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, May 17 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, June 2. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.

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10 The Roman goddess of the dawn (6)

11 The --- Museum of Art, visitor attraction on the edge of New York’s

Central Park (12)

12 and 21 Down Ghanaian diplomat who was Secretary-General of the UN 1997-2006 (4,5)

13 Industrial city and port on the River Rhine in western Germany (7)

14 Not strong or substantial (6)

15 Completely clean and

free from germs (7)

16 A form of market involving private individual sellers on a site hired for the occasion (3,4,4)

20 A flock of quails (4)

21 Very attentive and

listening carefully (3,4)

22 Appointments to meet,

especially secretly (6)

23 A vessel having a handle,

spout and narrow neck (6)

25 Tropical American trees bearing kidneyshaped nuts (7)

27 To close and open one eye

quickly or deliberately (4)

28 Damage, depreciation or loss resulting from ordinary use (4-3-4)

29 In Greek mythology, the dwelling place of the blessed after death (7) 32 Louisa May ---, 19thCentury American novelist who wrote

Little Women (6)

35 The state of

being married (7)

36 The yarns arranged

lengthways on a loom (4)

37 Name given to the king of England who succeeded his father William the Conqueror (7,5)

38 --- Tunes, American animated franchise owned by Warner Bros. (6)

Down

1 Apparently from nowhere (3,2,3,4)

2 Professor ---, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes in stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8)

3 The derived SI unit of pressure, named after a French physicist (6)

4 Song composed by Charlie Chaplin, recorded for the first time with lyrics by Nat King Cole in 1954 (5)

5 In Christianity, marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ (8)

6 A portable cradle for a baby, often made of straw or wicker (5,6)

7 A close-fitting cap worn under a veil, worn by women in the Middle Ages (4)

8 The last racehorse to win the English Triple Crown (8)

9 See 30

17 Captain Lawrence ---, Antarctic explorer who died on the return leg of a 1912 expedition to the South Pole (5)

18 Area of Paris on the South Bank of the River Seine (5,7)

19 Former wicket-keeperbatsman who captained the England cricket team briefly in the 1990s (4,7)

21 See 12 Across 24 Waterspout carved in the form of a grotesque face or creature and projecting from a roof gutter (8)

26 A deadlock or stalemate (8)

27 Vivienne ---, fashion designer made a dame in 2006 (8)

30 and 9 The --- ---, 1960s sitcom which starred James Bolam and Rodney Bewes (6,4)

31 Capital of the US state of Idaho (5)

33 In Hawaii, garlands of flowers worn around the neck (4)

34 Large tree of the East Indies, yielding a valuable dense wood (4)