|
Across | 1 | | Illinois-born Old West lawman and
gunfighter whose dispute with the
Clinton gang led to the shootout
at the OK Corral in 1881 (5,4) |
| 6 | | Edible burrowing marine mollusc
whose shell closes with vice-like
tightness (4) |
| 10 | | Another name for the game
"bingo" (5) |
| 11 | | A tax levied on the legal
recognition of certain documents,
its payment confirmed by an
impressed mark (5,4) |
| 12 | | Isla ___ , Scottish singer,
actress and former TV co-host,
born Isabella Dyce in 1952 (2,5) |
| 13 | | A fluty-toned wind instrument,
originally of terracotta, egg-
shaped, with a long mouthpiece (7) |
| 14 | | Literary character who said
"To lose one parent, Mr
Worthing, may be regarded as a
misfortune; to lose both looks
like carelessness" (4,9) |
| 17 | | German piano manufacturer whose
first factory was established in
Berlin in 1853 (4,9) |
| 21 | | In the Roman Catholic Church, a
member of the lowest of the minor
orders (7) |
| 22 | | Informal name for the Financial
Times Stock Exchange 100-Share
Index (7) |
| 24 | | A stadium containing a cycle-
racing track (9) |
| 25 | | The mother-in-law of Ruth in the
Old Testament (5) |
| 26 | | Immanuel ___ , German idealist
philosopher who wrote the
Critique of Pure Reason (4) |
| 27 | | ___ Water, the most westerly major
lake in Cumbria (9) |
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Down | 1 | | English novelist and journalist
who was appointed Professor of
Contemporary Thought at Brunel
University in 2012 (4,4) |
| 2 | | The dialect of ancient Greek used
in the capital (5) |
| 3 | | Irish philanthropist whose care
homes, by the time of his death in
1905, contained over 8,500
children in 96 locations (6,8) |
| 4 | | Country of origin of the 38th
Governor of California, Arnold
Schwarzenegger (7) |
| 5 | | Captain ___ , character played by
Frank Thornton in the TV sitcom
Are You Being Served? (7) |
| 7 | | Writer of the 1969 memoir As I
Walked Out One Midsummer
Morning (6,3) |
| 8 | | The international radiotelephonic
distress signal for ships and
aircraft, derived from the French
phrase 'help me' (6) |
| 9 | | An area of approved open-air
public oration, debate and
discussion, originally held in
part of Hyde Park, London (8,6) |
| 15 | | A two-day contest of ten track-and-
field events held at the Olympic
Games since 1912 (9) |
| 16 | | A fine-grained dark grey igneous
rock, of volcanic origin, found in
South America (8) |
| 18 | | Irish pop group formed by
entertainment manager Louis Walsh
in 1993, fronted by Ronan Keating (7) |
| 19 | | An alkaloid that occurs naturally
in coffee, tea, etc, acting as a
mild stimulant to the nervous
system (7) |
| 20 | | The Old Norse name for the city of
York, in North Yorkshire (6) |
| 23 | | Czech automobile manufacturing
company whose models of car
include Octavia, Roomster and Yeti (5) |
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