|
Across | 8 | | A spherical vault, or concave
ceiling, on the top of a building (6) |
| 9 | | A legendary early sixth-century
Danish king who appears in the
epic poems Beowulf and
Widsith (8) |
| 10 | | A tropical showy-flowered plant of
the mallow family, such as the
flowering maple (8) |
| 11 | | Charity formerly called the
National Marriage Guidance Council (6) |
| 12 | | ___ Davis, broadcaster who
replaced Jeremy Paxman in 2014 as
the main presenter of the BBC TV
programme Newsnight (4) |
| 13 | | A brand of orange-flavoured
liqueur produced in Angers,
France, since 1849 (9) |
| 15 | | Deficiency of red blood corpuscles
or haemoglobin, a condition marked
by paleness and weakness (7) |
| 16 | | A currency unit of Mexico, worth
one-hundredth of a peso (7) |
| 19 | | The capital city of 25 Across (9) |
| 21 | | The men's single-handed, cat-rigged Olympic class of sailing dinghy (4) |
| 22 | | Bela ___ , actor who died during
the production of Plan 9 from
Outer Space, often voted as
the worst film ever made (6) |
| 23 | | Any animal having only two toes,
fingers or claws (8) |
| 25 | | Country whose flag is a white star
and crescent on a dark green
background, with a broad white
stripe along the hoist (8) |
| 26 | | Thomas ___ , author of Le
Morte d'Arthur, a collection of Arthurian legends published in 1485 (6) |
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Down | 1 | | A British dish of leftover boiled
potatoes and cabbage mashed
together and fried (6,3,6) |
| 2 | | A rhyming slang term for
"face" (4,4) |
| 3 | | The first king of Israel in the
Old Testament (4) |
| 4 | | A warm dry wind blowing down the
eastern side of the Rocky Mountains (7) |
| 5 | | A small shallow dish or bowl made
in wood, ceramic, pewter or
silver, usually with a handle (9) |
| 6 | | Archaically, one of the four
bodily humours, also called yellow
bile (6) |
| 7 | | An island south of Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, once home to one of
the earliest known deaf communities (7,8) |
| 14 | | One who designs and applies facial
make-up (9) |
| 17 | | The
King's jester and friend of Stephano in Shakespeare's
The Tempest (8) |
| 18 | | Al ___ , member of the Beach Boys
who wrote the
children's book Sloop John B: A Pirate's
Tale in 2005 (7) |
| 20 | | In Greek mythology, a handsome
youth loved by Aphrodite and
Persephone (6) |
| 24 | | A former size of printing and
writing paper, approximately A2 (4) |
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