The Sunday Mail - 01.09.2019

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, September 6

(photocopies not accepted). Today’s solution will appear next week and the winner’s

name on Sunday, September 22. SEE BELOW THE GRID for details on how to enter.

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Winner of Prize Crossword No 1917: Mrs P. Rodgers, of Horsham, West Sussex.

Last week’s answer: 21

    Across

    10   Word used in some

countries for a very

serious crime (6)

    11   A former county of South

Wales, formed in 1974

and replaced in 1996 (3,9)

    12   Roman historian

who wrote a monumental

history of Ancient Rome

and its people, Ab Urbe

Condita Libri (4)

    13   Violation or betrayal

of the allegiance that

a person owes their

sovereign or country (7)

    14   Paul – – –, Scottish golfer

who won The Open

Championship in 1999 (6)

    1 5  See    7   Down

    16   The branch of philosophy

that deals with the principles

of being and knowing (11)

    20   Amber – – –, the Conservative

Home Secretary

2016-2018 (4)

    21   Film comedy starring

Dustin Hoffman as a

cross-dressing actor (7)

    22   A light, open, horse-drawn

carriage, especially with

two wheels (6)

    23   The capital of Oyo State

in Nigeria (6)

    25   Perkin – – –, 15th Century

pretender to the English

throne who claimed

to be one of the Princes

in the Tower (7)

    27   A flat, thin slab of fired clay

used with others to cover

a roof, floor or wall (4)

    28   Prehistoric cave

dwellers (11)

    29   Goods transported

by lorry, train, ship

or plane (7)

    32   P. T. – – –, 19th Century

American showman

famous for his circuses (6)

    35   Slang word for the keys

of a piano (7)

    36   A street or yard lined by

buildings converted from

stables into dwellings (4)

    37   A strong, woollen

fabric often used

to make trousers (7,5)

    38   City in North East Pakistan,

location of the University

of the Punjab (6)

    Down

1    One of a set of

consecutive digits

assigned to machines,

tools or books (6,6)

2    Home of the Scottish

Parliament building

in Edinburgh (8)

3    An evergreen shrub

with pink or white

flowers and aromatic,

blue-black berries (6)

4    City Of – – –, 2008 sci-fi

adventure film starring

Saoirse Ronan (5)

5    In Greek myths, a

legendary king of Ithaca (8)

6    A line of English kings,

ruling from the ascent

of Henry II to the death of

Richard III (11)

    7   and 15  Across Lebanese-

British barrister appointed

special envoy on media

freedom by the Foreign

and Commonwealth Office

in 2019 (4,7)

8    – – – Island, Dorset

location of a 1907

camp that led

to the formation of the

Scout movement (8)

9    Mountainous Indonesian

island east of Java (4)

    17   Diacritical mark (ˇ),

placed over certain

letters to modify

their sounds (5)

    18   Stately home near

York, designed in 1699

by Sir John Vanbrugh

and Nicholas

Hawksmoor (6,6)

    19   An inlet of the Irish Sea

between South West

Scotland and North

West England (6,5)

    21   A Latin American dance

characterised by long,

gliding steps and

sudden pauses (5)

    24   Town and district

in East London, location

of a major car factory (8)

    26   The art of using speech

to persuade, influence

or please (8)

    27   Arc de – – –, famous

monument in Paris

which stands at the

Western end of the

Champs-Élysées (8)

    30   Round up and steal

cattle, horses

or sheep (6)

    31   Garlic mayonnaise (5)

    33   In the Old Testament,

a king of Israel and

husband of Jezebel (4)

    34   Dialect or archaic word

for a lake or marsh (4)

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This week’s
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July 14 winner: John Acott, of Ipswich, Suffolk and

August 11 winner: Cynthia Marsh, of Sheffield.

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