Prize crossword

for 4 winners

Across

5 English political caricaturist – George III was a frequent target of his (7) 7 The last of these began 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago (approx) (3,4) 10 Romanian-born British intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive (1941–45), who recruited agents in occupied France (4,6) 11 Famous university, named after its British benefactor, Elihu, a merchant and East India Company official (4) 12 He renounced his hereditary peerages on becoming prime minister in 1963 (4,4) 14 One spelling for an ancient Egyptian god (a fusion of two gods) (6) 15 The site of a creek in South Dakota where between 150 and 300 Lakota people were massacred in December 1890 (7,4) 19 The other name for a member of the chief ethnic group of Hungary (6) 20 Ancient region of northern Greece taken by the Turks in the late 14th century and ceded back in 1881 (8) 22 Sumerian god of water also known as Ea (4) 23 ____ I, is reputed to be the Egyptian pharaoh who founded the tomb workers’ village at Deir el-Medina (9) 25 One of a number of religious military expeditions organised by western Christians from the late 11th century (7) 26 Archbishop of Canterbury burnt at the stake after Mary I’s accession to the throne (7)

Down 1 For a time, this island was an independent principality with Napoleon I as its ruler (4) 2 Leader of the revolution that toppled rightwing dictator Batista in 1959 (6) 3 Pilot of the US U-2 spy plane shot down in the Soviet Union in 1960 (4,6) 4 Nickname of the police force named after its creator, the then home secretary, later PM (7)

Who is this overlooked Austrian-born physicist? (9 down) What type of ship is the Cutty Sark? (18 down)

6 Cromwell’s son-in-law, Henry ____, a general in the Civil War (6) 8 A member of the people who fled serfdom in Poland, etc, later fighting for Russia in return for land (7) 9 Austrian-born physicist: the 1944 Nobel Prize awarded to Otto Hahn ignored her contribution to the research into nuclear fission (4,7) 13 ____ I, tyrant ruler of Syracuse, 405–367 BC (9) 16 For many years after 1066, kings of England were often also dukes of ____ (8) 17 Christiaan ____, the South African surgeon who performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant (7) 18 The Cutty Sark, for example (7) 21 Chief architect of West Germany’s post-Second World War recovery; he became chancellor in 1963 (6) 24 This great Chinese dynasty that ruled from the 7th to 10th centuries (4) Theh BatB ttlet of Britain: A Visual History

By Anthony Richards

In the summer of 1940, RAF pilots clashed with German attackers in the skies above Britain, determined to prevent an invasion. This book combines compelling images and firsthand accounts from the Imperial War Museums’ archives to offer a gripping retelling of a defining episode of the Second World War.

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Solution to our August 2022 crossword

Across 1 Biko 3 Sabratha 8 Archduke 9 Atkins 10 Coco Chanel 11 RNIB 12 Gdansk 14 Hengist 16 Sicily 18 Chatham 22 Cornwallis 25 Napier 26 Martello 27 Whithorn 28 Shaw

Down 1 Burroughs 2 Kahlo 3 Stein 4 Braille 5 Arkwright 6/20 Hanoi Jane 13 Alchemist 15 Stanislaw 17 Locarno 19/7 Howard Hughes 21 Awash 23 Roman 24 Leech

Two winners of A Woman’s World A Gilbert, Tyne and Wear; C Bowker, Warwickshire

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