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ACROSS 1 Pen name of the English author David John Moore Cornwell whose novels include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Honourable Schoolboy and A Delicate Truth (2, 5) 5 Traditiona­l Provençal stew based on a variety of fish, vegetables and herbs served with rouille and bread (13) 12 Icy body with an eccentric orbit in the Kuiper belt with five known moons: Charon, Hydra, Kerberos Nix, and Styx (5) 13 ------- Sally; song that features in a film adaptation of a novel written by Roddy Doyle of the same name (7) 14 Italian physicist and anatomist whose findings based on the twitching of frogs’ legs in an electric field led to his discovery of bioelectro­magnetics (7) 15 Form of musical entertainm­ent usually based on a light or humorous theme (8) 16 Actor who starred in Pride and Prejudice, the Bridget Jones movies,

Dorian Gray and The King’s Speech (5) 17 Capital of the country with other major cities including Split, Rijeka, Osijek and Sibenik (6) 20 Italian dessert of espresso-soaked savoiardi, mascarpone, cream and cocoa (8) 23 -----hole; Cornish fishing harbour and hamlet described by Dylan Thomas as “the loveliest village in England” (5) 24 ----- Hutt; city in theWelling­ton region of New Zealand (5)

26 Random -------; 1941 novel by the author who also wrote Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr Chips (7) 27 French author whose novel Madame

Bovary resulted in him being charged by the government (and later acquitted) (8) 29 Austrian physicist and philosophe­r of science who contribute­d towards the developmen­t of the measure of speed based on the speed of sound (4) 32 A collection of bees or beehives (6) 33 First-magnitude red supergiant star, the brightest in Scorpius (7) 35 Ace of ------; also known as the “death card”, the highest-ranking card in a deck (traditiona­lly) (6)

39 ---- Wellington; dish of pâté- and duxelles-coated fillet steak, wrapped in puff pastry and baked (4) 40 Profession­al who writes music (8) 42 Brightest star in Ursa Minor (7) 44 Earth pigment used by Johannes Vermeer to create The Milkmaid (5) 46 Any of three species of birds related to wagtails in the genus Anthus (5) 48 Work of art or literature portraying country life (8) 50 Informal term for copyright infringeme­nt (6) 51 Quantities of paper equal to 500 sheets or 20 quires (5) 52 Classic Sicilian dish of aubergines, tomatoes, celery and onions flavoured with capers, green olives, pine nuts, raisins and parsley (8)

57 The Wings of --- ----; 1902 novel by the author of The Portrait of a Lady and What Maisie Knew (3, 4) 58 Breed of gun dog trained to indicate the presence of game in a similar manner to the setter (7) 59 Country with a tricoloure­d national flag and the Ashoka Chakra at its centre (5) 60 The ------- ------; band who celebrated their 50th anniversar­y in 2012 (7, 6) 61 One of the artists whose work was recently discovered in an art stash in Munich (7) DOWN 1 Elementary particle such as a muon or tau (6) 2 Shallow, stemmed glass dish in which chilled fruit desserts are served (5) 3 Second-largest city of Brazil (3, 2, 7) 4 Regional dialect for an ant; also a nickname for a tourist in Cornwall (5) 5 Kate ----; singer-songwriter whose albums include Lionheart, The Sensual

World and The Red Shoes (4) 6 Chemical element that was used to make a variety of now retro glassware that glows bright green under ultraviole­t light (7) 7 Device invented in its incandesce­nt form by Sir Joseph Swan (5, 4)

8 Mythologic­al ship that sailed from Iolcos to Colchis (4)

9 British sitcom starring Gorden Kaye as café owner René Artois (4, 4)

10 The Little -------; nickname of cabaret singer Édith Piaf (7)

11 City, birthplace of Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (9)

18 The children’s imprint of Penguin Books; also the auk known as the clown of the seabirds (6)

19 Actress who starred as Sir Henry Irving’s leading lady for 20 years (5) 21 Mother of King Arthur (7) 22 The ninth Greek letter (4) 25 Second-largest moon of Saturn, named after the Titan who rescued her son Zeus from Cronus (4)

28 English writer who created The

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (5) 30 Tax haven in the Pyrenees (7) 31 A person who studies caves (12) 34 Continent, site of the world’s smallest state by area and population (6) 36 Belt similar to the Japanese obi (4) 37 Flowering plant such as the Papaver

rhoeas (5) 38 Creatures in Pierre Boulle’s 1963 sci-fi novel La Planète des singes (4) 39 Long-running series with an award badge designed by Tony Hart (4, 5) 41 Mrs ---------; character created by Norwegian author Alf Prøysen (9) 43 Vegetable in the cabbage family (8) 45 Weight used in powerlifti­ng (7) 47 Horologist known as the “father of English clock-making” (7) 49 Bishop’s ------; Grade I listed building inWells noted for bell-ringing swans (6) 53 Latin word for gold (5) 54 World’s longest mountain range (5) 55 Composer of Wozzeck and Lulu (4) 56 Genus name of the great bustard (4)

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