GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
10 Retired female marathon
runner (5,9)
12 Plants of the mallow
family (10)
15 Novel by Zola (8)
16 Office worker familiar with
Pitman’s symbols (9,6)
17 Composer nicknamed the
‘Waltz King’ (7)
19 French artist who painted The
Yellow Curtain in 1915 (7)
20 Painting from the 18th century
or earlier (3,6)
24 White-bellied songbirds (9)
25 ___ Nights, song from
Grease (6)
26 W African country (5)
30 English Nobel Prize-winning
dramatist (6,6)
32 Member of a Harlem
basketball team (12)
33 Glassed-in central
courtyards (5)
34 Cheated (8)
35 Device for measuring engine
speed (10)
39 Arbor vitae (4,2,4)
40 Puccini opera that includes
Nessun Dorma (8)
41 Cylindrical military hat now
only worn ceremonially (5)
43 French term meaning ‘love at
first sight’ (4,2,6)
46 Device that turns generators in a conventional power station (5,7)
47 Surname shared by actresses
Emma and Sharon (5)
48 Sacred early writings of
Zoroastrianism (6)
49 Roman road from Rome to Capua and thence to
Brindisi (6,3)
54 14th-century collection of
novellas by Boccaccio (9)
55 Back payments (7)
56 Kalahari nomad (7)
59 Miser in A Christmas Carol (8,7)
61 System concerned with conduct and duty (8)
63 Technical term for beekeeping (10)
64 The Nutcracker character (5,4,5)
DOWN
1 ___ Newman, British actress (7)
2 In the Big Bang theory, the primordial matter of
the universe (4)
3 Group off the Galway coast (4,7)
4 Hitler’s first name (5)
5 First name of thriller writer MacLean (8)
6 Speech that mentioned ‘government of the
people, by the people, for the people’ (10,7)
7 Big group of fish (5)
8 ___ the Impaler, inspiration for Bram Stoker’s
Dracula (4)
9 1970s Tessa Wyatt sitcom (6,4)
11 BBC antiques auction programme (4,2)
13 French-born US cellist (2-2,2)
14 Welsh classical and popular
mezzo-soprano (9,7)
18 Greek counterpart of Venus (9)
21 Surname of 1960s/70s female
impersonator Danny (2,3)
22 Disease caused by lack of vitamin B (8)
23 A Woman of No ___, Oscar Wilde play (10)
27 Drowsiness afflicting divers (7,2,3,4)
28 Business not regulated by
government (7,10)
29 Shrub of the gorse family (5)
31 Isle of Wight rocks (3,7)
36 Stir-fried noodle dish (4,4)
37 Martha and the Muffins hit (4,5)
38 ___ the Fall, Arthur Miller play (5)
42 Ancient ship with five banks of oars (11)
44 Torah (10) 45 Internet-based grocery
retailer (5)
50 Division of garden beds in
an ornamental pattern (8) 51 Anna ___, author of Black
Beauty (6)
52 Asian river that originates in
Tibet (6)
53 Ceiling beams (7)
57 German industrial city near
Dortmund (5)
58 Italian Grand Prix circuit (5)
60 Left-handed judge in
the Bible (4)
62 Sir David ___, Doctor
Zhivago director (4)