Scottish Daily Mail

WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

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ACROSS

8 Jim, U.S. singer/songwriter and lead vocalist of The Doors (8) 9 A dried grape often used as an ingredient in cooking (6) 10 Lysander’s bride in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (6) 11 Lacking in diplomacy (8) 12 ‘Hall of the slain’ in Norse mythology (8) 13 Bob, Jamaican reggae star born in 1945 (6) 14 Jon, Channel 4 News presenter (4) 16 Paul, Crocodile Dundee actor (5) 17 A wooden barrel used for storing drink (4) 18 Adrian, actor who played Superinten­dent Ted Hastings in Line Of Duty (6) 20 Branch member of a global charitable organisati­on for those in business (8) 23 A Portuguese hot sauce of African origin made from red chilli peppers (4-4) 24 Kay, creator of TV drama series Fat Friends (6) 25 U.S. term for a dinner jacket (6) 26 Citizen of a country whose capital is Tallinn (8)

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1 ____ Ravenclaw, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (6) 2 Nick, Greg James’s predecesso­r as presenter of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show (8) 3 Country founded in 1948 whose first Prime Minister was David Ben-Gurion (6) 4 Subtitle of the fourth film in the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series released in 2011 (2,8,5) 5 Kent, local TV news presenter in The Simpsons (8) 6 Glenn, U.S. big band leader who released In The Mood in 1939 (6) 7 People who follow the latest trends, with the pretence of remaining outside of the mainstream (8) 15 Fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (8) 16 Rex, My Fair Lady actor (8) 17 Barbara, prolific English romantic novelist (8) 19 Sam, winner of The X Factor in 2013 (6) 21 Salad vegetable with varieties including cherry and beefsteak (6) 22 A weatherpro­of jacket of skin or cloth with a hood attached, originally worn by the Inuit (6)

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