CROSSWORD

Solve the crossword by working out the answers to clues and unscrambling the festive-themed anagrams. When completed correctly, the shaded squares, reading top to bottom, will spell out your prize answer.

ACROSS

1 ANAGRAM GLEANS

4 Surname connecting fictional boy wizard Harry to the creator of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix (6) 7 Vehicle such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (3) 8 Classic board game set in Tudor

Mansion (6)

9 ANAGRAM ARTS

10 Part, segment (5)

11 Jane Austen novel about a girl who interferes in the love lives of her friends (4) 13 ANAGRAM SLIT

15 ANAGRAM SATAN

17 Don’t put all your ___ in one basket, saying (4)

19 Study intensively for a short period before exams (4)

21 ANAGRAM CORAL

23 Cruel Roman emperor whose reign witnessed a fire that destroyed half of Rome (4)

24 City where Scrooge lived (6)

25 Plaything (3)

26 ANAGRAM SLIGHT

27 Extending farther down than (6)

DOWN

1 Member of one of a group of culturally-related Native American Indian tribes in Southwestern US (6)

2 Archimedes’s famous cry (6) 3 Measure of ice cream (5) 4 ANAGRAM SERPENT 5 ANAGRAM LISTEN 6 At the back (4) 12 Large cup (3) 14 The Old Man And The ___, short Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway (3) 16 Takes into police custody (7)

18 Word that can precede whisky, broth and bonnet to make three foodie things (6) 19 ANAGRAM LANCED

20 ANAGRAM GERMAN

22 Name missing from the following:

Frank Wright, Andrew Webber and

David George (5)

23 ANAGRAM LONE