FRIDAY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Commemorated in Poets’ Corner, the author of The Shepheardes Calender and the allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I The Faerie Queene (7)
5 Traditionally depicted on shortbread rounds and their tins, a prickly flower used as a national emblem of Scotland and of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (7)
9 Maple _____; ingredient used to flavour savoury foods such as roasted parsnips as well as sweet recipes such as pancakes and waffles (5)
12 Oleoresin harvested from a tree native to the Philippines, used in aromatherapy (5)
13 Rebecca _____; protagonist in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (5)
14 Mayonnaise-like sauce served with raw julienned celeriac or smoked salmon (9)
15 French phrase denoting a manner of painting outdoors that was fundamental to Impressionism from the early 1860s (5-3)
16 Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7)
17 French couturier and confrère of Pierre Balmain whose debut collection in 1947 was christened the “New Look” (4)
20 ______ of the Bounty; incident when commander William Bligh was set adrift in an open boat by his own men (6)
21 Type of photographic portrait taken for police records, invented by Alphonse Bertillon in the 1880s (3,4)
22 Nickname of Reginald Twistleton, a Drones Club member in the Uncle Fred books by P. G. Wodehouse (5)
26 ____ slippers; Dorothy Gale’s magical shoes in the film The Wizard of Oz (4)
28 Cathedral city on the River Wye (8)
29 Latin name of pigeons and doves (7)
32 Faint southern constellation representing a pendulum clock (10)
33 Scientific study of the Moon (10)
36 General name for a kitchen device such as a pastry cutter, rolling pin, lemon squeezer or sieve (7)
37 Named after a former Florentine palace now a museum, needlepoint that produces zigzag/ flame stitch patterns (8)
38 ____ of Alexandria; ancient Greek credited with inventing the first vending machine who also devised the aeolipile and a way to determine the area of a triangle (4)
40 Film with Sylvester Stallone that is a spin-off/ sequel to the Rocky movies (5)
42 Ropes used for a ship’s rigging (7)
43 Former Countryfile presenter who also cohosted Animal Park, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie, Springwatch and Lambing Live to name a few (6)
48 Opera set in ancient Egypt by Verdi (4)
49 Small type of crown; part of deer’s antler; or, the margin of skin between a horse’s pastern and its hoof (7)
50 Berlin-born British figurative artist of the School of London noted for impastos including
Head of E.O.W. IV and Head of Leon Kossoff (8) 54 Chocolates made with hazelnuts; or, small, round pieces of boneless lamb (9)
55 Northanger _____; Jane Austen novel (5) 56 Path of an electron around an atomic nucleus, or a planet around a star (5)
57 Card game played professionally by Victoria Coren Mitchell (5)
58 Items for strength training such as barbells, kettlebells and dumb-bells (7)
59 Inventor of the steam hammer (7)
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1 A sail of a windmill; or, one of the dog puppets on The Sooty Show (5)
2 Himalayan mountain successfully ascended by Edmund Hillary, Ranulph Fiennes, Kenton Cool and Ben Fogle (7)
3 Form of intense aerobic exercise on a stationary bike; or, the process of twisting wool or other fibre into yarn (8)
4 World’s largest country by area (6)
5 Small dabbling duck known collectively as a spring; or, a blue-green colour (4)
6 __________, Sunrise; painting by Monet (10)
7 Sill at the bottom of a doorway associated with a post-wedding custom (9)
8 Stoat in its white winter coat, or its fur
(or imitation) with black markings used for ceremonial or royal robes (6)
9 Food sometimes eaten as a first course or starter to a larger meal (4)
10 A pastime or activity enjoyed by bookworms and bibliophiles (7)
11 Literary genre with forms including ode, sonnet, villanelle and limerick (6)
18 Traditional desk with drawers and compartments for stationery/papers and a hinged drop-down flap for writing (6)
19 Royal _______; manufacturer of the Bunnykins tableware and figurines (7)
20 Mythological Greek god of dreams (8)
23 The _______; Anton Chekhov play (7)
24 Artist who painted Saint George and the Dragon and The Hunt in the Forest (7)
25 Henry VIII’s warship raised from the Solent in 1982, 437 years after it sank (4,4)
27 De facto capital of Switzerland (5)
30 Actor who played James Bond in seven films including Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun (5)
31 Cosmetic traditionally called rouge (7)
34 According the first law of thermodynamics, ______ cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system (6)
35 One of the names for a right of way represented on an OS map as a dashed green line (or red depending on scale) (6,4)
37 Presenter of The Ascent of Man ,aBBC documentary series commissioned by David Attenborough (9)
39 Areas with lockable cabinets for rifles/ firearms within some country houses; or, junior officers’ mess halls on warships (8)
41 Late entrepreneur who founded The Body Shop in 1976 (7)
44 _______ Hedge; series of illustrated children’s books by Jill Barklem including Autumn Story and Winter Story (7)
45 Philosopher who was a founding member of the Vienna Circle and wrote The Logical Structure of the World (6)
46 Chinese custom of kneeling and touching the ground with the head (6)
47 Writer whose allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress was quoted by the Queen during her first televised Christmas message (6)
51 Coop for domesticated rabbits (5)
52 Teddy ____; toy made by Steiff (4)
53 Bird sacred to the ancient Egyptians because of their belief it was the embodiment of Thoth, god of wisdom, writing and knowledge (4)
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.