GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Potentially suicidal game
of chance (7,8)
11 Permissible range of variance (9)
15 Instrument used to listen to the
heart or lungs (11)
16 Brand-name waxed jacket (7)
17 Units of electrical resistance (4)
18 German composer and
organist (6,9,4)
19 First name of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning US author
Sinclair (5)
21 1990s sitcom set in a law
firm (2,2,5)
22 Spanish drink of sweetened
spiced wine (7)
28 Having to do with treatment
of the teeth (11)
30 Southern district of New York’s
Manhattan (7)
34 ___ Gebrselassie, 1990s/2000s
athlete (5)
35 Name by which the
Mariinsky Ballet company is better known (5)
36 We’re ___, song from
Gold Diggers of 1933 (2,3,5)
39 Short simple songs (10)
40 Nina ___, ventriloquist (5)
41 Shakespearean forest (5)
44 Character played by
Viggo Mortensen in
The Lord of the Rings (7)
45 Queen’s authorisation of
a parliamentary bill (5,6)
49 Florence ___, original member
of the Supremes (7)
50 Divisions of a musical
composition (9)
57 Polynesian island state (5)
58 Bristol to London train route (5,7,7)
60 First name of fashion designer Ms Kiely (4)
61 Football team nicknamed ‘the Gunners’ (7)
62 Retired US tennis player who won the US Open in 2003 (4,7)
63 Leader of a revolt against Rome in 73BC (9)
64 DBC Pierre novel (6,3,6)
DOWN
1 Film starring Marilyn Monroe (3,4)
2 Detergent (7,4)
3 Joining the gold rush! (11)
4 Burning of a heretic by the Spanish Inquisition (4-2-2)
5 ___ City, Heaven in The Pilgrim’s Progress (9)
6 Fine flexible leather (7)
7 English name for Playa Giron, in Cuba (3,2,4)
9 ___ Dennis, Neighbours actor (6)
10 ___ Smollett, 18th-century writer (6)
12 Old Testament book (4)
13 Country south-east of Thailand (8)
14 Dutch Caribbean island (5)
20 Film set in Berlin starring Liza Minnelli (7)
23 Blundering short-sighted cartoon character (2,5) 24 Infantry formation (7)
25 Cat ___, Morning Has Broken singer (7)
26 Native of Mindanao, perhaps? (8)
27 Musical symbols indicating silence (5)
29 Town on the eastern border of Derbyshire (8)
31 ___ barge, watertight tube (7)
32 Parenting expert in Supernanny (2,5)
33 Underworld (7)
37 Port in northern France (2,5)
38 Panama or Kiel, eg (5)
42 Actor who played Sidney Chambers in Grantchester (5,6)
43 Style in which Oliver Cromwell wished to be depicted (5,3,3)
46 Surname of a Sheridan character known for her word blunders (8)
47 Egyptian queen played by Elizabeth Taylor (9)
48 People who steer racing crews (9)
51 Surname of Thomas Hardy’s character Bathsheba (8)
52 16th-century Dutch philosopher and humanist (7)
53 1980s Wendy Craig TV series (5)
54 Number of Apostles (6)
55 Family name in Persuasion (6)
56 Surname of the author of Cranford (7)
59 Old Icelandic prose tale (4)