THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD NO. 3298
‘Something’. After their divorce, she married Eric Clapton, and he wrote the song ‘Wonderful Tonight’ for her. He also wrote the most famous song about her, which is named after a 7th century Persian love story by Nizami Ganjavi. What is the name of the song and the story?
Born this day in 1976, Stephen Gately was the colead singer along with Ronan Keating of the most successful boyband to come out of Ireland. Formed after auditioning more than 300 singers, the band eventually had five members and went on to release seven studio albums. Which band was this, whose first U.K. chart topper was a cover of the Bee Gees song ‘Words’?
Born this day in 1990, this woman is the first Indian athlete to win two Singles gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. She was the first badminton player to win an Olympic medal and a Super Series title. Who is this athlete, whose autobiography is titled Playing to Win: My Life On and Off Court?
A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley
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Shows articles needing revision (8)
Bows found in war chest (6)
Guiding bovine in German (8)
T-bone? Quite the opposite; it’s a rice dish (6)
Then I get how playing vuvuzela perhaps is epic (4,4,3,4)
Diana Ross’s colleague is kind of chicken (7)
Hide from ultimately hideous family (4) This kind of jazz makes you leap back (4) Great syrups for VIPs (7)
Bizarrely, some cheer tabloid
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Taking heads – extremely impatiently – ghastly husband, this Henry? (6)
Remove somewhat obese para, temporarily (8)
Drank heavily, like an ornamental fish? (6)
Easiest trips taking in Italy, in my view (2,1,3,2)
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Quit – and enlist once again? (6)
Charlie rests, then does housework (6) Deliberately lose boxing match – no longer bold – waste (5,3)
Thinking ahead, men trim logs ornately (4-7)
Red Queen’s absorbing a bookworm? (6)
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European capital’s underworld’s dark, they say (8)
Deputies’ reputations not good (5-3)
Samples including Everyman’s – I’m disgusted – pointless diversions (4-7)
Ethicist squirming, most uncomfortable (8)
Model and monarch in Iberian kingdom: bit of a dish? (8)
The quickest learners hurl foodstuffs at senior teachers (8)
Finally finishes plastic surgery with the sharpened tool (6)
Who speaks for author who’s pegged it in largish car(6)
Consume food – not seriously, you say? (6)