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, February 5 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, February 21. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
1 South American soldier and liberator who gave his name to Venezuela’s standard monetary unit (5,7) 8 A sample of cloth (6) 11 A person who maintains strict discipline (8) 12 – – – organ, an internal part of the body that is essential to life (5) 13 Informal Italian word for hello or goodbye (4) 14 A Japanese padded quilt, laid on the floor for use as a bed (5) 15 Doctors who specialise in the heart and its diseases (13) 17 Supporters of the belief that violence of any kind is unjustifiable (9) 19 Ancient major trading city on the West Coast of Asia Minor, famous for the nearby Temple of Artemis (7) 23 In the Old Testament, Adam’s third son, given by God in place of Abel (4) 24 A celestial body orbiting around a planet or star (9) 25 A small opening in the skin (4) 26 Decorative flags, pennants and streamers (7) 28 A famous person, especially in entertainment (9) 31 British-born writer whose novels include The Good Soldier and Parade’s End (4,5,4)
34 An impure form of quartz used as a gemstone and in making pestles and mortars (5) 36 – – – bladder, a muscular, pear-shaped sac that stores bile and ejects it into the duodenum (4) 37 A seasoned, jellied loaf made from the head and feet of a pig or calf (5) 38 A pan with a perforated bottom, used for straining or rinsing foods (8) 39 Large, broad-winged, fish-eating bird of prey (6) 40 A region affected by a bad accident or occurrence (8,4)
Down
2 In Greek mythology, the son of the inventor Daedalus (6) 3 Practitioner of a system of healing based on the manipulation of parts of the body (9) 4 – – – Street, road in London’s West End linking Piccadilly and Oxford Street (4) 5 An opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in Venice in 1853 (2,8) 6 (Of a colour) very bright, having a very high saturation or purity (5) 7 A fixed allowance of food, especially for civilians in times of scarcity or soldiers in wartime (6) 8 A discharge of fire from weapons in unison, especially on a ceremonial occasion (5) 9 A collection of records of or about an institution or family (7) 10 Maritime force which aids shipping, saves lives at sea and prevents smuggling (10) 16 Jacqueline – – –, children’s author who created Tracy Beaker (6) 18 A fine net fabric of silk or rayon (5) 20 – – – Trudeau, Canadian Liberal Prime Minister 1968-79 and 1980-84 (6) 21 A popular red or white wine from southern Burgundy, France (10) 22 Flippant gibes or sardonic remarks (10) 25 The southernmost region of South America, in Argentina and Chile (9) 27 A young child, usually between the ages of one and two-and-a-half (7) 29 Catherine – – –, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, beheaded in 1542 (6) 30 Tommy – – –, English entertainer who starred in the musical comedy Half A Sixpence on stage and screen (6) 32 A monastery or convent under the supervision of an abbot or abbess (5) 33 The long, pointed, hollow or grooved teeth of venomous snakes (5) 35 The small, sour fruit of the blackthorn (4)