Crossword and Sudoku brain-teasers.
ACROSS
1 Victorian classicist who studied at the Royal Academy, his paintings include By Summer Seas, The Lament for Icarus, Pot Pourri and The Vintage Morn (6)
4 Author whose novels A Room with a View, Howard’s End and A Passage to India have been adapted into films (7)
8 Baked with ingredients such as haddock, cheese, broccoli, spinach or grilled courgettes, a savoury flan often served as part of a picnic (6) 14 Colour of the flowers of lily of the valley, Solomon’s seal, snowdrops, ramsons and wood sorrel (5)
15 Arches for croquet; circlets for modern forms of fusion dance or hula; barrel staves; or, contrasting horizontal bands of colour on racing silks (5)
16 Weighing about the same as a 20p piece, the UK’s smallest bird and a national symbol of Luxembourg (9)
17 Form of Hatha yoga sometimes described as meditation in action (7) 18 Coral ____; inhabited by invertebrates that spawn during a full moon, a type of ecosystem likened to a tropical rainforest of the sea (4)
19 Maltese capital, site of the Queen’s former residence as Princess Elizabeth, Villa Guardamangia (8)
21 Author of a number of novels based on rural life including The New Rector, The Village Show and Country Lovers (4)
22 British sitcom with comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb (4,4)
23 Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879, Russian revolutionary who developed a form of Marxism (7)
26 15th Duke of _______; title of Woburn Abbey owner Andrew Russell whose father featured in the series Country House (7)
28 Flowing 3,915 miles from the Tibetan Highlands, China’s longest river (either spelling accepted) (7)
29 Punting pole for propelling a barge; or, a fashion designer who popularised miniskirts, hot pants and patterned tights during the swinging Sixties (5)
31 Said to activate the heart chakra and symbolise love and harmony, a pinkish-coloured crystal occurring naturally in the core of pegmatites (4,6)
34 The __________ of Narnia; C. S. Lewis’s series of novels including Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle (10)
36 _____ Got Mail; film inspired by Miklós László’s play Parfumerie but based on internet dating instead of pen pals (5)
37 A string of fabric flags to decorate a fete, boat or garden party; poet who wrote Briggflatts; or, a family of birds that includes the yellowhammer (7)
39 The Lizard constellation (7)
41 Bobbin lace similar to point de venise or rose point, used for dresses/gowns (7)
43 Title of the king as he became known following his victory over Henry VI at the Battle of Towton (6,1,1)
45 Psychologist noted for social conformity experiments studying how peer pressure shapes human behaviour (4)
48 Japanese monk who founded a Buddhist movement with the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō mantra as key elements (8) 51 Unit of linear measure derived from the Roman distance of 1,000 paces (4)
52 Rudyard Kipling’s cousin who served three terms as UK prime minister (7)
54 General name for a 4x4 used for challenging or non-public terrain (3-6)
55 Sheepdog _____; herding event televised on Countryfile, One Man and His Dog (5)
56 Insects that pollinate honeysuckle (5)
57 Royal ______; an agreement required to make a bill into an Act of Parliament (6)
58 Half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert who popularised tobacco in England (7)
59 ______ king/queen; according to a tradition founded by Henry Croft, a coster dressed in a button-clad costume (6)
DOWN
1 Biologist who wrote The Selfish Gene (7)
2 Hair accessory inspired by a character in stories written by Lewis Carroll (5,4)
3 ______ equals mass times the speed of light squared; Albert Einstein’s theory summarised in his equation E=mc2 (6)
5 Science or description of mountains (9)
6 __ ________ Chapel; part of the old Palace of Westminster ruined by fire in 1834 (2,8)
7 Generating electricity from renewables and said to be Britain’s most eco-friendly island, one of the Small Isles (4)
9 Italian artist born Paolo di Dono in 1397 who painted Saint George and the Dragon and The Hunt in the Forest (7)
10 Card game based on deception (5)
11 Type of inlet where the sea meets a river/ stream and fresh and salt water mix (7)
12 Device on a heraldic shield such as an annulet, fusil, lozenge or roundel (6)
13 Largest isle of the Tuscan Archipelago, place of Napoleon’s first exile (4)
20 Nintendo ______; video game console codenamed “NX” during development (6)
23 Symbol of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) (7)
24 Actor who starred in Mr Turner (5)
25 ______ wrench; type of spanner with an indicator used for mechanics (6)
26 Former GBBO judge hosting a series about classic home recipes (5)
27 Author of The Millstone (7)
29 Pome related to pears and medlars (6)
30 SI unit of magnetic flux density (5)
32 _____ Arabia; country, capital Riyadh (5)
33 ______ Tailor Soldier Spy; John le Carré novel adapted into a miniseries and a film (6)
35 Type of flageolet or fipple flute (3,7)
38 General name for a form of horticulture practiced by Gertrude Jekyll, Humphrey Repton, Vita Sackville-West and Rosemary Verey (9)
40 Attar-scented distillate used as a skin toner or in cooking to flavour some types of Turkish delight (4,5)
41 _______ ferry; a Venetian traghetto (7)
42 Beast from which the constellation Monoceros takes its name (7)
44 Celtic pagan festival in February (6)
46 Related to mustard, night-scented stock and wallflower, a common name of Lunaria annua or money plant (7)
47 Ignite food such as crêpe Suzette as a dramatic table-side cooking effect (6)
49 Depicted in paintings by Vincent van Gogh, establishments that offer latte, espresso, cappuccino, tea... (5)
50 ____ turn; canoeing manoeuvre (4)
53 Queen of the Night’s ____; Der Hölle Rasche in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (4) SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY WITH YOUR CONTACT DETAILS to Friday, PO Box 6519, Dubai, UAE or email them to gnppromotions@gulfnews.com. Winners need to collect their prize from the Gulf News Dubai office. Details are sent to winners via email. Entries are open to everyone, but winners have to be UAE residents. A sudoku grid has a 9x9 grid that is further subdivided into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve the puzzle, each of the rows, columns and 3x3 boxes should contain all the digits from 1 to 9. The solution to this puzzle will be published in next week’s issue. Solutions will be given next week. The last date for entries is May 8. The winner of this crossword will be announced on May 18.
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