THE PRIZE CROSSWORD
Across
1 A building with an exposed wooden framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in
Tudor architecture (4-8)
8 The chief port of Poland,
on the Baltic (6)
11 The Strait of --- links the South Pacific with the
South Atlantic (8)
12 Pasta in the form of
short tubes (5)
13 A highly saturated greenblue that forms, with magenta and yellow, a set of primary colours (4)
14 --- field, a flooded piece of land used for growing rice (5)
15 A person with whom one has
something in common (7,6) 17 English cricketer known as The Master; the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket (4,5)
19 A river in northern South America, rising in South Venezuela (7)
23 A solid shape with six
plane square faces (4)
24 People who are legally appointed or empowered to act for others (9)
25 The projecting rim or
edge of a hat (4)
26 Laurence ---, 20th-Century English actor of stage and screen (7)
28 Kentucky city known as the Horse Capital of the World, at the heart of the Bluegrass region (9) 31 Tropical South American bird with an erectile crest and a brilliant red or orange plumage in the male (4-2-3-4)
34 Scope or extent (5)
36 Mountain ---, another
name for the puma (4)
37 Former name of the
country of Myanmar (5)
38 Oliver ---, 17th-Century Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (8)
39 A tenant under a contract (6) 40 British vet and writer whose works inspired the TV drama All Creatures Great And Small (5,7)
Down
2 Image representing a player
in an online game (6)
3 Large thrush with a pale grey head, brown wings and back and a blackish tail (9)
4 Not operating or
being used (4)
5 Agile terrestrial marsupials of Australia and New
Guinea (10)
6 --- eye movement, movement of the eyeballs under closed eyelids, occurring while a sleeper is dreaming (5)
7 In the Old Testament, a youth given divine protection when thrown into the lions’ den (6)
8 Narrow and deep mountain valleys, especially in
Scotland or Ireland (5)
9 A public sale of goods
or property (7) 10 A champion thoroughbred American racehorse of the 1930s and ’40s; a symbol of hope during the Great Depression (10)
16 A Kestrel for --- ---, 1968 book by Barry Hines set in Yorkshire, telling the story of Billy Casper (1,5) 18 Edmund ---, Irish-born philosopher and politician who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry (5)
20 To give up tenure
of a job (6)
21 Device used for executions, particularly during the French Revolution (10)
22 Optical instruments in submarines for looking above the surface of the water (10)
25 A person who accepts
bets as an occupation (9) 27 The Danes, Norwegians and Swedes who raided most of North and
West Europe by sea from the 8th to the
11th Centuries (7)
29 Name given to the British government in India before 1947 (3,3)
30 A small restaurant (6)
32 A natural or synthetic filament that may be spun into yarn (5)
33 To build up a new stock
of military weapons (5)
35 --- swan, bird with a pure white plumage and an orange-red bill with a black base (4)