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, July 11 (photocopies not accepted).

ACROSS 1 Poet who wrote A Shropshire Lad (1,1,7) 6 Scottish philosopher and economist, author of The Wealth Of Nations (4,5) 11 Christian preacher who was the writer of The Pilgrim’s Progress (6) 12 Derek –––, English comic actor in the sitcom All Gas And Gaiters (5) 14 La Primavera from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (6) 15 Any crustacean such as a woodlouse or fish louse with seven pairs of equal legs (6) 16 Nottinghamshire town, the Gateway to the Dukeries (7) 17 Imperial unit of length equal to 25.4 millimetres (4) 18 Irish writer whose middle names were Fingal O’Flahertie Wills (5,5) 22 Disney animated feature film released in 1953 (5,3) 24 Unit of pressure equal to one newton per square metre (6) 26 Spiced Asian rice dish served with meat or fish (5) 27 Dynamo –––, Russian football club, founded in April 1923 (6) 28 Anthony –––, creator of the TV series Foyle’s War and the Alex Rider books (8) 29 Political philosopher who wrote Utopia (6,4) 31 Surname of Richard Ayoade’s character in The IT Crowd and Janel Moloney’s in The West Wing (4) 33 Iroquois people formerly living in upper New York State (7) 36 Unit of time of which there are 604,800 in a week (6) 38 A person from Sana’a, for instance (6) 39 ––– –––, group whose albums include Seven and the Ragged Tiger (5) 40 Fashion photographer who cofounded the magazine Dazed & Confused (6) 41 Ira Levin play filmed in 1982 with Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine (9) 42 North Korea’s capital city (9)

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2 Richard Burton film of 1977 also starring Jenny Agutter (5)

3 ––– Dukakis, Oscar-winning actress in the Cher movie Moonstruck (7)

4 Ecclesiastical council convened to decide an issue of doctrine (5)

5 Richard Nixon’s Vice President from 1969-73 (5)

7 The –––, group that had hits with Hello I Love You and People Are Strange (5) 8 Historical area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system considered to be the cradle of civilization (11) 9 Carnival day whose names literally means Fat Tuesday (5,4) 10 Simple garment from the body reaching from the shoulders to the legs (5) 13 Small defensive fort built in Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars (8,5) 19 Joe –––, actor who played Henry Goldblume in Hill Street Blues (5) 20 Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766-68 (7,4) 21 City in western Bolivia (2,3) 22 Formerly the ninth planet of the solar system, now reclassified a dwarf planet (5) 23 Michael Haneke film starring Emmanuelle Riva (5) 25 Elevated lookout platform near the top of a ship’s mast (5-4) 30 Affected working-class speech used by Jamie Oliver, Guy Ritchie and others (7) 32 Wild chrysanthemum with a yellow disc and white rays (5) 34 Constellation commonly represented as a water snake(5) 35 ––– Lyle, Scottish golfer, winner of the 1985 Open (5) 36 Mythological Greek woman who lured sailors on to rocks (5) 37 Nick –––, celebrity chef, once a regular on Ready Steady Cook (5)