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9 Pen name of the author of the George Smiley novels including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable

Schoolboy and The Secret Pilgrim (2,5) 10 Shallow type of glass for desserts; or a type of car (5) 11 County in which Sir Francis Drake, Sir-Walter Raleigh, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dame Agatha Christie and Chris Martin were born (5) 13 ____ Woodhouse; Jane Austen’s character portrayed on screen by actresses including Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale and Romola Garai (4) 14 Flowering plant related to basil, lavender, oregano, rosemary and sage with a scent particularly attractive to felines (7) 15 Corrosion-resistant metallic element, atomic number 22, originally discovered in Cornwall in 1791 by Reverend William Gregor (8) 16 Units of speed used in navigation and meteorology equal to one nautical mile per hour (5) 17 Regional name for the dish also known as French toast (4,5) 20 Roman goddess of love with the Greek equivalent Aphrodite, originally a spirit or patron of kitchen gardens (5) 23 1818 poem by John Keats based on the myth of the shepherd of the same name loved by the moon goddess Selene (8) 25 Collection of honeybee hives (6) 26 Small commune in the Veneto region, Italy (5) 29 Unbleached natural colour, darker than beige, linen and khaki (4) 31 Fleetwood Mac vocalist who has also achieved success as a solo artist (5)

33 Teenage _____; sitcom created by and starring Adrian Edmondson with the opening theme of the same name by The Undertones (5) 34 Birds of prey known collectively as a parliament (4) 35 Constellation bordered by Antlia, Carina, Centaurus, Puppis and Pyxis, originally part of Argo Navis (4)

36 Comedian and actor who starred in films including The Big Job and Ooh...

You Are Awful and who was the voice of the character Jeremy Hillary Boob in Yellow Submarine (5) 38 Textile used to make pointe shoes (5) 39 The Hundred- ____-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and

Disappeared; debut novel by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson (4) 40 Decoy vessel with concealed guns used during the First World War to destroy German submarines (1-4) 41 First name of the couturier daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney (6) 42 A rally of Scouts or Guides (8) 44 Novelist who was awarded a national literary prize in for her collection

The Lagoon and Other Stories (5) 46 The capital of Cambodia (5,4) 47 _____: The Story of a Simple Soul; 1905 novel by HG-Wells (5) 51 Variety of Double Gloucester cheese flavoured with a blend of chives and spring onions (8) 54 Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin who was voted one of the 100 great British heroes in a poll in 2002 (7)

56 Little ____ Rabbit; series of books for children by Alison Uttley (4) 57 In linear algebra, the sum of the elements in the main diagonal of a square matrix (5) 58 _____ hyacinth; easy-to-cultivate spring-flowering perennial bulb plant, genus Muscari (5) 59 River which rises in the Pyrenees and flows through Toulouse and Bordeaux to the Dordogne at the Gironde estuary (7)

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1 British journalist who documented his five years as a hostage in Beirut in

Some Other Rainbow (8) 2 Tommy _____; name of the badger in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Mr Tod (5) 3 Plane figure with seven sides (8) 4 Palm in the genus Euterpe with berries used in juices and smoothies (4) 5 Dairy by-product used to make soda bread and scones (10) 6 In the UK, one of the home counties (4) 7 Lady _____ Crawley; Downton Abbey character played by Laura Carmichael (5) 8 1st Earl of ____; title of 55 Down (4) 9 U2 single on the album Zooropa (5) 12 Phosphate-rich island country with no official capital (5) 18 Irish poet who was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre (5) 19 Fruit resembling a small peach (7) 21 Scientific study of organisms in relation to their environment (7) 22 Actor who starred in The English

Patient, The Reader and Skyfall (7) 24 Central region of an atom (7)

27 The _______; 2013 Peter Moffat drama (7) 28 Japanese word meaning “harbour wave” (7) 30 Element named after a planet (7) 32 The fastest land animal (7) 37 Motor-racing signal used to indicate hazardous conditions ahead (6,4) 38 Item collected by philatelist (5) 42 Collection of children’s stories by Anthony Buckeridge that were adapted for radio and read by Stephen Fry (8) 43 Revolutionary leader who paved the way for Chilean independence with José de San Martín following the defeat of Spanish forces in 1817 (1’7) 45 Local name for a tidal race in Orkney and Shetland (5) 48 _____ by Piece; Katie Melua album (5) 49 Master of impressionism who lived in Giverny for much of his life (5) 50 Historical drama directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Rachel-Weisz (5) 52 Water bird depicted in Camille Saint-Saëns’s Le cygne (4)

53 Reservoir ____; Tarantino movie (4) 55 UK prime minister 1955–57 (4)