GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

10 Prime minister from 1935 to 1937 (7,7)

‘Living fossil’ fish discovered in 1938 (10)

Bugle call to waken soldiers (8) 1978 film starring Michael Caine and Maggie Smith (10,5)

___ of the Queen of Sheba, music by Handel (7) Kathryn ___, first woman to win the Best Director Oscar (7)

20 Director of Jaws and ET (9)

24 Tall, spiky, pink flowers (9)

25 ___ Roux, Jr., chef (6)

26 Star Wars starfighter (1-4)

30 SW Pacific island (3,9)

32 Stand by Your Man singer (5,7) 33 Chasing Pavements singer (5)

34 Site of the 1896 gold rush (8)

35 Surrender in wrestling (10)

39 Mother-in-law’s tongue, eg (5,5)

40 Film for which Sally Field won her

Best Actress Oscar (5,3)

41 Surname shared by TV personalities Louis and Bradley (5)

Actor who played Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones (7,5) Everyday French plonk (3,9) Jeweller’s magnifier (5) Lover of the Carthaginian queen Dido, in Greek and Roman mythology (6)

Athlete’s footwear item (5,4) Facial hair (9) Monarchs ruling Scotland 1371-1714 (7)

56 Sea off Phuket, Thailand (7)

59 1954 Marlon Brando film (2,3,10)

61 Naive girls (8)

63 Fluid mechanics (10)

64 Arts course for science students,

eg (7,7)

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1 Young ___, 1984 hit for the Bluebells (2,5) Anatomical location of the anterior cruciate ligament (4) 1930 Howard Hughes film starring Jean Harlow (5,6) Dublin theatre founded by WB Yeats and Lady Gregory (5) Optional course of study in the US (8)

Richard Wilson sitcom (3,4,2,3,5) Port on the Gulf of Guinea (5) First name of controversial German film-maker Riefenstahl (4)

Singer of Fashion and The Jean Genie (5,5)

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Lupine animals (6)

Writer of Mansfield Park (6) 1993 Wallace and Gromit film (3,5,8)

Of a triangle, having two equal sides (9)

Fawlty Towers waitress (5) King Lear’s youngest daughter (8) German writer (6,4)

Dating using tree rings (16) 1960s singer of As Tears Go By (8,9)

Dannii Minogue’s older sibling (5) XCIX expressed in words (6-4)

Much Ado about Nothing heroine (8)

Maria ___, former Russian tennis player (9)

Keanu Reeves film (5)

Type of barrier between fields (7,4) Arsenal (10)

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Muscles that turn parts of the body (8)

French Baroque composer (6) North African sand storm (6) French marigold with tiny orange flowers (7)

Dita Von ___, burlesque performer (5)

Holy book (5) 20th-century English novelist (4) Place where a leaf is attached to the stem (4)