GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
10 Expert in human societies
and cultures (14)
12 Italian lettuce variety (5,5)
15 Surname of tennis-playing
sisters Venus and Serena (8)
16 Beethoven piano piece (9,6)
17 First name of Spanish
opera singer Domingo (7)
19 Eric ___, guitarist (7)
20 Deepest lake in England (9)
24 1702-14 British monarch (5,4)
25 French artist who painted
The Swing in 1876 (6)
26 First name of 1960s star
Ms Mansfield (5)
30 Knitting style (6,6)
32 Fizzy Italian wine (4,8)
33 Surname of Bravo Two Zero
author (5)
34 Military supplies (8)
35 2000 film starring Renée Zellweger and Morgan
Freeman (5,5)
39 Scientific study of trees (10)
40 What Katy Did author (8)
41 French Requiem
composer (5)
43 Air layer extending to about 50km above the Earth’s surface (12)
46 Fictional town setting for The
League of Gentlemen (7,5)
47 Any fleshy stoned fruit (5)
48 Informal name for the BBC (6)
49 Money-saving measures (9)
54 Mr Humphries in Are You
Being Served? (4,5)
55 Portuguese holiday region (7)
56 Fatuous, stupid (7)
59 Agatha Christie Poirot
novel (4,5,3,3)
61 Altogether (8)
63 Visconti film based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (10)
64 1997 film starring Russell Crowe
and Kim Basinger (1,1,12)
DOWN
1 Ancient manuscript letters (7)
2 Singing brother of Don Everly (4)
3 Hanna-Barbera cartoon pair (3,3,5)
4 American bandmaster and composer
of marches (5)
5 Solution used as a disinfectant (8)
6 David Jason sitcom (5,4,3,5)
7 Mary J ___, hip-hop and soul singer (5)
8 Novel’s main events in interrelated
sequence (4)
9 Famous beach in Rio de Janeiro (10)
11 1959 Neil Sedaka hit (1,2,3)
13 City in northern Portugal (6)
14 Characteristic of James Bond’s martini (6,3,7)
18 Unroofed area enclosed by walls or
buildings (9) 21 Pam ___, popular poet (5)
22 Chile’s capital (8)
23 Maintenance of consistent detail
between film scenes (10)
27 Sequel to Trollope’s novel
The Warden (10,6)
28 1978-82 TV series starring Bill Bixby
and Lou Ferrigno (3,10,4)
29 German Renaissance artist famous for
his woodcuts (5)
31 Itsy Bitsy ___ Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,
old pop song (5,5)
36 Pasta in short fluted tubes (8)
37 WWII battle (2,7)
38 Early 19th-century Russian novelist
and dramatist (5)
42 Feelings of hostility (11) 44 Abdominal organs (10)
45 Common cinema name (5)
50 Ark of the ___, biblical
sacred container (8)
51 German spelling of Melania Trump’s maiden named used during her modelling career (6)
52 Sweet white French wine
from the Gironde (6)
53 Deadly disease of sheep,
cattle and humans (7)
57 Surname of Jackie Brown
star Pam (5)
58 ___ Baker, 1980s
Doctor Who actor (5)
60 French fashion house (4)
62 9th Greek letter (4)