The Prize Crossword: November 2014

Across
6 Marcel ___ (1872-1950), French sociologist and anthropologist (5)
7 Book of ___, medieval Welsh legal text (8)
10 Father of Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (7)
11 Richard ___ (1910-2001), Zürich-born architect (7)
12 Virulent disease known as the ‘speckled monster’ (8)
13 John ___ (1651-1716), English lawyer, politician and member of the Kit-Cat Club (6)
15 The Gulag ___, work of 1973-75 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (11)
20 Card game originating in 15th-century France (6)
22 Queen of the Iceni, d. AD 60 (8)
25 Title held by a prince of the Holy Roman Empire (7)
26 ‘My mission is to pacify ___’ – W.E. Gladstone, 1868 (7)
27 Sir Max ___ (1872-1956), English caricaturist, writer, dandy and wit (8)
28 In Greek myth, an avaricious king of Phrygia (5)

Down
1 Akira ___ (1910-98), Japanese film-maker (8)
2 ‘___ shall be a proverb and a byword among all people’ – I Kings 9:7 (6)
3 Modern name of the Greek city founded by Octavian in 31 BC (9)
4 Günter ___ (b.1927), German novelist, poet and playwright (5)
5 Sir Richard ___ (1672-1729), politician and co-founder of the Tatler and the Spectator (6)
6 Czeslaw ___ (1911-2004), winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature (6)
8 Anna ___ (1851-1914), Russian pianist and teacher of Prokofiev (7)
9 Secret police of the former German Democratic Republic (5)
14 Spanish term for the politics and ideology of Juan Perón (9)
16 City known to the Romans as Deva (7)
17 ‘He hath left you all his walks, his private arbours, and new-planted ___’ – Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 (8)
18 Town of West Flanders, besieged by the English in 1383 (5)
19 Sir Neville ___ (1888-1975), music critic and cricket writer (6)
21 Battle of ___, 1759 engagement at which Major General James Wolfe was killed (6)
23 ‘All books are either ___ or swords’ – Amy Lowell, 1914 (6)
24 Matthew ___ (1664-1721), English poet and diplomat (5)

The winner of this month’s prize crossword will receive a selection of recent history books.

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The competition closes on October 31st, 2014.