QUIZ CROSSWORD

Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to reveal the name of an actress (8,6)

ACROSS

8 Cultural area and historical county in the north-west of France (8)

9 A Connecticut _ In King Arthur’s Court, 1899 Mark Twain novel (6)

10 Breed of cat from the Isle of Man with a mutation that shortens the tail (4)

11 Tennis player who is the current British No. 1 in women’s singles, _ Boulter (5)

12 US singer renowned for the songs At Last and I Just Want To Make Love To You, _ James (4)

13 2001 film directed by Wes Anderson, _ _ Tenenbaums (3,5)

16 Ancient dye, or the colour between blue and violet in the spectrum (6)

18 Long, thin, decorative piece of wood fixed about halfway up a wall, _ rail (4)

20 Matthieu _, the first French golfer to win on the modern PGA Tour (5)

21 Illustration using circles to show the relationships among things or groups of things, _ diagram (4)

22 Gaius Julius _, Roman emperor who was assassinated in 44 BC (6)

23 16th-century French author and humanist, François _ (8)

26 Johann Sebastian _, German composer of the Baroque period (4)

28 Italian fashion house whose creative director is Sabato De Sarno (5)

30 Author of the 1952 novel The Caine Mutiny, Herman _ (4)

31 The capital city of Canada (6)

32 Country in Southeast Asia whose capital is Bangkok (8)

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1 Baby’s _, common name of the flowering plant Gypsophila paniculata (6)

2 Goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology (4)

3 Pseudonymous Englandbased street artist whose work grew out of the Bristol underground scene (6)

4 The currency of Myanmar (4)

5 One of the twelve Titans in Greek mythology (8)

6 Gothic fiction author who wrote The Vampire Chronicles,

_ Rice (4)

7 Headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, The _ (8)

14 Ethan _, New Zealandborn rugby union player who represents England at international level (5)

15 1975 single by Paul Simon,

50 Ways To Leave Your _ (5)

17 The _ Wears Prada,

2003 novel by by Lauren Weisberger (5)

19 The practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant (1,2,5)

20 South American country whose capital is Asunción (8)

24 Lake in southern Siberia which is the deepest in the world (6)

25 Herbivorous lizard native to tropical areas of the Americas and the Caribbean (6)

27 Cold sea fog on the east coast of England or Scotland (4)

29 1981 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (4)

30 20th-century American animator, film producer and entrepreneur, _ Disney (4)