THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
WIN £1,500
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, June 9 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, June 25. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.
Across
1 Subatomic particles with a positive electrical charge (7) 5 Nursery rhyme character who met a pie man (6,5) 10 A small boat propelled by oars, sail or motor (5) 11 A virtuoso solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music (7) 13 The suit of cards marked with the black trefoil symbol (5) 14 British-born Hollywood actor who starred in Hitchcock’s Suspicion and Notorious (4,5) 15 A metric unit of distance (9) 16 A department of South West France, named after a tributary of the Garonne (4) 17 Sport which was first featured in the Winter Olympics in 1998 (12) 20 One of a pair of long straps, usually made of leather, used to control a horse (4) 21 A member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the region roughly corresponding to Israel before the Israelite conquest (9) 22 A soft clay mineral, applied to the skin to absorb moisture (4) 26 20th Century Spanish surrealist artist whose painting The Persistence Of Memory features melting watches (8,4) 27 --- Awe, body of fresh water in Scotland, part of the Three Lakes Challenge (4) 29 American actor who was best known for starring in the long-running TV series Columbo (5,4) 31 Song by The Beatles, featured on the 1965 album Help! (9) 33 An ancient region of Western Central Asia Minor, including adjacent Aegean islands (5) 34 An adherent of a postWorld War II far-right political movement (3-4) 35 A former county of South West Wales; now a preserved county (5) 36 A style of direction in the cinema which uses a relatively static camera with subjects in full shot and very little cutting (4,2,5) 37 People who suffer greatly or die for a cause, belief, etc (7)
Down
1 Collapsible item used for wheeling around a small child (9) 2 Any of various willow trees producing tough flexible twigs used in wickerwork (5) 3 See 24 4 An informal gathering, especially of an organised group (6) 5 A mountainous region of the North Czech Republic, formerly part of Czechoslovakia and occupied by Germany during World War II (11) 6 The capital and largest city of Belarus (5) 7 A maple tree with five-lobed leaves, yellow flowers and two-winged fruits (8) 8 Town in the Cynon Valley, 19 miles north west of Cardiff (8,3) 9 A fund of money kept in reserve, savings (4,3) 12 Liquorice ---, sweets originally created by Geo. Bassett & Co in 1899 (8) 16 Devices used for efficient executions, particularly during the French Revolution (11) 18 A type of white cheese with a flaky texture (11)
19 and 32 The Poet Laureate of the UK since May 2009 (5,3,5) 23 A ship-devouring monster or whirlpool in classical mythology (9)
24 and 3 The --- --- ---, comic opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (8,2,6) 25 A bullfighter, especially on horseback (8) 26 A seemingly plausible argument that is actually invalid and misleading (7) 28 A very hard, brittle, bluish-white metal, the densest naturally occurring element (6) 30 The official currency of Denmark (5) 32 See 19