WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN ACROSS

1 Travelling items, usually cases, that are above the weight allowed free (6,7) 8 Laboratory assistant to Frankenstein in film versions of Mary Shelley’s novel (4) 9 Baker Street ____ , group of street boys who supply information to Sherlock Holmes (10) 10 Castle in Nottinghamshire where King John died of dysentery in 1216 (6) 11 A creative work intended to be understood symbolically (8) 12 A shiny black, web-footed seabird that feeds on large quantities of fish (9) 14 The leaf-bearing axis of a

plant (4) 15 ____ Park, green space in central London that includes Speakers’ Corner (4) 16 A gondolier’s song (9) 20 To move like or in waves (8) 21 To ascribe something usually evil, dishonest or the like (6) 23 The smallest of Spain’s

Balearic Islands (10) 24 The weaker players at the end of a team’s batting order in cricket (4) 25 The belief that flawlessness

is possible and desirable (13)

DOWN

1 Spanish painter who was born Doménikos Theotokópoulos in Crete in 1541 (2,5) 2 ____ Bruni, Italian-French model who married French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 (5) 3 A disagreeable person or

thing (7) 4 Section of a store where goods are sold at reduced prices (7,8) 5 A flock of geese on water

or land (6) 6 ____ pear, another name

for an avocado (9) 7 Sensory tissue receiving sound vibrations whose technical name is the tympanic membrane (7) 13 A ____ Night’s Dream, play by Shakespeare that includes characters Puck and Bottom (9) 15 A cage for keeping female

domestic fowl (3-4) 17 U.S. city whose baseball teams are the Cubs and the White Sox (7) 18 A soft, silvery metal that is used in rechargeable batteries (7) 19 1964 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sean Connery (6) 22 ____ Smith, U.S. singer/ songwriter born in 1946 dubbed the ‘punk poet laureate’ (5)