Puzzle No 1750

Clues across

1. Which pioneer of blue jeans never wore his own product? (4,7)

8. What ingredient in ancient Egyptian ointments caused deformities? (7)

9. What is flashy, ostentatious jewellery? (5)

10. What oil from a mahogany tree is used in pesticides? (4)

11. Which brightly flowering perennial is of the buttercup family? (7)

12. What large cask holds 252 gallons? (3)

13. Who was prime minister of New Zealand both after and before Holyoake? (4)

15. What is to tilt to one side? (4)

17. A silver $5 New Zealand coin issued in 2018 features what bird? (3)

19. What is to waste away through lack of use? (7)

20. The female of which sea mammal can live up to 90 years? (4)

23. “Guitar groups are on the way out,” said which record company to the Beatles in 1962? (5)

24. In 1996, gold and silver were added to which product’s palette? (4-3)

25. What name is shared by a Victorian novelist and a Royal Navy flagship captain? (6,5)

Clues down

1. Which endurance car race was established in 1923? (2,4)

2. What is a grass border along a road? (5)

3. What is a pointy, clawlike growth on the leg of a rooster? (4)

4. Which brand of sunglasses was developed for the US Army Air Corps? (3-3)

5. What carried thing usually has eight ribs? (8)

6. Who were given a “pipe down” order, the origin of the expression? (7)

7. What is a sheep aged between 12 and 24 months? (6)

12. Thirty years ago, Anna Paquin was awarded an Oscar for what film? (3,5)

14. Which fruit’s name derives from the Arabic al-birquq? (7)

16. More than 300,000 extras appeared in what 1982 film? (6)

17. What is the condition of nearsightedness? (6)

18. What name for China was used in medieval Europe? (6)

21. Heinrich Hertz’s 1886 experiments with reflected radio waves eventually led to what? (5)

22. Where in England did Mary Godwin (later Shelley) write much of her novel Frankenstein? (4)