The Prize Crossword: April

Across

1 Fred ___ (1891-1973), heavyweight boxer known as the ‘Sapulpa Plasterer’ (6)
5 Gabriele ___ (1522-97), Archbishop of Bologna (8)
9 ‘It is ___’ – English translation of the Vulgate Consummatum est (John,
19:30) (8)
10 William G. ___ (1863-1941), director-general of US railroads (6)
11 English architect, 1573-1652 (5,5) 12 Hashimoto ___ (1835-1908),
Japanese painter (4)
13 Traditional English dish composed of steeped slices of bread,
sweetened and spiced (5-3)
16 Alas, Hamlet knew him, Horatio (6)
17 ___ of Gaul, medieval chivalric romance (6)
19 Mary ___ (1738-1825), Worcestershire-born poet (8)
21 Jean ___ (1480-1551), ship-owner of Dieppe (4)
22 Charter of liberties granted by King John in 1215 (5,5)
25 Ezra ___ (1727-95), president of Yale College, Connecticut (6)
26 Birth state of Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire and
Montgomery Clift (8)
27 See 24 Down
28 Sicilian town, founded as Hadranon c. 400 BC (6)

Down

2 Inca ___, 15th-century emperor of the Incans (5)
3 English market town, site of a zoological museum founded by the
second Baron Rothschild (1868-1937) (5)
4 Members of an Apachean Native American tribe located mostly in
New Mexico, Utah and Minnesota (7)
5 John ___, character in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend (1865) (7)
6 Robert de ___ (d. 1117), Bishop of Coventry (7)
7 Paris museum, established by Napoleon III (9)
8 ‘He that sleeps feels not the ___’ – Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 1 (9)
14 Essex town, birthplace of naval officer Sir Henry Pelly (b. 1867) (9)
15 Legendary Roman slave, famed for his encounter with a wounded lion (9)
18 Sir George ___ (1878-1965), meteorologistand member of Captain R.F.
Scott’s last Antarctic expedition (7)
19 ‘Old ___’, nickname of US revolutionary army officer Daniel Morgan
(d. 1802) (7)
20 State of Nigeria, established 1976 (7)
23 Paul ‘Red’ ___ (1915-2004), US firefighter (5)
24/27 ‘I don’t mind your being killed, but I object to your being ___’ – Lord Kitchener to the Prince of Wales, 1914

The winner of this month’s prize crossword, sponsored by AudioGo, will receive:

Titanic: Voices From the BBC Archives
2CDs Running Time: 2hrs 30 mins

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 April 30th 2012.