THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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1 Tall, four-sided pillar with a pyramidion on the top, such as the Washington Monument (7) 5 Claude –––, actor who played Captain Renault in Casablanca (5) 8 Diana –––, Canadian jazz singer and pianist who married Elvis Costello in 2006 (5) 13 German archipelago of two islands in the North Sea (10) 14 Townes –––, Texan singersongwriter who recorded the albums For The Sake Of The Song and Flyin’ Shoes (3,5) 15 and 18 Russian leader between Khrushchev and Andropov (6,8) 16 ––– United, Football League First Division champions in 1992, the year before it became the Premier League (5) 17 West Midlands town, birthplace of comedians Lenny Henry and Norman Pace (6) 18 See 15 20 Michael –––, dramatist whose plays include Noises Off and Copenhagen (5) 21 ––– Brearly, former landlord of the Woolpack in Emmerdale, played by Ronald Magill (4) 23 Jane Austen novel in which Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are major characters (5,3,11) 27 Song by the rapper Eminem in which Dido’s song Thank You is sampled (4) 28 Agent played by Patrick Macnee in The Avengers and The New Avengers (5) 29 Biblical vessel constructed by the son of Lamech (5,3) 31 Fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat (6) 33 Jack –––, leader of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt along with Wat Tyler and John Ball (5) 35 Anatoly –––, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion 1975-85 (6) 37 North and South –––, states of the USA named after King Charles I (8) 38 The official language of Brazil (10) 39 Large, glossy black species of crow, Corvus corax (5) 40 Jean –––, French author who wrote Notre Dame Des Fleurs (5) 41 Dennis the Menace’s dog in the children’s comic The Beano (7)
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2 Diacritical mark shaped like the bottom half of a circle and indicating a short vowel (5) 3 German mathematician and philosopher who developed calculus independently of Newton (7) 4 National park occupying 823 square miles in North Wales (9) 6 ––– Agassi, former World No1 tennis player now married to Steffi Graf (5) 7 US special operations force active on Sea, Air and Land (4,5) 9 Children’s author who also wrote the screenplay for the Bond movie You Only Live Twice (5,4) 10 David –––, writer whose books include Ginger You’re Barmy and Changing Places (5) 11 Ivan –––, Russian scientist renowned for his contribution to classical conditioning (6) 12 The ––– Line, BBC drama about a shipping line first broadcast during the 1970s (6) 19 ––– Butler, character played by Clark Gable in the movie version of Gone With The Wind (5) 20 Sigmund –––, Austrian neurologist known as the father of psychoanalysis (5) 22 Tarka The –––, a Henry Williams novel first published in 1927 (5) 24 ––– Sling, gin-based cocktail flavoured with cherry brandy (9) 25 ––– Nine, TV sci-fi show that was a Star Trek spin-off (4,5) 26 Tony –––, former Radio 1 DJ who won the reality show I’m A Celebrity in 2002 (9) 28 Central European country whose capital is Belgrade (6) 29 City in New Jersey, home to one of the busiest airports in the USA (6) 30 Johann ––– II, composer of The Blue Danube and Tales From The Vienna Woods (7) 32 Japanese city, centre of the rice trade historically (5) 34 Unit of currency in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (5) 36 ––– Clark, English fashion designer of the swinging Sixties (5)