|
Across | 1 | | An arm of the Mediterranean
between northwest Italy and Corsica (8,3) |
| 7 | | A triangular sail stretched in
front of the foremast in a ship (3) |
| 9 | | Pungent, biting, caustic (5) |
| 10 | | Novel first published in 1847,
written under the pen name of
Acton Bell (5,4) |
| 11 | | Suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, named
after the Classical region, the
site of Josiah Wedgwood's residential Hall (7) |
| 12 | | Great ___ , iron steamship
designed by Brunel, the largest
ship ever built when launched in
1858 (7) |
| 13 | | Geological period between the
Cambrian and Silurian eras (10) |
| 15 | | Island in the Inner Hebrides of
Scotland, whose largest settlement
is Portree (4) |
| 17 | | Alexander ___ , English author who
wrote Ode on Solitude when
aged twelve (4) |
| 18 | | Garden plant of the buttercup
family, with tall showy spikes of
blue flowers (10) |
| 21 | | Amelia ___ , the first woman to
fly solo non-stop across the
Atlantic Ocean (7) |
| 23 | | The coffee bean produced from the
shrub Coffea canephora,
grown especially in East Africa (7) |
| 24 | | Canadian musician who recorded the
1970 album After the Gold
Rush (4,5) |
| 25 | | Mary ___ , historian who wrote the
book Laughter in Ancient Rome:
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking
Up (5) |
| 26 | | Large horned antelope with a
tufted tail, also called the
wildebeest (3) |
| 27 | | A white Rhine wine produced near
Mainz, Germany (11) |
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Down | 1 | | A cattle-herder or cowboy in the
steppes of western Venezuela and
eastern Colombia (7) |
| 2 | | Actor who played the title role in
the 1990 film Cyrano de
Bergerac (6,9) |
| 3 | | Steve ___ , the Sports Personality
of the Year in 2000 (8) |
| 4 | | A hurtling mass of snow, with ice
and rock, descending a mountainside (9) |
| 5 | | John Millington ___ , Irish writer
who wrote the play The Playboy
of the Western World, first
performed in 1907 (5) |
| 6 | | Italian town where St Francis
founded the Franciscan religious
order in 1209 (6) |
| 7 | | Striker for Tottenham Hotspur in
the 1990s who later managed
Germany's national football team (6,9) |
| 8 | | ___ Knowles, former member of the
girl group Destiny's Child, who married rapper Jay-Z in 2008 (7) |
| 14 | | Plant with thin green edible
shoots, whose first pickings are
known as sprue (9) |
| 16 | | African country whose largest
natural reserve is Hwange National
Park (8) |
| 17 | | Obsolete monetary unit of Germany,
worth one-hundredth of a mark (7) |
| 19 | | An intricate decorative fret
pattern, especially in ancient
Greek architecture (7) |
| 20 | | A tropical Indian fig tree with
vast rooting branches (6) |
| 22 | | A brownish-grey colour, the French
word for 'mole' (5) |
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