CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, _ Of Love (7)

6 Larry _, American harmonica virtuoso (5)

9 Lively dance popular in the 19th Century in England and France (5)

10 Unaccompanied church music sung in unison (9)

11 1887 operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan subtitled The Witch’s Curse (9)

12 Michael _, English dramatist whose plays include Noises Off (5)

13 Anarchic 1980s sitcom starring Ade Edmondson,

The Young _ (4)

15 Dog breed named after a coastal region of eastern Canada (8)

17 Arm of the South Pacific, location of the Great

Barrier Reef (5,3)

18 Vegetable with curly dark green leaves (4)

22 Muse of erotic verse (5)

24 Aromatic bitter bark used as a flavouring (9)

26 Site of an ill-fated invasion of Cuba in 1961 (3,2,4)

27 Christopher _, actor who played Superman on the big screen in

1978 (5)

28 County in the south-east of England (5)

29 Egg-laying mammal also known as a spiny anteater (7)

DOWN

1 Silky-haired goat, source of mohair (6)

2 Any of the 12 peers of Charlemagne’s court (7)

3 Island off the west coast of Italy, south of Naples (5)

4 Greek dramatist, author of Oedipus Rex (9)

5 Succulent plant from which tequila is made (5)

6 Jewish girl who kept a diary about the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War (4,5)

7 _ Lewis (pictured), 2006 winner of The X Factor (5)

8 Ruler when a monarch is unfit to govern (6)

14 Horse tamed by Gandalf in Tolkien novel The Lord Of The Rings (9)

16 P.C. Wren’s French Foreign Legionnaire hero (4,5)

19 Velvet Underground singer and guitarist (3,4)

20 1963 Volkswagen Beetle featured in several Walt Disney films (6)

21 Bluish or dark grey mineral, the chief ore of lead (6)

23 The _, James Cameron science fiction movie starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and

Ed Harris (5)

24 Particle with a negative charge (5)

25 In the Bible, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac (5)