PUZZLES

Time to steal a quiet moment and flex your brain with Friday’s puzzle pages

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1 Art gallery and museum in Florence housing masterworks including Botticelli’s Primavera, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Annunciation, Raphael’s Madonna of the Goldfinch and Titian’s Flora (6) 5 Region forming part of the Pennines where Chatsworth House is located and Bakewell tarts are traditionally made; the UK’s first ever national park (4,8) 13 Protective garment worn around the waist of Beatrix Potter’s hedgehog character Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (5) 14 Respiratory organs of fish and some amphibians, which extract dissolved oxygen from water (5) 15 Variety of feldspar, which displays the optical phenomenon adularescence; a gem forming part of René Lalique’s Dragonfly Woman and the name of a diamond in a novel by Wilkie Collins (9) 16 Collective noun for a group of porcupines; or, a sharp projection on the stem of some types of rose (7) 17 Small wave on a fluid surface; a variety of ice cream containing raspberry syrup; or, an unwanted periodic variation of direct current voltage of an electrical power supply (6) 18 Depicted in an opera by Handel and in a painting by Gustave Moreau, the mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus (6) 20 The capital of Zambia (6) 22 Seasoned stock made with aromatics or mirepoix, lemon and bouquet garni, mainly used to poach seafood and fish (5,8) 27 Garment with traditional styles including Aran, Fair Isle and guernsey (6) 29 Child’s expression used to claim rights to use or enjoy something before anyone else; or, undesirable under-eye areas exacerbated by insomnia or excessive drinking (4) 30 Author who wrote the once banned novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and short stories including England, My England, Wintry Peacock and The Primrose Path (8) 34 Italian composer whose opera La Forza del Destino carries the stigma of being cursed by some performers (5) 35 German industrialist who saved 1,200 Jewish people from concentration camps by employing them in his factories (9) 36 The chain of an anchor; a heavy rope used for mooring a ship; or, one-tenth of a nautical mile (5) 37 One of Chile’s founding fathers (1’7) 38 Word repeated twice as part of a catchphrase by puppet fox Basil Brush (4) 39 Texan city on the Rio Grande across the border from Chihuahua, Mexico (2,4) 42 Disputed territory between Morocco and Mauritania rich in phosphate deposits, capital Laayoune (7,6) 45 Dutch graphic artist whose notable works include Relativity, Waterfall and Hand with Reflecting Sphere (6) 49 One of the sports participated in by the

founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin (6) 51 Sudden brain attack with symptoms identified with help of the FAST test (6) 53 Brightest star in constellation Leo; or, the Latin name for the Basilisk (7) 56 French cake traditionally baked in a fluted or scallop-shaped mould (9) 57 A unit of boy or girl scouts; or, a group of baboons collectively (5) 58 General word for a domain or province ruled by a king or queen (5) 59 Motto of the Special Air Service (3,5,4) 60 City that is the capital of one of the founding cantons of Switzerland (6)

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2 Roaring _______; strong winds through which the Brouwer Route passes, used to accelerate yacht speed during round-the-world voyages/races (7) 3 Type of Turkish ceramicware (5) 4 French neoclassical artist who painted The Valpinçon Bather (6) 5 The capital of Sicily (7) 6 Ancient Greek fabulist and slave (5) 7 Current presenter of Question Time (8) 8_ _ _ _ motion; animation technique (4) 9 Nobel laureate, Principia Mathematica author with Alfred North Whitehead (7) 10 Inventor of the electrical telegraph with Sir Charles Wheatstone (5) 11 Whig statesman regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain (7) 12 Author whose novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was adapted into a multi Academy Award-winning film (5) 19 Novelist who wrote Trilby (2,7) 21 Author of Gunga Din and If– (7) 23 Kashmiri curry flavoured with chillies, tomatoes, paprika and yogurt (5,4) 24 Latin word meaning for all, used to describe television or radio programmes repeated at the weekend (7) 25 __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ dilemma; situation in game theory based on how two players cooperate during arrest in order to obtain their most favourable outcome (9) 26 Former world No 1 tennis player who was the victim of a serious on-court knife attack in 1993 (5) 28 Country with the capital Kiev (7) 29 Author of Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave; one of the first English women to earn a living as a professional writer (4) 31 Methods of cooking found in books such as Larousse Gastronomique (7) 32 Greek name for the Maritsa (5) 33 Fruit with varieties including damson, greengage, Mirabelle and Victoria (4) 40 Genus of woody plants likely to be wiped out in Europe according to new evidence, Latin name Fraxinus (3,5) 41 ‘Dr Livingstone, I_ _ _ _ _ _ _’; words uttered by Henry Morton Stanley on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1871 (7) 43 Walt Disney Animation Studios film based on the tale of Rapunzel (7) 44 Antelopes endemic to South Africa (7) 46 One of the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest (7) 47 Candidate for nomination in the US presidential election with the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ (5) 48 Type of exam at Cambridge Uni (6) 50 Sideways extent of a pool as a measure of the distance swum, 25m for Olympic size (5) 52 Eldest son of Henry the Fowler and his second wife Matilda (4,1) 54 Strap passing under the barrel of a horse to secure a saddle and numnah (5) 55 The ____; first novel by Stephen Fry (4)