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, August 5 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, August 21. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
10 A small room at the top
of a house (6)
11 An unanticipated or uncontrollable event which releases one from fulfilment of a contractual obligation (5,7)
12 Intensive or exaggerated publicity or sales promotion (4)
13 In music, to be performed
in a brisk, lively manner (7)
14 US city in Michigan,
Grand --- (6)
15 American composer and musician who referred to himself as the ‘Father of the Blues’ (1,1,5)
16 Hereditary titles awarded by the British Crown (11) 20 A narrow, thin strip of wood or metal, as used in a Venetian blind (4)
21 The most celebrated of the Hindu deities (7)
22 The voluntary relinquishment of some claim or right (6)
23 A dealer in textile fabrics and fine cloth (6)
25 Any strong feeling, as of joy, sorrow or fear (7) 27 A set of clothes of the same material designed to be worn together (4)
28 American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (5,6)
29 Judy ---, American actress and singer who starred in the 1939 film The
Wizard Of Oz (7) 32 A bridge-like framework used to support signals over a railway track (6)
35 A quadrille dance for eight
or 16 couples (7)
36 Not Only... But ---, 1960s comedy sketch show starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (4)
37 Italian Renaissance painter noted for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (12)
38 Aromatic tree with smooth leaves, also called the bay tree (6) Down
1 The President of Ireland
1997-2011 (4,8)
2 Something made or given shape by a human, such as a tool or a work of art (8)
3 A street in Central
London, parallel to the Thames, famous for its hotels and theatres (6)
4 Phrase referring to people or things that existed long ago (2,3)
5 A combination of three letters used to represent a single speech sound or phoneme (8)
6 A region of south-west Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (11)
7 A species of large wild cattle, inhabiting mountainous regions of southern Asia (4) 8 Amerigo ---, Florentine navigator in the New
World, after whom the Americas were named (8)
9 Having little or no rain (4)
17 King of Northumbria who
converted to Christianity (5)
18 People present at an event who can describe what happened (12)
19 A pea-sized organ in the brain that secretes melatonin into the bloodstream (6,5)
21 City in west Russia; scene of a major Soviet victory over Nazi
Germany in 1943 (5)
24 Large, swift feline mammals with black-spotted light-brown coats (8)
26 A poisonous evergreen shrub or tree, with fragrant white, pink or purple flowers (8)
27 An outline of a course
of studies (8)
30 Saint ---, Italian
Benedictine monk who was Archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109 (6)
31 Ross ---, businessman who ran for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996 (5)
33 Line of a graph on which a scale of measurement is marked (4)
34 University in New
Haven, Connecticut, founded in 1701 (4)