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:

Who organised the ‘morale boost’ mentioned in 11A? (3,5) This is your prize answer. Enter by using the numbers at the top of the grid or at hearstmagazines.co.uk/bestcross2221

6 What West Indian dance is where participants must bend backwards to pass under a horizontal bar? (5) 8 What word can be added to the front of man, nova and star to make three different things? (5) 10 What famous statue is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo? (5) 11 PICTURE A Name the song by him that was recorded, sung line by line, by a host of stars, intended as a morale boost early on in the pandemic? (7) 12 Drive this CAR round the bend (3) 13 Between the Devil

and the ___ sea, saying (4,4) 15 Put (someone) on a ___, idealise, exalt (8) 16 & 22A PICTURE B Who is this comedian? (3,5) 19 What is the name for the pasta that comes in short spirals? (7) 21 Public square (5) 22 See 16A (5) 23 What is international radio code for the letter ‘T’? (5)

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1 PICTURE C What is his wife’s first name? (6) 2 What is the medical name for the collarbone? (8) 3 Arrange for the MAID to get among things (4)

4 What Turkish port was formerly known as the Roman city of Constantinople? (8) 5 She went ___ with envy, expression (5) 7 Which famous Dickensian orphan is rescued in the end by Mr Brownlow? (6,5) 9 Twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet (3) 13 ANAGRAM WILDGLEN

14 Which British band’s biggest hit was Vienna, back in 1981? (8) 17 Field, pasture (6) 18 Sounds like the New Yorker found the sweetbreads to be terrible! (5) 20 Costa del ___, resort region on the coast of southern Spain (3) 21 What liquid measure is equal to one-eighth of a gallon? (4)