The Prize Crossword: September

Across

9 Yorkshire anti-royalist conspiracy of 1663 (7,4,4)
10 Subject of James I’s 1604 ‘Counterblaste’ (7)
12 Gerald ___ (1925-95), naturalist, conservationist and author (7)
13 ‘It is in most men’s power to be ___’ – Swift, 1727 (9)
14 Former Spanish coin (5)
15 Pseudonym adopted jointly by playwrights Noël Coward and Esmé Wynne (7)
18 Political police force established in Germany in 1933 (7)
21 Sir George ___ (1517-45), English soldier (5)
23 Luigi ___ (1871-1941), Ancona-born editor of the Corriere della sera (9)
25 ‘Human kind cannot bear very much ___’ – TS Eliot, 1936 (7)
26 London ___, name for UK motorway completed in 1986 (7)
29 An ___, 1925 novel by Theodore Dreiser (8,7)

Down

1 Medieval Muslim state of central Ethiopia (4)
2 ___ Street, former thoroughfare of London associated with minor writers and journalists (4)
3 Eighth-century bishop and saint (8)
4 Leicestershire village, home, with neighbouring Chadwell, to a Norman chapel (6)
5 Rube ___ (1883-1970), US cartoonist (8)
6 ‘I was ___ once too’ – Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (1601) (6)
7 ___ Nativitas, three-part  polyphonic work by Perotín (d.1238) (8)
8 Site of 1617 peace settlement between Russia and Sweden (8)
11 Rocks in Northern Territory, Australia, named after a queen of Württemberg (5)
15 Fast day in the Catholic church (5,3)
16 New England city, settled as Quinnipiac in 1638 (3,5)
17 1664, 1812 or 1916, for example (4,4)
19 Vikram ___ (1919-71), physicist, father of the Indian space programme (8)
20 King of Mercia, d. 655 at the Battle of the Winwaed (5)
22 Mars rover launched by NASA in 2003 (6)
24 Patrick ___ (1777-1861), Irish-born clergyman (6)
27 In Greek myth, a Titan, daughter of Uranus (alternative spelling) (4)
28 Sam ___ (1841-1911), US puzzle-maker (4)

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

The Ration Book Olympics: When London Hosted the Austerity Games
Clare Balding, read by Tommy Godwin
1CD   Running Time: 1hr