THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

WIN £1,500

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, August 25 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, September 10. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter. Across 1 Official residence of the Lord Mayor of London (7,5)

8 One of the dwarfs in Disney’s 1938 film

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (6)

11 Oliver ---, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-58 (8)

12 Small tropical evergreen tree with reddish-brown seed pods, from which chocolate is prepared (5) 13 --- Suk Yeol, president of South Korea who assumed office in 2022 (4) 14 An individual peculiarity

of character (5)

15 An officer responsible for accommodation, food and equipment in a military unit (13)

17 People who observe

without taking part (9)

19 A group of connected pages on the internet containing information on a particular subject (7)

23 A city in Northeast Somerset on the River Avon, famous for its hot springs (4)

24 A set of numbers for expressing the hardness of solids (4,5)

25 An open valley, usually in

an area of low hills (4)

26 Branch of science concerned with measuring the shape and size of the Earth and its features (7) 28 An official in sports such as tennis, who assists the referee or umpire by observing whether a ball has gone out of play (4,5)

31 Christian body founded in 1865 by William and Catherine Booth for religious and philanthropic purposes (9,4)

34 --- Island, beach and amusement park in Brooklyn, New York, at the Southwest end of Long Island (5)

36 Inordinately proud of one’s appearance or achievements (4)

37 See 18 Down

38 and 16 Down Fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8,6)

39 City in Western Saudi

Arabia, the second most holy city of Islam (6)

40 20th-Century American actor who won two consecutive Best Actor Oscars, for Captains Courageous and Boys Town (7,5)

Down

2 City and port in east

Jutland; Denmark’s second-largest city (6)

3 Juan Antonio ---, president of the International Olympic Committee 1980-2001 (9)

4 --- Farrell, England rugby

union captain from 2019 (4)

5 Statesman who was Chancellor of West

Germany 1982-90 and Germany 1990-98 (6,4)

6 An open sore that heals

very slowly (5) 7 --- cake, English pastry with

a filling of dried fruit (6)

8 A person employed to clean

and look after horses (5)

9 The Latin name

of Odysseus (7)

10 An object that is fired from a

gun or other weapon (10)

16 See 38 Across

18 and 37 Across Prime minister of the United Kingdom from October 2022 (5,5)

20 In Greek mythology, the

god of darkness (6)

21 Expresses contempt or

distaste with a grimace (5,1,4) 22 Collection of orchestral movements, published as three suites, by George Frideric Handel (5,5)

25 Informal name for an item of neckwear worn by the clergy in certain churches (3,6)

27 Leonardo --- ---, Italian painter, sculptor and engineer of the High Renaissance (2,5)

29 --- system, a method for determining the winner of a cricket series involving multiple formats of matches (6)

30 Belinda ---, Swiss tennis player who won a gold medal at the 2020 Olympics (6)

32 Nikola ---, Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer (5)

33 The joint connecting the

leg and the foot (5)

35 King ---, Shakespeare tragedy about a pre-Roman king of the Britons (4)