GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Number One hit for Abba
in 1978 (4,1,6,2,2)
11 Nigel Kennedy’s
profession (9)
15 Gun or camera device (11)
16 Israeli currency units (7)
17 Measurement unit equal
to 0.9144 metres (4)
18 Jacobite pretender to
the throne (6,6,7)
19 1970s Lotus car model (5)
21 Athenian temple (9)
22 One of the official languages
of Switzerland (7)
28 Lawrence of Arabia
actor (5,6)
30 Glasgow stadium (7)
34 Both times (5)
35 New England state (5)
36 Scottish architect,
1728-92 (6,4)
39 St Andrews, The Belfry
or Troon, eg (4,6)
40 ___ Hall and John Oates,
singing duo (5)
41 Northern hemisphere forest
region (5)
44 PL ___, author of
Mary Poppins (7)
45 Scientific name for
mankind (4,7)
49 Coastal region of NW Italy (7)
50 Dangerously unsafe
structure (5,4)
57 Moniker by which Baroness
Grey-Thompson is known (5)
58 Evelyn Waugh novel (10,9)
60 ___ Effects, 2013 Steven
Soderbergh film (4)
61 Georgia’s capital (7)
62 Shakespeare comedy of an
exiled duke (2,3,4,2)
63 Inland water body between
Russia and Ukraine (3,2,4)
64 Holman Hunt painting at
Keble College, Oxford (5,2,3,5)
DOWN
1 Series of British comedy films which ran
from 1958 (5,2)
2 Device for imparting high energies to
atomic particles (11)
3 Adjustment of an instrument to make it accurate (11)
4 Choreographed routine on a rink (3,5)
5 Thick beef fillet (9)
6 1985 charity concert (4,3)
7 Bravo Two Zero author (4,5)
9 Weather phenomenon (2,4)
10 ___ Barton, The OC actress (6)
12 One of Bart Simpson’s sisters (4)
13 Floating seaweed found in the N Atlantic (8)
14 County of south-west Ireland (5)
20 Escape to the ___, BBC property show (7)
23 Coastal Californian tree (7)
24 Brand-name instant hot drink (7) 25 Play by Seneca the Younger (7)
26 Texan town (8)
27 Surname of Ore, TV presenter and Strictly
winner in 2016 (5)
29 Small Ceredigion town (8)
31 Jewish language (7)
32 One of Charlemagne’s twelve peers (7)
33 ___ on the Telephone, Blondie single (7)
37 Vice-president of medicine in Dickens’
The Mudfog Papers (7)
38 Traditional South African village of huts surrounded
by a fence (5)
42 French for ‘immediately’ (4,2,5)
43 Crime series which ran from 1968 to 1980 (6,4-1)
46 Essential nutrient found in egg yolk (7,1)
47 Evita’s husband (4,5)
48 Extra-sensory perception between two minds (9)
51 Young 1950s male with drainpipe trousers (5,3)
52 Surname of Roy, 1960s US singer (7)
53 Surname of Bill, Goodie turned TV naturalist (5) 54 Italian town associated with
St Francis (6)
55 1st-century BC Roman orator and
opponent of Caesar (6)
56 Non-Jewish person (7)
59 Volcano in Sicily (4)