The Imitation Game

Another award-winner about Second World War codebreakers features only two women – Joan

Clarke, pictured right and played by Keira

Knightley, and Joan’s mother, who rarely speaks.

Yet thousands of women served as cryptologists in the Army and Navy during the war, having significant, highlevel roles in cracking Nazi codes.

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Width of a circle (8) Highly impatient, eagerly excited (4) Living in a town (5)

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Waste metal (5) — Fielding, co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off (4) Educating (8)

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Property document (4)

Choir voice (4) Explode like a volcano (5) Preserve

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Most excellent (8) Rule over (6) National song (6) Duran Duran hit (3) Clinging crustacean (8)

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Come into view (6) — off, start a hole of golf (3) Savoury jelly (5) — Shankar, legendary sitar player (4)

Part of an aircraft (4)