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, December 16 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, January 8. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. Across 1 --- Stakes, horse race for three-year-olds in New
York; the third leg of the US Triple Crown (7)
5 The US Secretary of
State 2001-05 (5,6)
10 --- Inc., technology company founded by Steve Jobs,
Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976 (5)
11 The ---, orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, premiered in 1918 (7)
13 Jacques ---, French composer of works including Divertissement (5)
14 Warwick the ---, epithet of Richard Neville, 16th
Earl of Warwick (9)
15 Jean ---, early supermodel who was the muse of photographer David Bailey (9) 16 --- Hart, BBC children’s TV show presented by Tony Hart, running from 1977-83 (4)
17 The act of making an explosive device or alarm harmless or inoperative (12) 20 One of the main longitudinal structural members of a vessel (4) 21 Fiorello --- ---, the Mayor of New York City 1934-45 (2,7) 22 To cut or harvest a crop (4)
26 --- --- of the Apocalypse, biblical figures representing pestilence, war, famine and death (4,8)
27 A device impressed on a piece of wax, fixed to a letter or document as a mark of authentication (4) 29 Industrial city in Hesse, Central Germany, known as the City of Science (9)
31 English philosopher who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (4,5) 33 A Caribbean dance in which dancers pass, while leaning backwards, under a bar (5) 34 A word that means the same, or nearly the same, as another word (7)
35 Legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally regarded as the author of the Iliad (5)
36 Small soft-bodied crustaceans living in the gill cavities of certain shellfish (6,5)
37 In Indian cookery, fried triangular pastry cases containing spiced vegetables or meat (7) Down
1 Pontoon or any of various
similar card games (9)
2 A leguminous plant which bears large spikes of brightly-coloured flowers and flattened pods (5)
3 A session in a pub or club where members of the public are invited to perform comedy or sing (4,4)
4 The state capital
of Kansas (6)
5 1869 poem by Paul
Verlaine, the inspiration for works by Debussy, Fauré and others (5,2,4)
6 City in West Yorkshire on
the River Aire (5) 7 One of the two conflicts between China and Britain in the 19th Century (5,3)
8 A freshwater fish of Northern South America, capable of generating powerful shocks (8,3)
9 To allow someone to know about or participate in (3,2,2)
12 The second-largest island
in the Mediterranean (8)
16 American female singing group signed by Motown Records in 1961 (3,8)
18 1943 Broadway musical with lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II (6,5) 19 Long strips of short grass between the tees and the greens on golf courses (8) 23 Formally patterned
flower gardens (9)
24 A member of a Native American people of the Western US (8)
25 Short-legged, wire-haired breed of terrier with a white coat (8)
26 Ludwig van Beethoven’s
only opera (7)
28 The shortest and thickest
digits of the hands (6)
30 A kingdom occupying an archipelago of more than 150 volcanic and coral islands in the Southwest Pacific (5)
32 Albert ---, 20th-Century Algerian-born absurdist author and philosopher awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature (5)