Crossword MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS

1 English composer of the Sea Symphony (7,8)

9 Clothing that protects wearer against physical effects of nuclear weapons (5,4)

10 Wooden Turkish sailing boat (5)

11 Rich ice cream flavoured with dessert or fortified beverage(7)

12 West African guitar (6)

15 Flying mammal of the suborder Megacheiroptera (5,3)

16 George Clooney’s wife, a barrister (4)

19 — 500, annual US motor race (4)

20 Of an element highly resistant to corrosion (8)

23 St —, King of East Anglia from c855 to c870 (6)

24 Extensive grassy plains (7)

26 Dull yellowish-brown uniform colour (5)

28 National Park in Tanzania (9)

29 Borussia —, German football club in the Bundesliga (15)

DOWN

1 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (6,4)

2 Provided with insufficient money (11)

3 Rita —, 1918-87, US actress and dancer (8)

4 Greek heroine in the Odyssey (8)

5 Intelligence quotient questions (1,1,4)

6 Town on northern shore of lake of the same name in southern Switzerland (6)

7 Pointed instrument for boring small holes (3)

8 Third son of Adam and Eve (4)

13 Order of insects with four transparent wings (11)

14 One who creates objects from wrought iron or steel (10)

17 Medieval wandering musician (8)

18 Shown on television (8)

21 Legendary Jewish heroine in an apocryphal book of the same name (6)

22 US inventor of the phonograph (6)

25 Thin layer on surface of liquid (4)

27 Stiff bristle of barley (3)