THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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, October 2 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, October 18. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. Across
10 A type of wooden house of Swiss origin, especially a holiday home at a ski resort (6) 11 Small, yellow-green fruits covered with tiny hairs and having a sharp taste (12) 12 See 34 Down 13 Amelia – – –, the first female aviator to fly the Atlantic nonstop (7) 14 A device into which an electric plug can be inserted in order to make a connection in a circuit (6) 15 Another name for a postmortem examination (7) 16 William – – –, British politician and philanthropist who was a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade (11) 20 Jean – – –, 20th Century novelist best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (4) 21 Southeast European country formerly a part of Yugoslavia, declared independence in 1991 (7) 22 Not strong or substantial, fragile (6) 23 Lacking ease of manner, awkward or tactless (6) 25 Strips of boneless meat or the boned sides of fish (7) 27 Informal term for a journal written online and accessible to internet users (4) People, typically celebrities, whose good looks excite romantic feelings (11) 29 A creation of the imagination, especially a weird or bizarre one (7) 32 A rigid support for restricting the movement of a broken bone (6) 35 Rudolf – – –, Russian-born ballet dancer and longterm dance partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn (7) 36 A reserve of money set aside for a certain purpose (4) 37 A game in which players act upon successive clues and are eventually directed to a prize (8,4) 38 A body of water cut off from the open sea by coral reefs or sand bars (6)
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1 A road from one place to another, especially a main road (12) 2 People devoted to eating and drinking to excess (8) 3 Freshwater, carnivorous mammals with smooth fur, streamlined bodies and webbed feet (6) 4 The marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in Ancient Greece (5) 5 Person who studies the classification, structure, physiology and ecology of plants (8) 6 Creatures with spines, including mammals, birds, reptiles and fish (11) 7 A place where service personnel eat or take recreation (4) 8 ‘Cubby’ – – –, film producer associated with Bond films (8) 9 A gala, bazaar or similar entertainment (4) 17 Gaps or spaces made by cleaving or splitting (5) 18 A trade bloc of nations, composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff (7,5) 19 Meetings for consultation, exchange of information or discussion, especially with formal agendas (11) 21 A person who is deliberately dishonest, especially for gain (5) 24 A knitted jacket or sweater with buttons up the front (8) 26 Leguminous tree with clusters of yellow, drooping flowers (8) 27 A dance step in the Brazilian samba (8) 30 Heavy iron or steel blocks on which metals are hammered during forging (6) 31 A. S. – – –, British novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1990 for Possession (5) 33 Central – – –, New York coffeehouse in the sitcom Friends (4) 34 and 12 Across 1969 film starring John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, for which he won his only Oscar (4,4)