The Scotsman

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)

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom