£250 Crossword
ACROSS
1 The world’s second-largest island, located in the southwest Pacific Ocean (3,6) 5 An animal or plant that lives in or on another, from which it obtains nourishment (8)
9 A dense tuft of grass (7) 10 20th-century American singer whose hits included
I Heard It Through The Grapevine and Let’s Get
It On (6,4)
11 See 29 Down
12 Hackneyed and dull (5)
13 A very short hairstyle, _
cut (4)
15 An exclamation of triumph on discovering or solving something (6)
17 Imaginary imp blamed for malfunctions in machinery (7) 19 Apprehensively or
worriedly (9)
21 Large thrush with a pale grey head, brown wings and a blackish tail (9)
22 Voluntary self-punishment to
atone for a sin, crime, etc (7) 23 Japanese plant, the green pungent root of which is used to make a condiment (6) 25 Disturbance made by an unruly mob or (in law) three or more persons; tumult or uproar (4)
26 To reject with contempt (5) 27 The microscopic study of the tissues of an animal or plant (9)
31 The wife of Winston Churchill, life peer in her own right from 1965 (10) 32 Steve _, American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc in 1976 (7)
33 Sue _, creator of the fictional
diarist Adrian Mole (8) 34 People or things of no
importance, informally (5,4)
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1 East Midlands football club
nicknamed ‘The Magpies’ (5,6) 2 See 29 Down
3 A person who comes to live in a place in which they were not born (7)
4 A republic in Asia, the capital
of which is Yerevan (7)
5 A freshwater, spiny-finned fish, valued as a food and game fish (5)
6 Andy _ Jr, Mexican-american boxer, former heavyweight world champion (4)
7 Character in Tchaikovsky’s
ballet The Nutcracker (5,4,5) 8 To attempt to deceive or fool
someone, informally (3,2,2) 11 Courtroom drama by Reginald Rose; originally a television play, later adapted for stage and film (6,5,3)
14 Grooved ring or part holding
a gem, watch crystal, etc (5) 16 A water spirit in Scottish
folklore (6)
17 Anglo-saxon noblewoman who reputedly rode naked through Coventry, Lady _ (6) 18 A hat with peaks at the front and back and earflaps which are usually turned up and tied together on the top (11)
20 See 29 Down
22 Latin word for butterfly, also a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family (7)
23 The highest part of the back of a horse, behind the neck between the shoulders (7) 24 A type of North American
aquatic salamander (7) 28 Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, attributed to Homer (5)
29, 20 Down, 11 Across and 2 Down 1969 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone (4,4,1,4,2,3,4) 30 A lively and jerky dance performed to jazz or rock and roll music (4)