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, April 14 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, April 30. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.

Across

1 A word pronounced or spelt in the same way as another but having a different meaning (7)

5 In rugby union, a trophy competed for annually by England and Scotland since 1879 (8,3)

10 City and seaport in Panama, near the

Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal (5)

11 Deviations from direct,

usually shorter, routes (7) 13 Jean-Paul ---, radical journalist and politician in the French Revolution, killed in his bathtub (5)

14 Genus of parasitic wasps whose larvae live in other insect larvae (9)

15 A painting or drawing of inanimate objects, such as fruit or flowers (5,4)

16 The Sun --- Rises,

1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway (4)

17 The largest island

in Canada (6,6)

20 Shots or blows that

reach their target (4)

21 An officer who commanded a Roman unit of foot soldiers (9)

22 A small port and resort in western Scotland, on the Firth of Lorn (4)

26 Road in the City of London; site of the ancient London Stone (6,6) 27 --- Crockett, American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician who died at the

Battle of the Alamo in 1836 (4) 29 Ian ---, Leader of the

Scottish National

Party in the House of Commons 2017-22 (9)

31 Beethoven’s Piano

Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, popularly known as the --- Sonata (9)

33 Historic city in southern

Italy, nicknamed the

‘Florence of the South’ (5)

34 Dennis --- Labour MP for

Bolsover from 1970 to 2019 (7) 35 The eighth letter of the

Greek alphabet (5)

36 Having a brilliant or

splendid appearance (11)

37 A Japanese dish of salted green soya beans boiled in their pods (7)

Down

1 Vietnamese statesman who gave his name to the city formerly known as Saigon (2,3,4)

2 Half-rotten vegetable

matter or peat (5)

3 --- verse, poetry in which meaning is non-existent or absurd, such as that of

Edward Lear (8)

4 --- Bovary, debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert (6)

5 Shrub with small ornamental white or pinkish flowers and red or black berries (11) 6 --- XIV, King of France 1643-1715, known as the Sun King (5)

7 Unaffected by changes in

society or fashion (8)

8 An inlet of St George’s Channel, on the West coast of Wales (8,3)

9 The top of a mine shaft and the buildings situated around it (7)

12 Battle of --- ---, military engagement of the

Second Boer War, fought in January 1900 (5,3)

16 Statistics of the number of persons present at particular events (11)

18 Low-growing plant with clusters of small blue flowers (6-2-3)

19 The --- ---, 1948 Powell and Pressburger film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (3,5)

23 A terrifying or deeply

distressing dream (9)

24 Norman ---, American painter and illustrator famous for his depictions of US culture (8)

25 The capital city of Malta (8) 26 A person who makes or

mends shoes (7)

28 James ---, founding father and fifth president of the United States (6)

30 In golf, a shot from

the tee (5)

32 --- Thunberg, Swedish

climate activist (5)