|
Across | 1 | | ___ Theron, South African-American
actress who played Stella Bridger
in the 2003 remake of the film
The Italian Job (8) |
| 5 | | Tropical tree with a very thick
trunk, whose fruit has an edible
pulp called monkey bread (6) |
| 9 | | Robert ___ , English poet who
wrote The Pied Piper of
Hamelin (8) |
| 10 | | ___ Street, a 1959 semi-
autobiographical collection of
linked short stories by V. S.
Naipaul (6) |
| 12 | | American singer-songwriter who
sung "You deserve a break
today" in the advertising
campaign for McDonald's (5,7) |
| 15 | | The Muse of lyric love poetry (5) |
| 16 | | ___ Stones, a group of three
megalithic oolitic limestone
monuments near Long Compton,
Warwickshire (9) |
| 18 | | American state known as the
"Land of Ten Thousand
Lakes" (9) |
| 19 | | Aromatic flower-bud which yields
an essential oil used to relieve
abdominal pain and toothache, and
flavour food (5) |
| 20 | | A sweet liqueur with a chocolate
and vanilla flavour (5,2,5) |
| 24 | | Martin ___ , German theologian
whose list of Ninety-Five
Theses in 1517 incited the
Protestant Reformation (6) |
| 25 | | The quarter of the sky where the
sun, stars and planets set (8) |
| 26 | | Female forename in several
European countries, originally
meaning "born again" (6) |
| 27 | | Archetypal working-class male from
Southeast England with a large
disposable income but without
culture or taste (5,3) |
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Down | 1 | | Country of origin of Javier
Sotomayor, the only person to have
cleared eight feet in the high jump (4) |
| 2 | | An extension of a nerve cell or
neuron which transmits impulses
away from the cell (4) |
| 3 | | The easternmost of the Canary
Islands, whose capital is Arrecife (9) |
| 4 | | Fashion designer who founded the
Fashion and Textile Museum in
Bermondsey, London, in 2003 (6,6) |
| 6 | | 1979 film directed by Ridley
Scott, which was promoted by the
tagline "In space no one can
hear you scream" (5) |
| 7 | | Cocktail drink of curacao, vodka
with a dash of lemonade or fruit
cordial (4,6) |
| 8 | | The leading sheep of a flock (10) |
| 11 | | The First Lady of the Philippines
from 1965 to 1986, famed for her
collection of clothing, art and
jewellery (6,6) |
| 13 | | In architecture, bearing a
decoration reminiscent of a mass
of curly worms (10) |
| 14 | | Town in Cornwall which is divided
from its suburb Newport by the
river Kensey (10) |
| 17 | | A member of an Independent Order
founded in Salford in 1835, as
part of the British temperance
movement (9) |
| 21 | | Latin term for permission granted
by a bishop to a priest to move on
to another diocese (5) |
| 22 | | A raised horizontal bar, four
inches wide, on which gymnasts
perform balancing exercises (4) |
| 23 | | A small lightweight sub-machine
gun designed chiefly by Shepherd
and Turpin at Enfield (4) |
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