GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Rank of hospital doctor (6,9) 11 Italian mathematician (9) 15 Actor who played the title role in the 2015‑19 Poldark series (5,6) 16 Surname of ‘the King of Swing’ Benny (7)

17 Devon river (4) 18 Polish‑born, American Jewish, Nobel Prize‑winning novelist (5,8,6)

19 The Mill on the ___, George Eliot novel (5)

21 Abigail’s Par ty director (4,5) 22 1956 Marilyn Monroe film (3,4) 28 Asian mammal of the order Dermoptera (6,5)

30 First name of Ms Jones, Doctor

Foster actress (7) 34 Hard‑working horse in Animal

Farm (5)

35 Director of Mr Deeds Goes to

Town (5)

36 Common European wild arum (6,4) 39 1957 Jackie Wilson hit (4,6) 40 Muse of love poetr y (5) 41 Willow species (5) 44 Hollande’s predecessor as president of France (7)

45 Orson Welles film (7,4)

49 Winter Olympics event (7)

50 Fish with long barbels on the chin (3,6)

57 Jeweller’s magnifier (5) 58 Designers of machines (10,9) 60 Theda ___, 1910s/20s US actress (4)

61 Nor thumberland town nor th of Newcastle (7)

62 Female half of the Eurythmics (5,6) 63 State that’s south of Colorado (3,6) 64 Technique of psychoanalysis (4,11)

DOWN

1 ___ of You, 2005 hit for Kelly

Clarkson (7) 2 Nottingham Cricket Ground (5,6) 3 Removed (property) until a dispute is settled (11)

4 Biscuit variety (8) 5 Songbirds which form large flocks (9)

6 SS leader (7)

7 Clean or roughen (a sur face) with a jet of fine par ticles (9) 9 Ocean west of Malaysia (6)

10 ___ Strindberg, Swedish playwright (6)

12 Actress, Ms Chaplin (4) 13 Olympic champion cyclist (5,3) 14 Captain WE ___, author of the Biggles books (5)

20 Fan of ska or reggae music (4,3) 23 Old hospital social worker (7) 24 London department store founded in 1875 (7)

25 Major Iranian city and airpor t (7) 26 Surname of legendary James Bond producer Cubby (8) 27 Father of Methuselah (5) 29 Main character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti‑slaver y novel (5,3) 31 Genus of birds to which the kiwi belongs (7) 32 World chess champion from 1969 to 1972 (7)

33 First par t of Dante’s The Divine

Comedy (7)

37 Greek wine (7)

38 Nomadic people of Eritrea and

Sudan (5)

42 Knight of the Round Table (3,8) 43 Movement of objects by willpower (11) 46 Brand‑name energy drink (8) 47 Instruction to infantrymen? (5,4) 48 Emily ___, actress sister of Zooey (9) 51 Style of cooking meat cutlets etc (8)

52 Home town of the Flintstones (7)

53 Green movie ogre (5)

54 Par t of the stamen that contains pollen (6) 55 Name of the main family in

Pride and Prejudice (6) 56 Terminus of the London Underground Victoria Line (7) 59 System which displays larger images than conventional film (4)