GIANT CROSSWORD

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8 15th‑centur y author of Ar thurian legends (3,6,6)

11 Fair y‑tale and pantomime character with seven little friends (4,5) 15 Brain part associated with learning, behaviour and personality (7,4) 16 Oldest breed of horse (7) 17 Ornamental box, part of traditional Japanese dress (4) 18 Flanagan and Allen song (10,3,6) 19 Holy peninsula in Greece, prohibited to women (5) 21 Technical term for chickenpox (9) 22 Raging storm (7) 28 Famous diva (5,6) 30 Game of chance (7) 34 Surname of Dragons’ Den presenter

Evan (5) 35 Hippie‑like rabbit in The Magic Roundabout (5) 36 Last era in which the dinosaurs lived (10)

39 Former judge on Strictly Come

Dancing (3,7)

40 ___ Syal, actress (5)

41 Ken ___, Rebus actor (5)

44 Billy J Kramer’s backing group (7) 45 A A Milne book of verse (3,2,3,3) 49 Hattie ___, Eric Sykes’ on‑screen par tner (7)

50 Violent state takeover (4,5) 57 Flat‑woven Turkish carpet (5) 58 Kent town (5,9,5) 60 Operator of the 100 and 250 share indices (inits)(4)

61 2005 superhero movie starring Jennifer Garner (7) 62 Tribunal to expose heresy (11) 63 Oscar‑winning Woody Allen film starring Diane Keaton (5,4) 64 Possible change of Parliament (7,8)

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1 American Art Nouveau glassware (7) 2 Postponement of legal proceedings (11)

3 TV magician 1938‑2016 (4,7) 4 Drink made from fruit juice and yogur t (8)

5 Sibbald’s rorqual (4,5) 6 French Riviera resort (7)

7 and 53 Down Austrian‑German actor (9,5) 9 Medieval capital of the French Champagne region (6) 10 Fortieth US president (6)

12 Last of the Summer ___, TV sitcom (4) 13 Aesop’s hare racer (8)

14 ___ of the Day, spor ts programme (5)

20 Star t of the calendar (3,4) 23 Mythological nymph, beloved of Acis (7)

24 Minnesota’s American football team (7)

25 County town of Tipperar y (7) 26 In music, with each note sounded separately (8)

27 Monica ___, tennis player who won nine Grand Slam singles titles (5) 29 Winning horse in the 1981 Grand National (8) 31 Language spoken in Antwerp (7) 32 ___ Graham, The Guru actress (7) 33 Agatha Christie novel subtitled Poirot’s Last Case (7)

37 The Steadfast Tin ___, Hans Christian Andersen stor y (7) 38 ___ Gets in Your Eyes, song (5) 42 Freelance trucker (5‑6) 43 Style of cooked onions (11) 46 Town in South Lanarkshire (8) 47 Columbine (9) 48 Oscar‑winning Henr y Mancini song (4,5) 51 Herbicide (8) 52 Andrea ___, Italian opera singer (7) 53 See 7 Down 54 Colourless and odourless hydrocarbon gas (6) 55 Jennifer Love ___, US actress (6) 56 Valley near For t William (4,3) 59 ___ Walesa, 1990s president of Poland (4)