GIANT CROSSWORD

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10 Moon Tiger author (8,6)

12 Birthday on which you gain majority (10)

Implant material (8) Medicinal plant of the oenothera

genus (7,8)

Creamy frozen dessert (7) Surname of the US Masters winner in 2016 (7)

Latin name for Scotland (9) Cricketer who’s the last in the batting order (4-5)

Epic poem by Virgil (6) Surname of Loose Women

regular Coleen (5) Blood-group antigen (6,6) 2006-09 TV series starring Nigel Harman (5,7)

Arab country that will host the 2022 World Cup (5)

Type of poetry espoused by Wordsworth and Blake (8) Regiment of the Household Cavalry (4,6)

Child’s game using a piece of string (4,6)

Trainee sailor? (3,5) Stallone film hero (5) Pyrenean scene of a battle in 778 (12)

German author of Emil and the Detectives (5,7) Body-hugging fabric (5) 50-mile canal opened in 1914 (6) Nashville’s state (9)

Dog used to scent game (3,6) Country east of Poland (7) Poet Laureate 1813-43 (7) Knighted English footballer nicknamed The Wizard of the Dribble (7,8)

Condition caused by a lack of oxygen (8)

Line on a computer keyboard (10) 1950s/60s chief conductor of the Proms (7,7) 15 16

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1 Type of road-crossing (7)

2 First name of Ghost star Ms Moore (4) Economic exploiter of another country (11) Passover ceremony (5) Remove (someone) from active participation (8) Film starring Mae West and WC Fields (2,6,9) Creator of Tintin (5) Frankenstein’s manservant (4) Study of Satan, Lucifer and Beelzebub, eg (10) 1960s singing brothers Don and Phil (6)

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Fermented soya product (6) Ecclesiastical sitcom starring Dawn French (3,5,2,6)

The Laughing Cavalier painter (5,4)

King ___ Aziz, founder of modern Saudi Arabia (5) Former BBC newsreader (4,4) Italian film director (10) Medical painting by Rembrandt (3,7,6) Daylight saving (7,6,4) Homer Simpson’s wife (5) Raising the nap on (cloth) (10) Port in the SW Netherlands (8) American term for a flat (9) Brittany port and naval base (5) 42 44

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Oberammergau event (7,4) Suffragette daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst (10) Beatles’ record label (5) Suspension of one liquid in another (8)

Calms (6)

Steve ___, Despicable Me star (6)

Chloë ___, actress (7) Abode of the dead, in Greek myth (5) Swedish seaport (5) Michelle ___, Memoirs of a Geisha actress (4) Hindu ascetic practising a form of meditation (4)