The Prize Crossword: February

Across

1 Stanislaw __ (b.1897), mathematician, killed by the Gestapo in 1942 (4)
3 Guy de ___ (1850-93), French writer, author of the novel Pierre et Jean (1888) (10)
10 Simon ___ (d.1575), English physician, ‘a man utterley unlearned’ (7)
11 British town, home to the Up-Helly-Aa festival (7)
12 David ___ (1809-79), Bavarian-born reformist rabbi (7)
13 Indian kingdom (now state) established in 1642 (6)
15 1919 memoir by Sir Ernest Shackleton (5)
16 ‘Wandering bears may come with buns/And steal the bags to
hold ___’ – Christopher Isherwood, ‘The Common Cormorant’ (3,6)
18 In Greek legend, the brother of Menelaus (9)
21 Frederick ___ (1732-92), 2nd Earl of Guilford and prime minister (5)
23 Janusz ___ (b.1927), historian, author of A State Without Stakes
(1967) (6)
25 Audrey ___ (1929-93), adopted name of the Belgium-born star of My Fair Lady (1964) (7)
27 ‘The ___’, song traditionally sung at national conferences of
the British Labour Party (3,4)
28 Norse poem (c.1000), known as ‘Sibyl’s Prophecy’ (7)
29 ‘All ___ is mischief’ – Jeremy Bentham (1789) (10)
30 French city, associated with medieval Catharism (4)

Down

1 US military decoration, the third highest military award designated solely for heroism in combat (6,4)
2 Babylonian astronomer and mathematician (7)
4 Edward ___ (1892-1962), writer; married poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
in 1913 (9)
5 1ac. and 23ac, perhaps – or 15ac. and 21ac? (5)
6 A Gdansk shipyard worker in 1980, or a Calton weaver in 1787, say (7)
7 Spiritual belief system, common among tribal peoples (7)
8 Japanese city noted for its production of pottery (4)
9 God of the ancient Middle East to whom Moses forbade the Jews to
sacrifice their children (Leviticus 18:21) (6)
14 City of South Ossetia, Georgia; scene of separatist violence in the
early 1990s (10)
17 Dutch municipality, chartered 1232 (9)
19 Hero of a popular story from The Thousand And One Nights (7)
20 Athenian statesman of the fourth century BC (7)
21 Italian football club, founded 1926 (6)
22 Gérard ___, 16th-century French mystic (7)
24 Gesta ___, work of English history by Gervase of Canterbury
(d.1210) (5)
26 Talkative raven in Dickens’ novel Barnaby Rudge (1841) (4)

The winner of this month's prize crossword, sponsored by AudioGo, the home of BBC audiobooks, will receive:

A Brief History of Mathematics, written and presented by Marcus du Sautoy

To enter, print out this page, complete the crossword and send it to:

Crossword, History Today, 25 Bedford Avenue, London WC1B 3AT.

The competition closes February 29th.