|
Across | 6 | | The manager of Arsenal FC after
Terry Neill's departure in 1983 (3,4) |
| 7 | | A poisonous evergreen shrub,
Nerium oleander, with lance-
shaped leathery leaves and showy
red or white flowers (7) |
| 10 | | Sixteenth-century school in
Derbyshire whose alumni include
the author Roald Dahl (6) |
| 11 | | The palace of the Moorish kings of
Granada in Spain (8) |
| 12 | | A game played on a board with
balls and a cue or spring, the
object being to put the balls into
numbered holes or sections (9) |
| 14 | | ___ canem, Latin term for
'beware of the dog', a frequent
inscription on Roman thresholds (4) |
| 16 | | A village in the Scottish Borders
at the northern end of the Pennine
Way (4,7) |
| 19 | | Irish songstress who won the 1970
Eurovision Song Contest with
All Kinds of Everything (4) |
| 20 | | John ___ , Poet Laureate of the
United Kingdom from 1930 to 1967 (9) |
| 22 | | A toothless mammal of Asia and
Africa, also called the scaly
anteater (8) |
| 23 | | Fictional kingdom in the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien, founded by the
brothers Isildur and Anarion (6) |
| 25 | | Country of origin of the boxer
turned politician Vitali Klitschko (7) |
| 26 | | A highly contagious fever
occurring mainly in children,
characterised by eruptions of
small red spots on the skin (7) |
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Down | 1 | | Ornette ___ , jazz musician whose
album Sound Grammar
received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize
for Music (7) |
| 2 | | A small potato of poor quality
such as is given to swine (4) |
| 3 | | American TV series co-created by
David Lynch, starring Sheryl Lee
as homecoming queen Laura Palmer (4,5) |
| 4 | | Tony ___ , five-time winner of the
Wimbledon men's doubles title with John Newcombe (5) |
| 5 | | A very slender type of spaghetti,
literally 'little worms' in Italian (10) |
| 8 | | A multinational public transport
company, founded in Sunderland in
1938 as T. Cowie Ltd (6) |
| 9 | | French Post-Impressionist painter
regarded by Matisse and Picasso as
'the father of us all' (4,7) |
| 13 | | Actress who married the actor
Steve McQueen in 1973 (3,7) |
| 15 | | American rock band who released
the album Hotel California
in 1976 (3,6) |
| 17 | | A material of linen, cotton, silk
or wool with a reversible pattern
woven into it (6) |
| 18 | | Obsolete title for a medical
social worker attached to a
hospital (7) |
| 21 | | One of the vast steppes or plains
in the northern part of South
America (5) |
| 24 | | John ___ , architect who designed
the Brighton Pavilion (4) |
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