GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
10 Waterway that narrows into
the Severn estuary (7,7)
12 Author of Agnes Grey (4,6)
15 Surname of the heroine in Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? (8)
16 Style of swimming
17 Alpine pass (7)
19 Cretan princess who helped
Theseus (7)
20 Buddhist leader (5,4)
24 Hundreds, at cricket (9)
25 5th-century king of the
Huns (6)
26 Freshwater organism famed
for its regenerative ability (5)
30 Ingredient of a Brandy
Alexander cocktail (5,2,5)
32 House of Wax star (7,5)
33 Battle where William of Orange defeated the Jacobites (5)
34 Old machine for spinning
cotton (8)
35 The Good ___, novel by JB
Priestley (10)
39 Meaty eatery (10)
40 Honorary title on retirement (8)
41 Mel B’s Spice Girls epithet (5)
43 Removal of sodium
chloride (12)
46 Island between Bute and
mainland Scotland (5,7)
47 Brand-name loaf (5)
48 German town known in
French as Aix-la-chapelle
49 Akhenaten’s wife (9)
54 Tranquilliser (9)
55 Interlaced (7)
56 Gwendolen’s surname in
The Importance of Being Earnest (7)
59 During a preliminary court
hearing (2,5,8)
61 Surname of British dramatist
Terence (8)
63 Drawing ( a crowd) (10)
64 1941 Bing Crosby film (4,2,8)
DOWN
1 Rustic district of ancient Greece (7)
Continent (4) Blustering (11)
African capital situated almost on the Greenwich Meridian (5) Cornish town where the last working tin mine in Europe was located (8)
6 Power from non-nuclear or
fossil-fuel sources (11,6)
7 Aberdeenshire town (5)
8 Style of motor racing (4)
9 Participant in a chukka (4,6)
11 ___ Detroit, Guys and Dolls
role (6)
13 Famous comic-book hero 14 US ideal? (3,8,5)
18 Inflammation of the lungs (9)
21 Delicately flavoured seaweed
used in Japanese cuisine (5)
22 Tiny island off Sark (8)
23 Compound used as a local
anaesthetic (10)
27 Wooden chest residing within the
Jewish Holy of Holies (3,2,3,8)
28 Australian state, capital
Darwin (8,9)
29 Joel Coen’s film-director
brother (5)
31 Rope-to-rope knot (5,5)
36 Canadian federal police
officers (8)
37 Enclosed apparatus for
premature babies (9) 38 ___ Evert, 1970s tennis
champion (5)
42 Deducting (11)
44 Orwell novel (6,4)
45 Jordanian port (5)
50 Canines in the upper jaw
51 Of iron (6)
52 Kate’s sister in The Taming of
the Shrew (6)
53 Noblest of King Arthur’s
knights (7)
57 Forename of the architect
Jones (5)
58 Creator of the Scarlet
Pimpernel (5)
60 Chocolate snack made by
Mars (4)
62 Biopic movie with Judi Dench
and Kate Winslet (4)