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, April 23 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, May 9. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
11 The accounting department of the Treasury, responsible for receiving and issuing funds (9) 12 A skin condition characterised by the formation of itchy red or whitish raised patches (9) 13 The eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (5) 14 A variety of cooking apple with juicy, firm flesh (7) 15 Jumped suddenly from one place to another (5) 16 Theodoros – – –, Greek general and dictator, President of Greece for a short spell in 1926 (8) 18 Small, hard concretions of cholesterol, bile pigments and lime salts, formed in an organ of the body (10) 22 British organisation with the sole right to manufacture coins (5,4) 24 Nuts with hard, wrinkled shells (7) 27 Skilled worker or craftsperson (7) 28 Marquis de – – –, French general and statesman who fought in the American War of Independence (9) 30 A member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France (10) 32 See 35 35 and 32 Ruth – – – – – –, lawyer and judge, a member of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 (5,8)
37 Italian dish of pizza dough folded over a filling of cheese, tomatoes, herbs and ham (7) 38 European food fish, a flatfish similar to the turbot (5) 39 Of a building or object shaped like a cross (9) 40 A Y-shaped implement with a loop of elastic fastened to the ends of the two prongs (9)
Down
1 Obstructive or timeconsuming bureaucracy (3,4) 2 The author of the script for a film (12) 3 – – – Victrix, Roman settlement which evolved into Chester (4) 4 A communal village in the south-western US and parts of Latin America, consisting of one or more stone or adobe houses (6) 5 Surname of twin American tennis players Bob and Mike, winners of multiple Grand Slam doubles titles (5) 6 A large, powerful breed of dog with a short, usually fawn or brindle, coat (4,7) 7 The suspension of a judicial proceeding (4) 8 Feline mammal with a dark-spotted coat, native to Central and South American forests (6) 9 Another name for the killer whale (4) 10 A person who tells lies about their life and achievements in order to make them sound more exciting than they really are (9)
17 A very deep gorge or chasm (5) 19 L. S. – – –, English painter noted for his bleak Northern industrial scenes (5) 20 A person who has acquired wealth recently and is regarded as vulgarly ostentatious (7,5) 21 The 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig prime minister 1834 and 1835-41 (7,4) 23 Term for a golf course beside the sea (5) 25 Ancient plucked, stringed instruments (5) 26 A sloping rear end of a car, having a single door that is lifted to open (9) 29 Quickness of movement, nimbleness (7) 31 Sir Arthur – – –, British air marshal, commander-inchief of Bomber Command of the RAF 1942-45 (6) 33 A peninsula of South West Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal (6) 34 – – – Way, a Roman road in Britain between Lincoln and Exeter (5) 36 – – – machine, a synthesizer programmed to reproduce the sound of percussion instruments in variable rhythms and combinations (4) 37 Sound of a horse’s hooves striking the ground (4) 38 Concealed microphones used for recording conversations (4)