THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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Across
10 Jerome K. ---, English author of the comic novel Three Men In A Boat (6)
11 A nickname of
Illinois, US (7,5)
12 The Battle of --- Ridge, part of the Battle of Arras during the First World War (4)
13 The time at which a particular game of football starts (7)
14 The Diary Of A ---, 19thCentury comic novel written by George and Weedon Grossmith (6)
15 Island republic in the North Atlantic, the capital of which is Reykjavik (7)
16 --- Choo Choo, 1941 song originally recorded by Glenn Miller and
His Orchestra (11)
20 Term used to describe champagne that is dry (4) 21 A male singer of sentimental love songs, especially of the 1930s and ‘40s (7) 22 Resort in south-east
France, location of an annual film festival (6)
23 --- sweet, a hard sticky sweet (6)
25 A little booklet or piece of paper containing information (7)
27 Louis Antoine de Saint- ---, French Revolutionary leader guillotined with Robespierre (4)
28 29 Charles novel, criminal A narrow featuring Dickens’s Fagin strip of (6,5) the land second connecting land areas (7) two large
32 --- the Great, King of Wessex 871-899, who encouraged learning and writing in English (6)
35 A prime cut of beef (7)
36 Line of stone or concrete forming an edge between a pavement and a roadway (4)
37 The most northerly of the five major lines of latitude as shown on maps of Earth (6,6)
38 Long-legged wading bird with a long, slender, upward-curving bill (6)
Down
1 The author of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and its sequel (5,7)
2 A person with a command
of many languages (8)
3 A sleeveless and collarless
short jacket (6)
4 Dr. Benjamin ---, US paediatrician noted for his influential work The Common Sense Book Of Baby And Child Care (5)
5 A smooth-domed gem,
polished but unfaceted (8)
6 Small case of choux pastry
with a creamy filling (11)
7 Introduce an infant to nourishment other than milk (4) 8 Refusing to comply,
agree or give in (8)
9 Rounded projection on the sole of a boot or shoe to give better grip (4)
17 A cravat with wide,
square ends (5)
18 Arboreal rodent with a bushy tail, feeding on nuts and seeds (4,8)
19 Does the same as
someone else (7,4)
21 Coniferous tree with needle-like evergreen leaves and barrelshaped cones (5)
24 Name given to
young hares (8)
26 A condensed version of a piece of writing or speech (8)
27 16th-Century theologian and historian of the Scottish Reformation (4,4)
30 Light shoe consisting of a sole held on the foot by thongs or straps (6)
31 In golf, a score of one stroke over par on a hole (5)
33 Brian ---, former West Indian cricketer who scored 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994 (4)
34 A tube, pipe or canal by means of which a fluid or gas is conveyed (4)