COMPLETE THE CROSSWORD ANDWIN A CROSS PEN
Across 1 English novelist noted for books
including The Story of the Treasure Seekers, TheWouldbegoods, Five Children and It, The Railway Children and The Enchanted Castle (6) 5 The second-brightest star in the constellation represented by a lion slain by Hercules as one of his 12 labours (8)
9 −−−−− and anchor; gambling game traditionally played by sailors with three dice marked with symbols instead of pips (5)
13 Toxophilite’s portable case for holding arrows (6)
14 Any of various species of diurnal bird of prey in the Accipitridae family, genus Circus (7)
15 Nurse who was executed by the Germans during the FirstWorldWar for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium (6)
16 Watercourse rising in mountainous regions of the Czech Republic through the Lusatian Neisse to the Baltic Sea, which is the second-longest river in Poland (4)
17 −−−− Woodhouse; character depicted by actresses including Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale and Romola Garai (4)
18 Items created by Peter Carl Fabergé such as the ones forming part of the Queen’s Royal Collection titled Basket of Wild Flowers, Colonnade, Mosaic and Twelve Panel (4)
19 Director whose films include You Must Be Joking!, Hannibal Brooks and an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s
Appointment with Death (6)
21 Collective noun for a family of lions, lionesses and cubs (5)
22 Lady Capulet’s nephew in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (6)
23 In mathematics, the fractional part of a common logarithm; or, in computing, the significant digits of a floating-point number (8)
26 Food with regional varieties such as Caerphilly, Fontina, Halloumi, Manchego and Paneer (6)
28 Cousin of Rudyard Kipling who served as prime minister three times during the 1920s and 1930s (7)
4 Painter depicted by actor Timothy Spall in a recent film (6) 5 The former name for Benin (7) 6 Edible seaweed used in the preparation of sushi (4) 7 The capital of Barbados (10) 8 Ancient Roman household gods (5) 10 Any one of seven birds resident in the Tower of London which, according to legend, must never leave or the kingdom will fall (5)
11 Actress who played the part of Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films (7)
12 Novelist whose books include The Comfort of Strangers, Black Dogs, Atonement and On Chesil Beach (6) 20 The reverse of a coin (5) 23 Substance such as emery, feldspar, graphite or hornblende (7)
24 An −−−−− Abroad; travel series created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (5) 25 Home of the priestess Hero (6) 27 Group of flags as a signal (5) 28 Cardiac surgeon who led the team that performed the first human-tohuman heart transplant (7) 29 The 14th president of the US (6) 30 Word linking anglaise, brûlée, caramel, de cassis and fraÎche (5)
32 Series of books for children by J P Martin, illustrated by Quentin Blake (5) 34 Kaiser Chiefs’ debut album (10) 35 Münchausen syndrome by −−−−−; fabrication of an illness for attention (5) 39 Cells essential in blood clotting (9) 41 Plant in the buttercup family (7) 42 The −−−−−− of Adventure; 1944 children’s book by Enid Blyton (6) 44 Patterned paper found on the inside covers of old books (7) 46 Sport performed in a velodrome (7) 47 Of a building, protected from demolition or alterations (6) 49 SI unit of magnetic flux density (5) 50 Creator of the Haywain triptych (5) 53 Basic monetary unit of Turkey (4) 29 −−−−−− Caspian; the second novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books by C S Lewis (6) 31 Also anatomically termed the hypophysis, name of a major endocrine gland near the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, important in regulating growth (9)
33 English chemist who discovered oxygen; or a novelist and dramatist who wrote The Good Companions and An Inspector Calls (9)
36 Shares of a company; or flowering plants in the genus Matthiola (6)
37 Red −−−−−−−; species of migratory butterfly, Vanessa atalanta (7) 38 Atomic number 29, symbol Cu (6) 40 Type of vertebrate in a group that includes guinea fowl, grouse, partridges, quails and pheasants (4,4)
43 In the linguistical study of morphology, a basic unit of vocabulary (6)
45 Fondanttype of cake −−−−−; covered small in cube-shapedicing, typically pastel-coloured (5) 48 A pulse used to make dhal (6) 50 −−−− Don’t Cry; The Cure single (4) 51 Former municipality in Norway (4) 52 −−−− way; bet divided into two wagers, one for a win and one for a place (4)
54 Sauce used to flavour Chinese-style ribs or Peking duck (6)
55 −−−−−−− constable; in the UK, a volunteer police officer supporting the local constabulary (7)
56 One of the 50 mythological Nereids, mother of Achilles (6) 57 Scottish chemist and physicist remembered for his work in cryogenics and the invention of a vacuum flask (5)
58 Archipelago with the chief town or capital Lerwick (8)
59 A −−−−−− for Life; 1996 single byWelsh band Manic Street Preachers (6) Down 2 Country with the capital Quito (7) 3 Economist associated with the foundation of the UK welfare state (9)