Crossword: Win £550
Use the anagrams, straight, cryptic, quiz and picture clues to solve the crossword. When completed correctly, the pink squares, reading top to bottom, left to right, will reveal the answer to the question below:
PICTURE C was the 11th studio album by the Beatles – what was their 12th and final one? (3,2,2) This is your prize answer. Enter by using the numbers at the top of the grid or at hearstmagazines.co.uk/ bestcross4920
ACROSS
1 & 16D PICTURE A Who is she? (6,7) 4 PICTURE B This is French president, Emmanuel who? (6) 7 Hawaiian garland (3) 8 Minor technical problem (6) 9 See 15A 10 Farewell for now (5) 11 Computer geek, eg (4) 13 Can you see to it the NETS are dispatched? (4) 15 & 9A PICTURE C Name the Beatles album (5,4) 17 It’s like a red rag to a ___, saying (4) 19 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely ___, best-seller by Gail Honeyman soon to be a major film (4) 21 ANAGRAM TULIN 23 Make-up looks more casual when PALS supply it (4) 24 Rank, putrid (6) 25 What is the name for a male swan? (3) 26 Mouse’s noise (6) 27 To what continent does Spain belong? (6)
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1 Miss ___, musical set during the Vietnam War and which is based on the opera Madame Butterfly (6) 2 Sign on the ___ line, expression (6) 3 What is international radio code for the letter ‘A’? (5) 4 Call the ___, popular period drama, back for a Christmas special on 25 December (7) 5 Nicosia is the capital of where? (6) 6 Require (4) 12 Long-necked Aussie bird (3) 14 What is Maria’s original occupation in The Sound of Music? (3) 16 See 1A 18 If cows are bovine and sheep are ovine, eg – what are wolves? (6) 19 Ring or index digit, eg (6) 20 In the US it’s called chicory, what do we call the same thing? (6) 22 Clan (5) 23 ANAGRAM DUSS