THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
There’s an amazing £1,500 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. The whole family will have fun trying to come up with the answers. Entries must arrive by Friday, June 6 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name will be published on Sunday, June 22.
ACROSS
1 Tony –––, songwriter who composed Downtown and The Crossroads Theme (5) 4 Design style of the 1920s and 1930s originating in Paris (3,4) 8 Tom –––, author of The Right Stuff and Bonfire Of The Vanities (5) 13 Frothy alcoholic drink, popular in the USA around Christmastime (6) 14 Germaine –––, author of Shakespeare’s Wife and The Whole Woman (5) 15 ––– Toscanini, Italian conductor 1867-1957 (6) 16 Inflammation of the lining surrounding the lungs (8) 17 ––– Special Agent, popular BBC Light Programme drama cancelled in 1951 (4,6) 18 Flowering plant of the genus Papaver (5) 20 Hernando –––, Spanish conquistador who died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi (2,4) 22 Nickname of actress Clara Bow in the 1920s (2,4) 26 Frank Capra’s 1951 film starring Jane Wyman and Bing Crosby (4,5,3,5) 28 American manufacturer of light aircraft and business jets (6) 29 Northamptonshire market town on the River Nene (6) 30 Inuit shelter built of snow (5) 32 People living in Britain in the early part of the 20th Century (10) 36 The ––– Papers, novel with Nathaniel Winkle and Augustus Snodgrass as characters (8) 38 J. Sheridan –––, Irish author of Gothic stories such as Carmilla and Uncle Silas (2,4) 39 Treacherous king of the Lapiths in Greek mythology, father of Centaurus (5) 40 Colourfully beaked bird used in old Guinness adverts (6) 41 Sean –––, actress in the movies Blade Runner and Dune (5) 42 Colloquial word for sleep (7) 43 Musical written by two members of ABBA and Tim Rice (5)
DOWN
2 Bright star in the constellation Perseus also known as the Demon Star (5) 3 Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich collectively (6,5) 5 The New Zealand All Blacks or South African Springboks, for example (5,4) 6 Judge –––, a comic book antihero who first appeared in 1977 (5) 7 Blue liqueur named after a Caribbean island (7) 9 Tarka The –––, novel by Henry Williamson (5) 10 Martin Freeman TV series, based on a Coen brothers film (5) 11 ––– Marsh, crime author who wrote the Roderick Alleyn novels (5) 12 Name of both a road and rail structure linking Dundee to Fife (3,6) 19 Native pigment composed of fine clay and an iron oxide (5) 21 Supervisor to whom Mork reported at the end of each Mork & Mindy episode (5) 23 The 43rd President of the United States (6,1,4) 24 Son to Montague in a play by Shakespeare (5) 25 Derek Jacobi TV series based on two books by Robert Graves (1,8) 27 Leigh –––, Cardiff Blues player born in 1988 (9) 29 ––– Slope, Trollope character played by Alan Rickman in the TV programme The Barchester Chronicles (7) 31 Selina –––, presenter on BBC’s Breakfast Time with Frank Bough (5) 33 Sabre-toothed cat in the animated Ice Age films (5) 34 First name of TV writer De Botton and racing driver Prost (5) 35 Apus apus, a bird that superficially resembles a swallow (5) 37 Stations Of The –––, punk album released in 1979 (5)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS, No 1646
ACROSS: 1 Cheam, 4 Heston, 8 Blithe, 12 Brazil, 13 Maida, 14 Duarte, 15 Eurotunnel, 16 Hiawatha, 17 Meryl, 19 EBITDA, 22 Nadine, 25 Jelly Roll Morton, 28 Gordon, 29 Errors, 30 Enola, 32 Gulliver, 35 Cole Porter, 37 Lister, 38 Sonic, 39 Target, 40 Ampere, 41 Snoopy, 42 Elias.
DOWN: 2 Hercules, 3 Anzio, 5 Edmund Burke, 6 Trial, 7 Neath, 8 Bad Manners, 9 Ivana, 10 Hitchens, 11 Cloud, 18 Yield, 20 Tyler, 21 Admiral’s Cup, 23 Drown, 24 Blank verse, 26 Botulism, 27 Aloe Vera, 31 Spitz, 33 Lethe, 34 Roses, 35 Congo, 36 Rural.