Mind games
Time to challenge yourself.
ACROSS
6 1954 novel by the author of That Uncertain Feeling, Take a Girl Like You, One Fat Englishman, The Green Man, and
The Folks That Live on the Hill (5,3) 8 Dark-leafed variety of kale used in Tuscan dishes such as ribollita, minestrone and pizzoccheri (6,4) 12 A series of mountains; a string of islands; or a former measure equal to 100 links or 66 feet (5) 13 Modeller ordered to create death masks of prominent victims during the French Revolution, who later toured Britain with her relics and founded a permanent waxworks exhibition in Baker Street, London (7) 14 Sour_____; dense variety of bread with a crispy crust made from a fermented starter mixture fed over a number of days (5) 15 With an estimated 20,000 species, insects living in structured social colonies forming castes of workers, soldiers, queens and drones (4) 16 ________ Ballroom; Baz Luhrmann film (8) 18 Woman sent to Earth by Zeus with a box/jar of evils in revenge for Prometheus’s theft of fire; a moon of Saturn; or a novel by Jilly Cooper (7) 21 _______ of Love; musical and book by Andrew LloydWebber based on a novel by David Garnett (7) 24 Insoluble protein acting as a glue-like substance during the process of blood clotting (6) 25 Score of one stroke under par at a hole in golf; or another term for a shuttlecock in badminton (6) 28 System encompassing elements of yoga, martial arts andWestern forms of exercise to strengthen the core and improve flexibility and posture (7) 29 White rabbit character created by Dutch artist and children’s author Dick Bruna (5) 30 Island country in the heart of the Mediterranean with the smallest capital in the EU, which is due to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence (5) 35 The capital of 9 Down (5)