|
Across | 1 | | Ancient Greek female lyric poet
from Lesbos, most of whose works
have not survived (6) |
| 4 | | Mining town in south Wales which
hosted the first modern Eisteddfod
in 1861 (8) |
| 9 | | The ceremony of washing the feet
of the poor, in commemoration of
the act performed by Jesus in the
Bible, John 13 (6) |
| 10 | | Richard ___ , Labour MP who wrote
Diaries of a Cabinet
Minister about his time in
government from 1964 to 1970 (8) |
| 11 | | Fortification in East Sussex built
around 290 AD, known to the Romans
as Anderitum (8,6) |
| 13 | | A sheet of film on which many
pages of information are stored in
images of reduced size (10) |
| 14 | | ___ et orbi, a Latin term used in
papal blessings, addressing the
city and the world (4) |
| 16 | | Name of the most easterly point in
the British Isles, located in
Lowestoft, Suffolk (4) |
| 18 | | A hormone secreted to constrict
the arteries, thus increasing
blood pressure and stimulating the
heart (10) |
| 21 | | An old French epic poem, usually
celebrating the exploits of knights (7,2,5) |
| 23 | | Nickname of the World War I German
fighter pilot born Manfred
Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (3,5) |
| 24 | | Culinary style in which a dish is
prepared or served with a dressing
of burning liquor (6) |
| 25 | | Type of rowing by a single oarsman
in a racing shell (8) |
| 26 | | Originating in Japan, a dwarf tree
or shrub grown in a pot using
special methods of cultivation (6) |
|
Down | 1 | | An imaginary perfect drug
described in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World (4) |
| 2 | | Francis ___ , French composer who
wrote the comic opera Les
Mamelles de Tiresias, first
performed in 1947 (7) |
| 3 | | A small prickly-backed
insectivorous nocturnal mammal
which can roll up into a ball when
attacked (8) |
| 5 | | London-born Grand Prix motorcycle
road racer who married glamour
model Stephanie McLean in 1984 (5,6) |
| 6 | | Dizzee ___ , hip-hop artist who
won the Mercury Music Prize in
2003, aged 19 (6) |
| 7 | | An instrument that measures the
magnitude of an electric current (7) |
| 8 | | Comedian whose statue stands in
his home town of Morley, West
Yorkshire, where he won a talent
contest in 1936 (5,4) |
| 12 | | Football team who were promoted to
the Premier League in 1993 under
manager Glenn Hoddle (7,4) |
| 13 | | A winter constellation of the
northern sky, said to resemble a
unicorn (9) |
| 15 | | The closest Underground station to
the London Eye (8) |
| 17 | | ___ Ballet, New Romantic pop band
led by vocalist Tony Hadley (7) |
| 19 | | A narrow neck of land connecting
two larger portions, for example
at Corinth (7) |
| 20 | | Country whose flag depicts the
Star of David between two
horizontal stripes (6) |
| 22 | | Model of Skoda vehicle named after
a legendary mountain-dwelling beast (4) |
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