in, President of South Korea since 2017 (4) 34 A long and often difficult journey (4)