best Puzzles

Use the anagrams, straight, cryptic, quiz and picture clues to solve the crossword. When completed correctly, the pink squares, reading top to bottom, left to right, will reveal the answer to the question below: Dido (Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley…) is back with Still On My Mind, her first studio album in six years – but what’s her surname? (9) This is your prize answer. See below for details on how to enter.

ACROSS

My Heart Will Go 7 On, sung by Céline Dion, was the theme for which James Cameron blockbuster? (7)

9 ANAGRAM LOWAL 10 Don’t make a ___ out of a crisis, saying (5) 11 PICTURE A What variety of penguin is this? (7) 12 Macadamia, pecan and pistachio are all types of what food? (3) 13 Travel document (8) 16 What items are sometimes called ‘rocks’ when added to alcoholic drinks to cool them? (3,5) 17 In favour of (3) 19 Which popular holiday destination for Brits is the largest of the Balearic Islands, found in the Mediterranean? (7) 21 See 3D 22 Can you find the railway vehicle IN ART? (5) 23 Castle prison (7)

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1 School pupil, eg (7) 2 Which is the second largest ocean in the world? (8) 3& 21A PICTURE B Name this actress, back later in the year for a third series of Marcella (4,5) 4 What wind instrument is most closely associated with Scotland? (8) 5 Speak drunkenly (4) 6 The pen is mightier than the ___, adage (5) 8 What is the name for a platter of Brie, Cheddar or Stilton, etc, when served as a course of a meal? (11) 13 And, sticking with the theme: which Italian cheese is made from ewe’s milk? (8) 14 ANAGRAM PEADRIER 15 See 20D 18 What surname links thespians Sheridan, Matt and Dame Maggie? (5) 20& 15D PICTURE C Who is she? (4,7) 21 Speak as you ___, expression (4)