The Prize Crossword: March

Across
1 John ___ (1706-75), printer, typefounder and atheist (11)
7 In the Old Testament, son of Haran and nephew of Abraham (3)
9 Loch ___, legendary home of ‘water horses’ or Each Uisbe (5)
10 Charles ___ (1814-84), author of novels including It Is Never Too Late To Mend (1856) (5)
11 Osman ___ (1886-1967), Nizamof Hyderabad (3)
12 Term coined in James Murray’s New English Dictionary (1884-1928)
for a word used only on one occasion or for a short time (5-4)
13 French port city, seat of the Naval Academy since 1830 (5)
14 Hawthorne’s Letter or Orczy’s Pimpernel (7)
16 Number of Noble Truths in Buddhism(4)
19 ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a ___’ – Matthew, 12:39 (4)
21 Historic kingdom of central Europe (7)
24 Little Orphan ___, cartoon strip created by Harold Gray (1894-1968) (5)
25 South African town, seat of the government of the Orange Free State
during the Boer War (9)
27 Pol ___, name adopted by Khmer leader Saloth Sar (1925-98) (3)
28 ___ Era, name given in music to the historical period also known as
the Common Practice Period (5)
29 Nellie ___ (1861-1931), Australian soprano (5)
30 Joseph___ (d. 1852), notorious London fraudster (3)
31 Georg von ___ (1772-1826), German instrument-maker (11)

Down

1 Carolus Linnaeus or Gregor Mendel, for example (8)
2 H.E. ___ (1797-1871), soldier and piano-builder (8)
3 Bird featured on the flags of Moldova, Kazakhstan and (with two
heads) Albania (5)
4 Birth-state of US presidents Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur (7)
5 Welsh name for a district of Cardiff, home to the Cathedral Church of St
Peter and St Paul (7)
6 ‘In some grassy lane unbosom all from ___ to midnight’ – Robert
Browning, Paracelsus (4-5)
7 Among the South African Boers, an encampment or defensive position (6)
8 Battle of the ___, conflict of 1351 near Ploërmel, Brittany (6)
15 English city, site of an abbey founded in 1143 (9)
17 Native American leader of the Wanapum tribe, d. 1895 (8)
18 Abraham ___ (1776-1843), English engraver (8)
20 People of the upper Ubangi River in central Africa (7)
21 Saint, seventh-century abbot of Iken, Suffolk (7)
22 André ___ (1660-1744), French composer (6)
23 Richard of ___, celebrated 12th century litigant (6)
26 ‘Blind’ ___ Jefferson (1893-1929), bluesman (5)

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

The King James Bible: Readings and Documentaries from Radio 4

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 March 31st.