THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

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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, October 29 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, November 14. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.

Across

10 and 27 Down American

tennis player who won the Wimbledon women’s singles title six times in the

1960s and 1970s (6,4,4)

11 Large-eared, insectivorous, flying mammal with a

fleshy growth around the nostrils (9,3)

12 Charitable donations of money or goods to the poor (4)

13 Town in Hampshire, on Portsmouth harbour, site of a naval base since

the 16th Century (7)

14 and 30 Down A region of West Gloucestershire bounded by the rivers

Wye and Severn (6,2,4)

15 Characters in a series of books and a comic strip by writer-illustrator

Tove Jansson (7)

16 20th Century English poet and novelist whose

best-known poem is Not Waving But Drowning (6,5)

20 Christopher –––, English

architect who designed St Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London (4)

21 The –––, the main building of the United States

Congress (7)

22 A vast, treeless zone lying between the ice cap and the timber line of North

America and Eurasia (6)

23 NASA program that

launched a series of manned space flights

between 1968 and 1972 (6) 25 The Mediterranean coastal

region between Cannes in France and La Spezia in

Italy (7)

27 A small military road vehicle

with four-wheel drive (4)

28 A method of growing plants without the use of soil, by using water through which

nutrients are pumped (11) 29 The anhydrous

commercial form of sodium carbonate (4,3) 32 A hand tool for working

wood (6)

35 Caught fire or set fire to (7) 36 A Scottish church (4)

37 Insect that feeds on and nests in pine and other evergreen trees in North America (6,6)

38 A Latin epic poem

written by Virgil, telling the legendary story of a Trojan hero who

became the ancestor of the Romans (6)

Down

1 A list of books or other

material on a subject (12)

2 Harry –––, character in Thomas Hughes’s novel Tom Brown’s

School Days (8)

3 A port in South West Norway, the second-largest city in the country (6)

4 A card game for four in which the two sides try to win the balance

of 13 tricks (5)

5 An apparatus for

maintaining a constant low temperature (8)

6 A dry, hot desert basin in East California and

West Nevada (5,6)

7 The principal cook

in a restaurant (4)

8 The group of outlaws who follow Robin Hood in English folklore (5,3)

9 A raised platform used

by speakers (4)

17 In cricket, a run not scored from the bat,

such as a wide, no-ball or bye (5)

18 A sea channel between North East Australia and South

New Guinea (6,6)

19 Novices who work for a skilled or qualified

person in order to learn a trade or profession (11) 21 A throat condition, usually occurring in children, characterised by a hoarse cough and laboured

breathing (5)

24 Plant of the Delphinium genus, with spikes of blue, pink or white irregular,

spurred flowers (8)

26 A surrounding, adjacent

or nearby area (8)

27 See 10 Across

30 See 14 Across

31 Man of –––, nickname of DC Comics superhero Superman (5)

33 A member of a Native

American people of North East Arizona (4) 34 Stead or place (4)