The Prize Crossword: August

Across
9 Severe economic slump triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (5,10)
10 Medieval epithet usually applied to a Muslim (7)
12 Lance used by the Macedonians of antiquity (7)
13 ___ Laboratory, department of physics opened in 1874 at the University of Cambridge (9)
14 Afghan town destroyed by Mongols in 1221 (5)
15 Mohamed ___ (b.1933), Egyptian-born London merchant (2-5)
18 ‘Behold the child, by nature’s kindly law/Pleased with a rattle, ___ by a straw’ – Alexander Pope (7)
21 With 19dn, the requirements of the modern citizen, according to Juvenal (5)
23 Journalist such as Ida Tarbell or Lincoln Steffens, for example (9)
25 ‘___ rights is simple nonsense’ – Jeremy Bentham (7)
26 John ___ (d.1643), Venetian-born London merchant (7)
29 Injunction from Hippolochus to Glaucus in the Iliad (6,2,3,4)
 
Down
1 ‘Rock of ___’, hymn written in 1763 by Augustus Montague Toplady (4)
2 Albert the ___, 12th-century Margrave of Brandenburg (4)
3 Joseph Trumbull ___ (1874-1904), American scholar and poet (8)
4 Hiraga ___ (1728-1780), Japanese author, painter and inventor (6)
5 Army slang for a high-ranking officer (5-3)
6 Former name for the Iranian city of Behshahr (6)
7 The ___, satirical poem by James Beattue (1735-1803) (8)
8 ‘The great ___’, derisive or humorous term for the working classes (8)
11 ___ And The Night Visitors, 1951, television opera composed by Gian Carlo Menotti (5)
15 Enver Hoxha or Essad Paşa, say (8)
16 Capital of Sierra Leone since 1961 (8)
17 Richard ___ (1913-65), BBC
broadcaster (8)
19 See 21ac. (8)
20 Ancient Mesopotamian city, north-west of Ur (5)
22 ___ F. Zanuck (1902-79), film producer and Hollywood studio executive (6)
24 Halley’s, Encke’s and Biela’s, perhaps (6)
27 Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe (4)
28 Byname of Russian designer Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) (4)

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

Whitehall: The Street That Shaped a Nation
Colin Brown
12CDs   Running Time: 12hrs 30mins

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The competition closes August 31st, 2012.