GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
10 Prime minister from 1935 to
1937 (7,7)
12 ‘Living fossil’ fish discovered
in 1938 (10)
15 Bugle call to waken
soldiers (8)
16 1978 film starring Michael
Caine and Maggie
Smith (10,5)
17 ___ of the Queen of Sheba,
music by Handel (7)
19 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)
43 Actor who played Tywin
Lannister in Game of
Thrones (7,5)
46 Everyday French plonk (3,9)
47 Jeweller’s magnifier (5)
48 Lover of the Carthaginian queen Dido, in Greek and
Roman mythology (6)
49 Athlete’s footwear item (5,4)
54 Facial hair (9)
55 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)
DOWN
1 Young ___, 1984 hit for the Bluebells (2,5)
2 Anatomical location of the anterior cruciate
ligament (4)
3 1930 Howard Hughes film starring Jean
Harlow (5,6)
4 Dublin theatre founded by WB Yeats and Lady
Gregory (5)
5 Optional course of study in the US (8)
6 Richard Wilson sitcom (3,4,2,3,5)
7 Port on the Gulf of Guinea (5)
8 First name of controversial German film-maker
Riefenstahl (4)
9 Singer of Fashion and The Jean Genie (5,5)
11 Lupine animals (6)
13 Writer of Mansfield Park (6)
14 1993 Wallace and Gromit film (3,5,8)
18 Of a triangle, having two equal sides (9) 21 Fawlty Towers waitress (5)
22 King Lear’s youngest daughter (8)
23 German writer (6,4)
27 Dating using tree rings (16)
28 1960s singer of As Tears Go By (8,9)
29 Dannii Minogue’s older sibling (5)
31 XCIX expressed in words (6-4)
36 Much Ado about Nothing heroine (8)
37 Maria ___, former tennis player (9)
38 Keanu Reeves film (5)
42 Type of barrier between fields (7,4)
44 Arsenal (10)
45 ___ of a Salesman, Arthur Miller play (5)
50 Muscles that turn parts of the body (8)
51 French Baroque composer (6)
52 North African sand storm (6)
53 French marigold with tiny orange flowers (7)
57 Dita Von ___, burlesque performer (5)
58 Holy book (5)
60 20th-century English novelist (4)
62 Place where a leaf is attached to
the stem (4)