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, June 11 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, June 27. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.

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10 A heavily-built burrowing rodent with short legs and coarse fur (6) 11 The size of a person’s waist, chest, hips used when buying clothes (12) 12 Golda – – –, the first female Prime Minister of Israel (4) 13 A North American long-horned grasshopper (7) 14 An actor who feeds lines to a comedian or acts as his foil (6) 15 The Flaminio – – –, taken to Rome from Heliopolis by Augustus to mark the anniversary of the conquest of Egypt (7) 16 Consisting of complementary but differing items, for instance of clothing or furniture (3-3-5) 20 A hairstyle of tight curls in a full, evenly rounded shape around the head (4) 21 Chess pieces shaped like horses’ heads (7) 22 A paste made from sesame seeds, originating in the Middle East (6) 23 The capital and largest city of Mali (6) 25 Venn – – –, a representation of sets of information, showing common elements within the intersections of the circles (7) 27 François – – –, French perfumier and businessman who bought the newspaper Le Figaro in 1922 (4) 28 The capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea (4,7) 29 In the Christian Church, an assistant to a priest in a religious service or procession (7) 32 A handcart, used especially by street vendors (6) 35 A pear-shaped fruit with a leathery green or blackish skin and a large, stony seed (7) 36 A quick or furtive glance (4) 37 The national park which includes England’s highest mountain (4,8) 38 Ornament with a hinged pin and catch, worn fastened to clothing (6) Down 1 Bovid animal of swampy regions of South Asia, with wide, back-curving horns (5,7) 2 An industrial city in North West Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle (8) 3 The money that a player has available for gambling (6) 4 Dodie – – –, English novelist and playwright, author of The Hundred And One Dalmatians (5) 5 Food item named after 18th Century statesman John Montagu (8) 6 Events held to raise money for particular causes (11)

7 Orford – – –, a shingle spit on the Suffolk coast (4) 8 The – – –, monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars (8) 9 – – – beetle, insect, the male of which has large, branched mandibles (4) 17 A single piece of information, fact (5) 18 A district that sends one representative to a legislature (12) 19 The fictional setting of many of J. R. R. Tolkien’s works (6-5) 21 City in Central Japan, on South Honshu, the capital of that country 794-1868 (5) 24 Tubular, thick-walled, muscular blood vessels (8) 26 In classical myths, the food of the gods (8) 27 A publisher’s emblem on a book, or an inscription at the end of a book showing the title, printer and date (8) 30 Bing – – –, American crooner and actor who sang White Christmas in the film Holiday Inn (6) 31 Richard D’Oyly – – –, Victorian-era theatrical impresario and composer (5) 33 In Greek mythology, the son of Telemon, a Greek hero of the Trojan War (4) 34 A sudden, passing and often fanciful idea (4)