FRIDAY CROSSWORD

Crossword and Sudoku brain-teasers.

ACROSS

1 Author noted for children’s novels including A Little Princess, The Secret Garden and The Lost Prince (7)

5 With around 3,000 varieties including Earl Grey, English breakfast and Darjeeling, a beverage derived from the leaves of a species of camellia (3)

7 Related to cotton, cacao and hibiscus, a selfsowing cottage garden plant with tall stems of cream, peach, scarlet or creme de cassis flowers (9)

12 _____biotic; roughly translating as “long life” in Greek, a diet and lifestyle based on organic whole foods and the yin-yang philosophy of balance (5)

13 Spanish artist whose works range from the mural-sized painting Guernica to minimalist line drawings including Dog, Owl, Mouse, Camel and Horse (7)

14 King Kong co-creator who wrote detective and crime novels including the Four Just Men series, The Clue of the New Pin and The Lady of Ascot (7)

15 Known to the Romans as lorica hamata, mesh-like armour worn by medieval knights and soldiers derived from the designs of the Celts (5,4)

16 Traditional village celebration with fundraising activities including coconut shies, raffles, cake stalls, tombolas ... (4)

17 Containing an asterism formed by the three stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka, a constellation named after a mythological Greek hunter (5)

20 Flock of swans kept for pleasure; wild animals hunted for food; general name for an activity such as cards or ludo; or, a period of play forming a set in tennis (4)

21 Honeybee’s sequence of movements performed as a form of communication, first decoded by Karl von Frisch (6,5)

23 Anthropologist who coined the genus name Australopithecus; a missile thrown from behind an oche; or, a tapered tuck in dressmaking (4) 27 An entr’acte or intermezzo between the acts of a play and a light dramatic or comic piece during such a pause (9)

30 From the Malay meaning tie or bind, a traditional Indonesian resist-dye method and cloth used for cushions, lampshades, rugs and dresses (4)

31 Broad______; drama set in Dorset with David Tennant and Olivia Colman (6)

34 ___ ____ ___ we’ll see; English translation of the aria Un Bel dì Vedremo from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (3,4,3)

35 Study of the meaning of words (10)

37 Surname of protagonist Fern in E. B. White’s tale Charlotte’s Web; or, a description of land suitable for crops (6)

38 Author of Success, Money, London Fields and non-fiction The Rub of Time (4)

39 With symbols including golden apples, roses, scallop shells, pearls and doves, the Greek goddess of love (9)

41 Young of many animals including the cow,

elephant, rhinoceros and whale (4)

42 Variety of Yorkshire cheese, a favourite of Nick Park’s character Wallace (11)

44 Apochromatic lens inventor who established the Carl Zeiss Foundation (4)

48 Napoleon’s brother-in-law who served as king of Naples 1808–15; a flamboyant cavalry leader shot following a failed attempt to regain his throne (5)

50 One description of a book collected by an antiquarian; or, of a steak cooked a degree more than bleu (4)

52 Series of races for horses at Paris Longchamp or for Formula One cars (5,4)

55 Bird of prey with a forked tail (3,4)

56 Inspired by Morse code and invented by a former boy scout, machine-readable data in the form of parallel lines (7)

57 Epic poem attributed to Homer (5)

58 Auction house that sold Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi for $450.3 m in 2017 (9)

59 Author of a biographical trilogy beginning with Cider with Rosie (3)

60 _______ Room; Royal Observatory’s star chamber designed by Christopher Wren (7)

DOWN

1 A collision in a type of rowing race contested between Oxford or Cambridge college boat clubs (4)

2 Artist noted for illustrations of Grimm’s fairy tales and stories by Kenneth Grahame and J. M. Barrie (7)

3 Description of a tropical fruit such as a guava, mango, pineapple or tamarillo (6)

4 Flexible rulers used by tailors, dieticians, dressmakers and carpet-fitters (4,8)

5 Striped textile used for mattresses, pillows, deckchairs and upholstery (7)

6 Recess such as the one in St Peter’s Basilica containing the Chair of St Peter (4)

7 English polymath who formulated the law of elasticity, developed the balance spring and coined the word “cell” (5)

8 Author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (8)

9 One of the primary pigment colours (6)

10 Only existent relative of the giraffe (5)

11 Angler’s device for retaining fish (7)

18 Roman general written about in a book by his son-in-law Tacitus (8)

19 Fabric originally from Nîmes used for jeans, jeggings, shirts and dungarees (5)

22 Spanish word for a promenade between rows of poplars (7)

24 Latin phrase meaning “former” (1,6)

25 Communication system used by blind and visually-impaired people; a code of raised dots and cells invented in 1824 (7)

26 First name of Effi Briest author whose surname Fontane features on the Berlin Walk of Ideas book stack sculpture (7)

28 1979 double album by Pink Floyd (3,4)

29 Dutch humanist; a friend of Thomas More opposed to Martin Luther (7)

32 Comic play by Noël Coward (3,5) 33 Artist of the Italian Renaissance who created the sculpture Pietà (12)

36 Actress who starred as Jane Seymour in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (5)

40 King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936 (6,2)

41 Batiste- or chambray-like fabric (7)

43 Pudding mould used for chocolate fondant, English madeleine or puff pastry filled with almond cream (7)

45 The capital of China, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics (7)

46 Book by Benedict de Spinoza (6)

47 Short run or blast on a bike at maximum speed in interval training (6)

49 Person travelling by horse or bike (5)

51 Genus of shrub that includes the blackcurrant and gooseberry (5)

53 Belgian singer whose songs include Ne Me Quitte Pas and Les Flamandes (4)

54 UK prime minister from 1955-57 (4) A sudoku grid has a 9x9 grid that is further subdivided into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve the puzzle, each of the rows, columns and 3x3 boxes should contain all the digits from 1 to 9. The solution to this puzzle will be published in next week’s issue.