THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
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, November 30 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, December 16. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. Across
10 To attack an enemy with bombs or bullets from low-flying aircraft (6) 11 20th Century English poet whose verse collections include The Whitsun Weddings (6,6) 12 and 13 Former Manchester United and France international footballer who was voted Premier League Overseas Player of the Decade in 2003 (4,7) 13 See 12 14 A roof of canvas or other material supported by a frame to provide protection from the weather (6) 15 Having or indicating wealth, grand-looking (7) 16 Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer after whom an American electric car manufacturer is named (6,5) 20 A semi-precious variety of agate with different coloured layers (4) 21 A married Italian woman (7) 22 Music And –––, romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore (6) 23 Relating to the whole earth, worldwide (6) 25 In criminal law, to bring a charge or accusation against (7) 27 City in North East France on the River Moselle, annexed to Germany from 1871 to 1918 (4) 28 French-born British illustrator who designed stamps and banknotes during World War II (6,5) 29 A deliberate insult (7) 32 See 1 Down 35 In Greek mythology, a son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, killed by Achilles at Troy (7) 36 A very small amount, jot (4) 37 American actor who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1954 and 1972 (6,6) 38 Originating in a distant foreign country, especially one in the tropics (6)
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1 and 32 Across The – – – – – –- – – –, the national anthem of the United States (4-8,6) 2 US Muslim minister and human rights activist who was assassinated in New York in 1965 (7,1) 3 ––– Blue, Scottish pop band who had a hit with Real Gone Kid in 1988 (6) 4 Sharply-pointed outgrowth on a cactus or thistle (5) 5 The Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989 (8) 6 Cocktails consisting of pineapple juice, coconut and rum (4,7) 7 Blood-sucking insect and chief agent transmitting the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages (4) 8 Magnificence or splendour (8)
9 and 30 20th Century American primatologist famous for her studies of gorilla groups, documented in her 1983 book Gorillas In The Mist (4,6) 17 The Muslim name for God (5) 18 Roy –––, 20th Century American pop artist and sculptor whose paintings include Whaam! (12) 19 The science or occupation of cultivating land and rearing crops and livestock (11) 21 ‘My ––– days’ – Shakespeare’s Cleopatra referring to her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar (5) 24 River originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia (4,4) 26 In the military, subunits of companies, usually divided into three sections (8) 27 Toni –––, American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her collected works (8) 30 See 9 31 The joint between the upper arm and the forearm (5) 33 Captain –––, main protagonist in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick (4) 34 A city in Western Nevada, once noted as a divorce, wedding and gambling centre (4)