GK CROSSWORD

Across

3. Dog with black or brown spots (9) 8. Round yellow Dutch cheese (4) 9. Predatory marine fish with strong teeth (9) 10. Soft silvery-white element, symbol: Na (6) 11. Emma, actress who played Fallon in television’s Dynasty (5) 14. ‘-- Lescaut’, opera by Puccini (5) 15. Department of S. France on the Gulf of Lions (4) 16. Last letter in the Greek alphabet (5) 18. International airport south of Paris (4) 20. Lively modern ballroom dance from Brazil (5) 21. Daniel, author of A Journal of the Plague Year (5) 24. Paris stock exchange (6) 25. See 19 Dn. 26. -- of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (4) 27. ‘Carnal --’, 1971 film with Jack Nicholson (9)

Down

1. Tropical tree with large orangered fruit (9) 2. Ramsay, British Labour prime minister 1929-31 (9) 4. Robert, 18c Scottish architect and furniture designer (4) 5 and 9 Dn. 1964 Wimbledon ladies singles tennis champion (5,5) 6. Washington seaport on Puget Sound (6) 7. Alan, Hawkeye in television comedy M*A*S*H (4) 9. See 5. 11. Eurasian plant, Brassica napobrassica, with an edible root (5) 12. The Nautilus in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (9) 13. Verse line consisting of six metrical feet (9) 17. Nancy, first woman to sit in Britain’s House of Commons (5) 19 and 25 Ac. ‘The --’, 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6,4-5) 22. Member of a North American Indian people formerly living between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers (5) 23. Thomas, author of Buddenbrooks (4) 24. Alban, composer of opera Wozzeck (4)