GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Knight’s emblem (7,5)
7 ___ Estevez, actor son of
Martin Sheen (6)
11 Armada (5)
15 First name of Gold Digger
rapper Mr West (5)
16 Edible snails, as found in
France (9)
17 Person at the back of a
tug-of-war team (9)
18 Surname of the hero of
The Thirty-nine Steps (6)
19 Davy Jones’s locker (3,5)
20 First name of Hollywood star
Bogart (8)
24 Profession of Josiah Crawley in Trollope’s later ‘Barsetshire’ novels (6)
25 First name of DIY SOS
presenter Mr Knowles (4)
27 Tartuffe author (7)
28 James ___, The Likely Lads
actor (5)
31 Irish female singer, real name
Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (4)
32 From the westernmost county
of England (7)
33 Peer ranking between a
marquess and a viscount (4)
34 Language of East Africa with
over six million speakers (6)
38 South Wales city (7)
40 Tourist destination near Bali (6)
41 Palanquin (5,5)
45 At an oblique angle (5)
46 Building at one end of
The Mall, London (9,4)
48 Home to ___, 1980s sitcom
starring John Thaw (5)
49 Ale with a strength of
4.2-4.7% abv (4,6)
50 Member of a Utah-based
religious sect (6)
52 Aircraft’s wing flap (7)
55 Comedy-horror family (6)
58 Operator of the 100 and 250 share
indices (inits)(4)
59 Number One hit for Steps in 1998 (7)
60 Woodland deity (4)
65 American boxer known as Iron Mike (5)
66 County Antrim city (7)
67 Marine steering gear (4)
68 Lucy ___, nursery-rhyme character (6)
70 Fabric used for making scuba-diving
gear (8)
71 Organic fertiliser (8)
73 1990 film starring Kathy Bates,
based on a Stephen King novel (6)
76 House in Rebecca (9)
78 Pasta similar to ravioli (9)
79 Kim’s co-presenter on How Clean
Is Your House? (5)
80 Sanskrit word for a Hindu sage
or poet (5)
81 1992 Wimbledon men’s champion (6)
82 Martin Shaw’s title character in a
2007-2017 detective series (6,6)
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1 ___ Hakkinen, Finnish former racing driver (4)
2 Actress who played Sue Ellen in Dallas (5,4)
3 From Here to ___, film (8)
4 First name of Brideshead Revisited author Waugh (6)
5 Hymn sung at the end of a service (11)
6 Country in which the ruins of Palmyra are located (5) 8 Ruth Wilson’s character in His Dark Materials (3,7)
9 Noel Gallagher’s brother (4)
10 Came into contact (of teeth) (8)
11 ___ Rida, rapper (3)
12 Victor Hugo’s gypsy dancer (9)
13 Welsh resort town (5)
14 SI unit of electrical charge (7)
21 Forename of the artist Picasso (5)
22 Surname of Andrea, former Loose Women
presenter (6)
23 House of Commons cry? (4,4)
26 Srinagar native (8)
29 Simenon’s famous French police inspector (7)
30 Lowest musical voice in women (9)
35 Fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (6)
36 Densely populated peninsula in SE China (7)
37 Nepal’s capital city (9) 39 Funeral vigils (5)
42 Surname of Matt, winner of The X Factor in 2010 (6) 43 My Cherie ___, Stevie Wonder song (5)
44 Former Corrie actress (3,5)
45 Writer of the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel
Possession (1,1,5)
47 Musical direction meaning ‘regally’ (8)
51 British food writer (5,6)
53 Latitude, in degrees, of the North and South Pole (6)
54 Dry red wine from Burgundy (10)
56 Capital of Iowa (3,6)
57 Classic Morris car (5)
61 Tight-fisted shop owner in Open All Hours (9)
62 US actor in the 1970s series M*A*S*H (4,4)
63 Dante poem (7)
64 Irish port (8)
69 Gore Vidal historical novel of 1987 (6)
70 Belgian city (5)
72 First name of singer Ms Goulding (5)
74 Constellation that includes Vega (4)
75 ___ Sadie, Beatles song (4)
77 Biblical character (3)