The Prize Crossword: November

CLUES

Across
1 A modern-day empire builder? (14)
10 French city, seized by Louis XIV in 1667 and by the Duke of
Marlborough in 1708 (5)
11 Of troops, drawn up with successive divisions parallel to one another, but with no two on the same alignment (2,7)
12 Edward ___ (d.1594), English physician (7)
13 4, 9, 16 and 25, perhaps? (7)
14 Acronym for the first programmable general purpose electronic digital computer (5)
16 Beijing entry way; the ‘gate of heavenly peace’ (9)
19 US Civil War slang for a Confederate soldier (6,3)
20 Stefan ___ (1308-55), medieval ruler of Serbia (5)
22 Papal ambassadors (7)
25 Edward Southwell ___ (1907-82), last peer to be tried by the
House of Lords (7)
27 Alessandro ___ (1463-1512), Italian philosopher and physician (9)
28 Juan ___ (b.1474), Catholic saint, born Cuauhtlatoatzin (5)
29 See 6 Down

Down
2 Consort of Alfred, king of the West Saxons (9)
3 1968 work by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (5)
4 English city, birthplace of historian Sir John Harold Plumb (1911-2001) (9)
5 King of Denmark, assassinated in 1134 (5)
6/29 ‘It means the end of ___’ - Hugh Gaitskell, on a European federation, 1962 (1,8,5,2,7)
7 The ___, nickname of lexicographer Samuel Johnson (5)
8 Thomas ___ (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 (7)
9 Sir Hans ___ (1660-1753), Irishborn collector (6)
15 Hymns such as the Magnificat and the Te Deum (9)
17 Luigi ___ (1871-1941), Italian journalist and anti-Fascist, editor of the Corriere della sera (9)
18 Athos, Porthos or Aramis, perhaps? (9)
19 Edict of ___, 1562 French ruling that granted new freedoms to Calvinists (7)
21 Sir Amos ___ (1860-1947), cotton manufacturer (6)
23 Language of the Aztecs (5)
24 George ___ (1807-73), founder of the London Journal (5)
26 Anwar al-___ (1918-81), Egyptian president and Nobel Prize winner (5)

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

Alastair Cooke's America, read by Peter Marinker
12CDs Running time: 14hr 1min

Print out this page, complete the crossword and send it to:

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

The competition closes November 30th.