GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Conrad’s novel in which Kurtz
features (5,2,8)
11 British crown colony (9)
15 Former daytime
TV presenter (4,7)
16 Country neighbouring
Ukraine (7)
17 US crime drama (inits)(4)
18 1970s sci-fi series with
Dirk Benedict and Lorne Greene (10,9)
19 ___ Butler, hero of Gone with
the Wind (5)
21 Ballroom dance (9)
22 Nationality of a
Mandarin-speaker (7)
28 Dairy product such as
Philadelphia (5,6)
30 Chemical element, one of the
transition metals (7)
34 Author of the poems on which
the musical Cats is based (5)
35 One of the nine Greek
Muses (5)
36 Gymnast who won three gold medals at the Munich Olympics (4,6)
39 Austrian-born
US composer (10)
40 ___ board, item used by
spiritualists (5)
41 First name of film score
composer Mr Morricone (5)
44 Popular ballet composed by
Adolphe Adam (7)
45 Embodying US values (3-8)
49 Principe’s island
neighbour (3,4)
50 ___ Humperdinck, The Last
Waltz singer (9)
57 ___ Cussler, writer of
adventure novels (5)
58 Hue that forms white or black when mixed with another (13,6)
60 Don’t ___, Fleetwood Mac hit (4)
61 African country (7)
62 University’s legislative assembly (11)
63 Annealing (9)
64 Play which ushered in an era of
kitchen-sink drama (4,4,2,5)
DOWN
1 Banner of socialism (3,4)
2 Gibberish (6,5)
3 Waters off east Italy (8,3)
4 Brightest star in the constellation
Boötes (8)
5 Overwhelmed (9)
6 Desert breeze (7)
7 Immersing (vegetables) briefly in
boiling water (9)
9 Infrequent occurrence (6)
10 Oriental skiff often with sails (6)
12 First name of US actor Mr Reynolds (4) 13 Method used to identify limestone (4,4)
14 Poland’s currency unit (5)
20 US linguist and philosopher, author of
Syntactic Structures (7)
23 Netherlands brewing company (7)
24 Author of Lolita (7)
25 First name of novelist AS Byatt (7)
26 System of transporting cars and their
drivers by train (8)
27 Sikh title or surname (5)
29 Evil hypnotist in George Du Maurier’s
novel Trilby (8)
31 White-coated dog of Siberia (7)
32 Make of Ford van (7)
33 17th-century reformed Protestant (7)
37 Samuel Beckett play (7)
38 River of the Low Countries (5) 42 Lewis Carroll poem that mentions ‘the
frumious Bandersnatch’ (11)
43 ‘Little people’ of Ireland (11)
46 First name of 1930s/40s actress
Ms Goddard (8)
47 ___ hat, tall headgear item (9)
48 Sponge, typically baked in a ring
shape (5,4)
51 Finno-Ugric language of northern
Europe (8)
52 ___ Bailey Rae, Put Your Records
On singer (7)
53 A Question of ___, TV quiz show (5)
54 Middle name of US president Franklin
Roosevelt (6)
55 Old name for England (6)
56 Lancashire town (7)
59 Cheryl and Liam Payne’s son (4)