THE PRIZE CROSSWORD

WIN €2,000

There’s an amazing €2,000 prize for the first correct solution drawn at random in our general knowledge Prize Crossword. Entries must arrive by Friday, May 10 (photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s name on Sunday, May 26. you must complete the iSpy box to enter. SEE BELOW THE GRiD for details on how to enter – and good luck! Across 1 Old-fashioned living room, especially one kept for receiving visitors (7) 5 The recordings catalogue of a musical artist, group or orchestra (11) 10 The diacritical mark ‘~’, placed over a Spanish ‘n’ when pronounced ‘ny’, as in señor (5) 11 Strong, cold wind that blows in the Western and Central Mediterranean region, particularly in winter (7) 13 Become a member, enlist, register (5) 14 Charles Dickens novel featuring the Gradgrinds, set in North England (4,5) 15 Awards or honours (9) 16 An obstacle in a horse racing steeplechase (4) 17 The 37th President of the United States, the only American president to resign from office (7,5) 20 A cosmetic powder used to darken the area around the eyes (4) 21 Irish dish of potatoes and cabbage or other greens boiled and mashed together (9) 22 A chronic skin disease involving inflammation of the sebaceous glands (4) 26 A radio or television broadcast of current events (4,8) 27 ––– pony, British breed of large and heavy pony found in the hills of North England (4) 29 Large, slender, muscular pinscher dogs, originally from Germany (9) 31 A piece of equipment, tool or utensil (9) 33 A machine tool in which wood or metal is rotated against a cutting tool (5) 34 A secretive or adulterous relationship (7) 35 Town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, on the Firth of Forth (5) 36 Bruce –––, American rock musician whose albums include 1975’s Born To Run (11) 37 A large migratory butterfly with orange-and-black wings (7) Down 1 A long-handled agricultural tool with curved tines for lifting or turning hay or straw (9) 2 A strip of wood, metal or plastic used for measuring and drawing straight lines (5) 3 Work at a regular job done in addition to normal working hours (8) 4 A system of government or a particular administration (6) 5 A tier of seats in a theatre, usually the first gallery above the ground floor (5,6) 6 La –––, the chief opera house in Milan whose season opens on December 7, Saint Ambrose’s Day, Milan’s patron saint’s feast day (5) 7 A white wine from the Rhine valley in Germany (8) 8 Involving two facts or qualities which seem to contradict each other (11) 9 Boris –––, the first President of Russia, 1991-1999 (7) 12 French edible snail, often eaten with a garlic butter sauce (8) 16 English Jacobean dramatist noted for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess Of Malfi (4,7) 18 Norwegian dramatist and poet whose plays included Peer Gynt (6,5) 19 Team sport devised for visually impaired athletes in 1946, originally in an effort to help the rehabilitation of injured WWII veterans (8) 23 Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised a system of speed measurement (5,4) 24 Scottish city on the North Sea, birthplace of singersongwriter Annie Lennox (8) 25 Georg Philipp –––, German Baroque composer often described as the most prolific composer in history (8) 26 Small lumps or swellings in the body (7) 28 A name, especially a place name, derived from the name of a real or mythical person (6) 30 Tool used for digging (5) 32 Leonhard –––, 18th Century Swiss mathematician and physicist (5)