GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Boss of the BBC (8-7)
11 I Heard it Through the ___,
Marvin Gaye hit (9)
15 Thermoplastic
substance (5-6)
16 High-handlebarred
motorcycle (7)
17 Chart-topping singer of
99 Red Balloons (4)
18 1966 No.1 hit for Frank
Sinatra (9,2,3,5)
19 Make of 1960s Italian
scooter (5)
21 Capital of the Caribbean state
of Grenada (2,7)
22 Neptune’s three-pronged
spear (7)
28 Star of Half a Sixpence (5,6)
30 South Wales region (7)
34 Old cavalryman armed
with a lance (5)
35 ___ Fox, Transformers
actress (5)
36 Members of a religious order
reliant on begging (10)
39 Follower of Locke or
Hume (10)
40 South Pacific republic (5)
41 Home ___, film starring
Macaulay Culkin (5)
44 Dave ___, Girls Talk singer (7)
45 Device that showed football results on a screen as they came in (11)
49 ___ Everdeen, The Hunger
Games protagonist (7)
50 Jangly style of piano
music (5-4)
57 One of the five Great
Lakes (5)
58 Frederic Raphael novel featuring Adam
Morris (3,10,6)
60 Elizabeth ___, Cocktail
actress (4)
61 Point nearest the Earth’s centre in the orbit of
the Moon (7)
62 Boy who met a pieman, going to a fair (6,5)
63 Greek youth who fell in love with his own
reflection (9)
64 Meat dish of Austrian origin (6,9)
DOWN
1 Clever devices (7)
2 Most frank and honest (11)
3 Arboreal songbird with drab plumage and
a downcurved bill (11)
4 One of the Three Wise Men, traditionally
Nubian (8)
5 Sanctions (9)
6 Native American people (7)
7 Winner of the Australian Open men’s singles
in 1989 and 1990 (4,5)
9 Ricky Gervais sitcom (6)
10 Underneath the ___, Flanagan and
Allen song (6)
12 Curly hairdo (4) 13 Alley game (8)
14 The Kiss sculptor (5)
20 Country on the Adriatic (7)
23 Mad Men actor (3,4)
24 Semitic African language (7)
25 Radioactive metallic element (7)
26 Sleepy guest at the Mad
Hatter’s tea party (8)
27 ___ Menzel, Let It Go singer (5)
29 Confining (8)
31 First name of model turned actress,
Ms Deyn (7)
32 Area in northern Scandinavia (7)
33 New York Times writer who in 1871 uttered
the words, ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’ (7)
37 New Orleans’ nickname (3,4)
38 ___ Carter, US president, 1977-81 (5)
42 1960s TV soap that starred
Ryan O’Neal (6,5)
43 Playing (music) in a different key from the
original (11) 46 Old Russian lady (8)
47 The Age of ___, 1920
Edith Wharton novel (9)
48 Anti-inflammatory drug (9) 51 Author of The Communist
Manifesto (4,4)
52 The Mosquito Coast
author (7)
53 British former professional
boxer (5)
54 Comedy series about Maplin’s holiday camp (2-2-2)
55 Musical show based on the
music of Borodin (6)
56 Calibrated instrument for making fine measurements (7)
59 Ancient Egyptian bull
deity (4)