Prize crossword: win designer kitchen set

Your chance to win three unique products from Jennifer Slattery’s range, including an apron, oven gloves and two tea towels, worth £35 and made from 100% Irish Linen

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1 Any of several white wines from the German Rhine (4) 4 and 25. Poet who secretly married Robert Browning in 1846 (9,7)

8. Independent republic in central Africa formerly known as Nyasaland (6)

9 Antony’s wife in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (7)

10. Surname of the French painter whose best-known works include Absinthe Drinker and Bar at the Folies-Bergere (5)

12. A light, brittle kind of biscuit (8)

16. Wading birds with curved bills, worshipped by ancient Egyptians (6)

17. See 28

18 A public slaughterhouse (8)

21. Surname of the Irish writer famous for Finnegan’s Wake, Ulysses, etc. (5)

25. See 4 Across

26. Lady who acts the part of governess in Spain (6) 27. Lookout station on a mast (5,4)

28 and 17. Famous highwayman hanged at York in 1739 (4,6)

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2. City of Nebraska and seat of the Creighton University (5)

3. “How absolute the - is! We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us” (Hamlet, Act V. Scene I) (5) 4 and 19. Novelist who wrote under the name of George Orwell (4,5)

5. The father of John the Baptist (9)

6. In archery, the white mark in the centre of a target (5)

7. Parts of the compound stomach of a ruminant, prepared as food (5)

10. A woman’s loose outer gown in the 17th to 18th centuries (6)

11. The fur of the coypu (6)

13. Village 11 miles from Kettering, where the Royalists were defeated by the Parliamentarians in 1645 (6)

14. Metallic glaze applied to pottery (6)

15. Highly explosive substance prepared by saturating vegetable fibre with nitric and sulphuric acids (9)

19. See 4 Down

20. To shape on a potter’s lathe (5)

22 In Greek mythology, a nymph of the mountains (5) 23. One of a sect of austere philosophers of ancient Athens, such as Diogenes (5)

24. Prepare a book etc. for publication (4)