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, August 22 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name will be published on Sunday, September 7.
ACROSS
1 Mark –––, US swimmer born in 1950, winner of seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics (5) 4 ––– Estevez, actor in St Elmo’s Fire and Young Guns (6) 8 Syria’s largest city (6) 12 Oath invoking the god Jupiter (2,4) 13 Mufasa’s son in The Lion King (5) 14 ––– Studios, company that produced Passport To Pimlico and The Ladykillers (6) 15 Area of Ireland, part of the province of Connacht (6,4) 16 The most northerly of the Channel Islands (8) 17 Enemy Of The –––, a Will Smith movie also starring Gene Hackman (5) 19 Half a Jeroboam of champagne (6) 22 Spice-bearing East Indian evergreen tree, Myristica fragrans (6) 25 Valery –––, French President from 1974-81 (7,8) 28 Ruth –––, TV personality and runner-up in the 2006 series of The Apprentice (6) 29 ––– Place, US TV series based on a Grace Metalious novel (6) 30 Surname of the sisters who had a hit with I’m In The Mood For Dancing (5) 32 Maximum security prison in the state of New York (4,4) 35 Italian cheese made from the milk of Italian buffalo (10) 37 Peter –––, actor who played the Doctor Who companion Steven Taylor (6) 38 Freshwater musteline mammal of the subfamily Lutrinae (5) 39 ––– Jefferson, the third President of the United States (6) 40 Sean Connery film of 1964 (6) 41 Mia –––, former wife of Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn (6) 42 Country whose capital city is Santiago (5)
DOWN
2 ––– Argyle, Devon football club nicknamed The Pilgrims (8) 3 Ayrshire town whose golf course is one of the hosts of the Open Golf Championship (5) 5 Misspeaking character in Sheridan’s play The Rivals (3,8) 6 Trinidadian dance competition in which dancers progress under a horizontal pole (5) 7 Nebraska’s largest city (5) 8 Person such as Graeme Garden, Annie Lennox or Paul Lawrie, for instance (10) 9 Leonhard –––, Swiss mathematician and physicist born in 1707 and died 1783 (5) 10 Glasses supported on the bridge of the nose without earpieces (5-3) 11 East African country in which the port of Mombasa is located (5) 18 The ––– From Another World, sci-fi film remade in 1982 (5) 20 Enid Blyton character whose friends include Big-Ears and Mr Plod (5) 21 The –––, swashbuckling movie starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones (4,2,5) 23 The letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet (5) 24 Red Hot Chilli Peppers single, also the title of singer Anthony Kiedis’s autobiography (4,6) 26 Little Boots, the nickname of Gaius, Roman emperor from 37-41 AD (8) 27 Property between In Jail/Just Visiting and Electric Company on the Monopoly board (4,4) 31 ––– Rovers, football team based in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy (5) 33 Area of Glasgow strongly associated with shipbuilding (5) 34 ––– Capes, shot put competitor in three Olympic Games and former World’s Strongest Man (5) 35 ––– Maid, the profession of Lovely Rita in the Beatles song (5) 36 Son of Jared, great-grandfather of Noah in the Bible (5)