GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

10 Rattigan play with Freddie Page and Hester Collyer (3,4,4,3) Popular starter in a trendy Italian restaurant (10)

15 Muslim hermit or monk (8)

16 Interview for the media (5,10)

17 First name of Whisky Galore

writer Mackenzie (7)

19 Greek or Turkish pastry made with honey and nuts (7)

‘Allo ‘Allo character (4,5) East Anglian river (5,4) Italian fashion house set up in Milan in 1975 (6)

26 Australian landmark (5)

30 Substance like garam

masala (6,6)

32 Summer-visitor British songbird of marshland and reed beds (5,7) Tolkien’s reddish-gold dragon of Middle Earth (5)

34 New World mountain lions

35 Italian pork sausage (10)

39 Creature that ‘Nessie’ is supposed to be (10)

___ Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Marilyn Monroe song (8)

First name of Billy Liar author Mr Waterhouse (5)

Sports journalist and TV presenter (4,8)

Milky pudding topped with heated sugar (5,7)

First name of Hollywood actress, Ms Oberon (5)

Hansel’s sister (6) Herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous period (9)

Art form in which a carving projects slightly from a surface (3-6)

In Greek mythology, oldest of the three Fates (7)

56 Top Gear’s mystery driver (3,4)

59 Scottish professional golfer (8,7) 61 Vade mecum (8)

63 In the year of our Lord (4,6)

64 Conflicts brought to an end by

the Battle of Bosworth (4,2,3,5)

DOWN

1 1959 hit for Neil Sedaka

2 Book of Scandinavian mythology (4)

Cradle of civilisation (11) First leader of independent Uganda (5)

5 Does better in a game (8)

6 Political protest associated with

Mahatma Gandhi (7,10)

7 Football stadium in Glasgow

8 Magic dragon in the popular children’s song (4) Canine association (6,4)

Sir Paul Mccartney’s daughter (6) Paralysing poison from a tree bark (6)

(2,5)

Nathaniel Hawthorne novel Capital of Mauritius (4,5)

___ on Main Street, Rolling Stones album (5)

22 Japan’s second-largest city (8)

23 Rebecca in the TV series This is Us (5,5)

Film in which Mary Astor played Brigid O’shaughnessy (3,7,6)

28 1936 Frank Capra comedy starring Gary Cooper (2,5,4,2,4) (Of meat) prepared in accordance with Islamic law (5)

Article, in grammar (10) Prehistoric track linking Avebury with the Thames (8)

37 Flaps used to steer a plane (9)

38 2015 film starring Michael Caine

and Harvey Keitel (5) 42 Scottish cap (3-8)

44 Mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it (10)

45 John ___ Baird, Scottish

pioneer of television (5)

50 W Sussex racecourse (8)

51 Male vocal quartet (2,4)

52 Conforming to Jewish dietary

laws (6)

53 City of west-central France (7)

57 Surname of Celia, actress in Calendar Girls (5)

___ Butler, Clark Gable character (5)

60 US crime drama (inits)(4)

62 ___ Bang-a-bang, Lulu’s 1969

Eurovision winning song (4)