The Prize Crossword: June

Across

1 Max ___ (1914-2002), Nobel Prize-winning chemist and biologist (6)
4 Informal title of a critical work by Aristotle (8)
9 David ___ (1867-1946), Edinburgh-born folklorist (5)
10 Carthaginian general, d. 207 bc (9)
11 Country occupying the region formerly known as Mesopotamia (4)
12 Abe ___ (1865-1949), leader of Japan’s Social Mass Party (4)
13 Christ Stopped at ___, 1945 memoir by Carlo Levi (5)
15 Emperor of Japan since 1989 (7)
16 Jeremiah ___, 17th-century cheesemaker and Leveller (4)
19 ‘It is better to be good than to be ___’ – Oscar Wilde, 1891 (4)
20 Language developed by Norwegian linguist Ivar Aasen in 1853 (7)
23 HMS ___, name given to six ships of the Royal Navy 1649-1910 (5)
24 French town on the Gers river, site of the Gothic Cathedral of Sainte-Marie (4)
25 Subject of the 1968 Condon Report (4)
27 Philip Larkin or Bulkeley Bandinel, perhaps (9)
28 Fortress of Tamil Nadu besieged by the Mughals from 1690-98 (5)
29 The science of quantity, associated with philosopher Jeremy Bentham (8)
30 The second book of the Old Testament (6)

Down

1 Thomas ___ (1740-1804), Warrington-born physician and reformer (8)
2 Latin for ‘rare bird’, featured in Juvenal’s Satires (4,4)
3 Chinese unit of weight used historically as a currency (4)
5 ‘Though God cannot alter the past, ___’ – Samuel Butler, 1901 (10,3)
6 The ___ Opera, 1929 musical drama by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (10)
7 Byname of Scottish folk hero Robert Macgregor (d.1734) (3,3)
8 John ___ (1509-64), French-born theologian (6)
10 ‘Man is a ___ creature’ – W.H. Auden, 1963 (7-6)
14 William of ___ (d.1308), byname of justice Sir William Howard (10)
17 ‘Let the Turks now … clear out from the province they have desolated and ___’ – W.E. Gladstone on Bulgaria, 1876 (8)
18 The study of human settlements (8)
21 G.H. ___ (1901-84), public-opinion pollster (6)
22 Thomas ___ (1588-1679), author of Leviathan (1651) (6)
26 AFC ___, football club founded in Amsterdam in 1900 (4)

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

Queen Elizabeth II Her Life In Our Times
Sarah Bradford, read by Phyllida Nash
10CDs Running Time: 10hrs 40 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 June 30th 2012.