THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

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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, December 3 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, December 19. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.

Across

11 A battle fought in 1415 in Northern France, a decisive victory for Henry V’s English army (9)

12 The art of public speaking, especially of voice production, delivery and gesture (9)

13 A noisy riotous fight

or brawl (5)

14 The ---, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 (7)

15 A small rounded hill (5)

16 Margaret ---, Prime

Minister of the UK

1979-90 (8)

18 In the New Testament, the final battle at the end of the world (10)

22 A garment made of rough uncomfortable cloth worn next to the skin as a religious penance (4,5)

24 Pablo ---, Spanish artist, the co-founder of

Cubism, whose works include Guernica (7)

27 Painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, born in Crete (2,5)

28 To condemn

or prohibit (9)

30 --- deal, an agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual (10)

32 A method of marching such that the marchers follow one another as closely as possible (8) 35 A recess in a wall

or rock face (5)

37 A soft, silvery element; the

lightest known metal (7)

38 Small, delicate

and charming (5)

39 Surname of two

Prime Ministers, George (1763-65) and his son William (1806-07) (9)

40 Battle of ---, part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, featuring the Charge of the Light Brigade (9)

Down

1 A variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains (7)

2 Conservative life peer; chair of The Royal Foundation of the

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (7,5)

3 The culminating point of achievement or excellence (4)

4 Mr ---, beadle in Charles

Dickens’s Oliver Twist (6)

5 A collection of maps,

usually in book form (5)

6 In cricket, the voluntary closure of an innings before all ten wickets have fallen (11)

7 Chains or ribbons by which pocket watches are attached to waistcoats (4)

8 A clasp for fastening together two loose ends, especially of a belt or strap (6)

9 A very dry sherry (4)

10 A corner by a fireplace (9) 17 South American republic on the Pacific, the capital of which is Santiago (5)

19 A savoury jelly based on

meat or fish stock (5)

20 The --- --- ---, 1871 book by Charles Darwin applying evolutionary theory to human evolution (7,2,3)

21 Inequalities or differences, as in age, rank or wages (11)

23 --- ha’penny, a shuffleboard game played with coins or discs (5)

25 Francis ---, British scientist who identified the molecular structure of DNA with

James Watson in 1953 (5)

26 An important or

distinguished individual (9)

29 An occasion on which an institution may be visited by the public (4,3)

31 Number of disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel (6)

33 A gold-coloured alloy of copper, tin or zinc, used to decorate furniture and mouldings (6)

34 In Greek mythology, a daughter of Tantalus whose children were slain by

Apollo and Artemis (5)

36 In music, a symbol placed on the left-hand side of each stave (4)

37 Scottish singer born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (4)

38 Every one of two or more

people or things (4)