GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

10 Capsicum frutescens (5‑3,6) 12 Ecclesiastical benefice (10) 15 Amine compound found in putrefying animal and vegetable matter (8) 16 Former South African province, capital Bloemfontein (6,4,5) 17 Musical composition often preceding a fugue (7)

19 Small town across the estuar y from Falmouth (2,5) 20 Oenologist’s drinking vessel (4,5) 24 Basis for lines of latitude and longitude (4,5)

25 Herbal tincture applied to sprains and bruises (6)

26 Composer of The Merry Widow (5)

30 Pink Greek dish (12)

32 US reality TV show 2002‑2005 (3,9) 33 Mork’s 1970s TV friend (5)

34 Brilliant ___, 1987 Bruce Springsteen hit (8)

35 Austere Protestant faith (10)

39 Devon resort (10) 40 Monaco’s ruling family (8)

41 In Greek myth, the blood of the gods (5)

43 Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (6,6) 46 Wordsworth poem (7,5)

47 Giant and astronomer of Welsh legend (5)

48 Major Swiss city and lake (6) 49 Actress who played Frankie Whar ton in Waking the Dead (5,4) 54 Sea‑dwelling mammals (9)

55 Mean ___, Scorsese film (7) 56 Compound consisting of a long chain of molecules (7)

59 Title given to Privy Counsellors and government ministers (5,10) 61 Margaret ___, 19th‑century Scottish writer (8)

63 Knighted Olympic sailor (3,7) 64 Marx Brothers film (1,3,2,3,5)

DOWN

1 Section in a public librar y (7)

2 Giselle composer (4) 3 Car toon moggie with Twisted

Tales (5,3,3)

4 Dutch island (5) 5 Resistance‑var ying electrical instrument (8) 6 Shakespeare play about Agincour t (4,5,3,5)

7 The Beano bear (5) 8 Israeli city and por t (4) 9 Bicycle gear (10)

11 Yellow Teletubby (3‑3) 13 Scott ___, EastEnders’s Jack

Branning (6)

14 Resident of London’s Royal Hospital for war veterans (7,9) 18 Cilantro (9)

21 Muslim scholars (5) 22 Room equipped with sunbeds (8) 23 Crustacean used in oriental cooker y (5,5) 27 Asquith’s successor as PM (5,5,6) 28 1998 Tom Hanks war film (6,7,4) 29 Inventor of the electric batter y (5) 31 Increasing by a semitone (10) 36 Blood components containing haemoglobin (3,5)

37 Singer with the 1986 hit Ever y

Loser Wins (4,5)

38 Online grocery retailer (5) 42 Caused (someone) to become hostile (11)

44 Actress in the 1972 version of

The Getaway (3,7) 45 One of the noble gases (5) 50 Coming soon (2,3,3) 51 Fictional town which was the setting for A Touch of Frost (6)

52 Desert rodent (6) 53 Sliding scale (7) 57 Victoria ___ Mitchell, Only

Connect host (5) 58 Ground‑cover plant with ribbed leaves (5)

60 Nor wegian city which was called Christiania until 1924 (4) 62 1995 crime thriller starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro (4)