FRIDAY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
11 Queen whose name was given to numerous things including an Australian state (8)
12 Dutch artist who painted irises and sunflowers (3,4) 13 Word traditionally ascribed to the full moon in April (4)
14 A triangle icon for initiating media (4)
15 Raised surface fibres of a textile such as velvet (3)
16 Novelist also known as Barbara Vine (7)
17 A rapier; or, a dive position (4)
18 A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works include The Village (6)
20 The rolling swell of the sea; or, a billowing cloud (5) 21 Set of three panels hinged to form one work of art, often as an altarpiece (8) 23 Boater-style hat at Harrow (5)
25 Unit of biological classification ranking below a genus (7)
27 Long-tailed rodent known collectively as a mischief (5)
28 Sound box of a violin or a guitar (4)
29 One-twelfth of a foot (4) 30 Upper storey of a stable used for hay (4)
32 Thin plate of gold on an episcopal robe (6)
35 Word originally for a tablecloth or bedcover that came to mean a woven floor covering (6)
37 Circuit court held by itinerant justices in medieval England (4)
38 Adult tadpole (4)
39 Twilight, that includes the blue hour (4)
41 Glass coloured blue with cobalt oxide (5)
43 Shrubs or trees clipped into ornamental shapes, such as those at Levens Hall (7)
44 Team game or sport invented at the school portrayed in Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days (5)
45 Flower “speedwell”, considered a lucky charm for travellers (8)
47 English royal house symbolised by a stylised red-and-white rose adopted as a badge by Henry VII (5) 49 A fastener feared by koumpounophobics (6)
51 Nautical pole such as a boom, gaff, mast or yard (4) 53 A Millais painting used to advertise Pears soap (7)
54 Title of honour placed before the forename of a knight or a baronet (3)
55 A minted disc deposited into a piggy bank (4)
56 Scroll of parchment or papyrus that was an ancient form of book (6)
57 Japanese art of fencing (5)
58 French word for ornamental centrepieces with branching holders (8)
DOWN
1 Brief article or item used to bridge a gap in a newspaper or broadcast; or, decorator’s caulk (6)
2 One of a series of metal ribs or strips of whalebone used to stiffen an early style of corset; or, a guy-rope (4) 3 A barn for storing threshed corn (6)
4 From the Latin meaning “field’’ university grounds and buildings (6)
5 Tree or plant that retains its foliage all year round such as bay, box, pine, rosemary or yew (9)
6 Primordial Greek goddess and personification of necessity (6)
7 Colourful knots of ribbons given as awards (8)
8 Element, atomic no. 81 (8) 9 A ranking; or, a marking on a Dalmatian (4)
10 Acrobat’s one-wheeled vehicle (8)
19 A cereal grain; or, a coffee bean (5)
22 A corbel; or, a triangular component of a roof (5)
23 Catchy mottoes or phrases used in advertising or politics (7)
24 Part of the torso between the ribs and hips (5)
25 Meaning “wooden shoe’’, a plain plinth at the foot of a bust, column, pedestal, statue, urn or wall (5)
26 A stirrup; or, a safety curtain in a theatre (4)
31 Architect “Quinlan’’ whose works include interiors of 10 Downing Street (5)
32 Historically, a liveried groom perched behind a carriage, typically a small boy (5)
33 Word originally meaning trial, test or attempt (5)
34 Foliate part of a finial (4) 36 Disciple of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle (5)
39 Latin word for a finger or a toe (5)
40 Village near Aylesbury, site of a house with “le goût Rothschild’’ interiors (9)
42 Ceramic or metal caps for protecting the fingers while sewing (8)
43 Brownie- or flapjacktype cake cooked in a rectangular tin before being cut into squares (8)
46 Glass harmonica invented by meteoritics founder Ernst Chladni (6) 47 Claws belonging to birds of prey (6)
48 Variety of apple or its reddish-brown colour (6) 49 Item made by a cooper; or, the quill of a feather (6) 50 Nicholas Hilliard’s protégé whose miniature A Young Man Seated Under a Tree includes the first painted depiction of a knot garden (6)
52 Meaning “browned’’, a cooked mixture of butter and flour as the base of many classic sauces (4)
55 Dialect for a squirrel’s nest (4)