|
Across | 1 | | Especially in botany, having the
form of a strap or thong (6) |
| 4 | | In Greek Mythology, a swift-footed
maiden who offered to marry any
man who could defeat her in a race (8) |
| 9 | | ___ Checker, rock and roll singer
born Ernest Evans in Philadelphia,
USA, in 1941 (6) |
| 10 | | A sweet liqueur flavoured with
almonds, originally produced in
Saronno, Italy (8) |
| 11 | | Knighted actor who was appointed
Chancellor of Huddersfield
University in 2004 (7,7) |
| 13 | | Patriarch in the Book of Genesis
who reputedly lived for 969 years (10) |
| 14 | | Model of Renault car which
featured the characters of Nicole
and "Papa" in its TV
adverts (4) |
| 16 | | Mediterranean city, the birthplace
of Italian nationalist Giuseppe
Garibaldi (4) |
| 18 | | Bernardo ___ , director of the
1972 film Last Tango in
Paris (10) |
| 21 | | Football club, relegated from The
Football League in 2015, whose
home ground is Prenton Park (8,6) |
| 23 | | St ___ Mount, small tidal island
in Cornwall, linked to the town of
Marazion by a man-made granite
causeway (8) |
| 24 | | ___ Castle, a Gothic-style folly
built near Henbury, Bristol, in
1766 (6) |
| 25 | | Body of water which contains the
shipping forecast areas Dogger,
Forties and Fisher (5,3) |
| 26 | | A gymnasium and grove beside the
temple of Apollo at Athens, where
Aristotle taught (6) |
|
Down | 1 | | In rugby union, one of the two
players in the second row of the
scrum (4) |
| 2 | | In heraldry, rising as a bird (7) |
| 3 | | Roman emperor who ruled between
the reigns of Augustus and Caligula (8) |
| 5 | | A woollen cap with a broad
circular flat top, of Scottish
origin (3,1,7) |
| 6 | | Alan Jay ___ , lyricist and
librettist who wrote the musical
My Fair Lady with composer
Frederick Loewe (6) |
| 7 | | Sport in which England, coached by
Tracey Neville, won the gold medal
in the 2018 Commonwealth Games (7) |
| 8 | | Latin term meaning "with
stronger reason" (1,8) |
| 12 | | A dish of egg yolks, cream and
vanilla topped with caramelised
sugar (5,6) |
| 13 | | Type of three-stage
intercontinental ballistic missile (9) |
| 15 | | Small harbour village in north
Devon whose main street drops 400
feet in half a mile (8) |
| 17 | | Early 1990s ITV crime drama series
starring Clive Owen as Stephen
Crane / Derek Love (7) |
| 19 | | Relating to or resembling deer (7) |
| 20 | | Punctuation mark typographically
as wide as the lower-case letter 'm' (2,4) |
| 22 | | The smallest of the Channel
Islands open to the public (4) |
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