GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Digestive tract (10,5)

11 Garden butt contents (9)

15 Portuguese Cape of Good Hope explorer (5,2,4)

Family in Till Death Us Do Part (7) Doctor in A Passage to India (4) Scottish bacteriologist of the early 20th century (3,9,7) Trademark lock (5)

Best loved (9)

Czech composer (7)

Of a Christian Church emphasising the Holy Spirit (11) Shortest book in the Old Testament (7)

___ Kelly, Chicago character (5) Surname of Belgian tennis player who won seven Grand Slams (5) Ancient Roman December festival (10)

Having a porous structure (10) ___ Khan, cricketer turned politician (5)

Book associated with the character of Bridget Jones (5) Fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (7)

Prevent circulation of the blood supply (11)

House of Commons presiding officer (7)

Breakaway group of Austrian artists, founded in 1897 (9) Dave ___, Foo Fighters frontman (5)

One-act opera by Mascagni (10,9) Forename of Oliver Hardy’s partner (4)

Grooves (7)

Weather system with high barometric pressure at its centre (11)

Mixed fruit in jelly (9) Knighted character in Sheridan’s The Rivals (7,8)

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1 Bulgaria’s second city (7)

2 1916 DW Griffith epic (11) 16 17 18

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N American wild fowl (6,5) Hermia’s beloved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (8) Traditional Welsh tea bread (4,5) Port south-east of Naples (7) Soft green mineral based on copper carbonate (9) Grape variety (6)

Knitted diamond-shaped pattern (6)

Chris ___, actor who played Mr Big in Sex and the City (4) Australian actor in Hulk and Troy (4,4)

Somerset town south of Bath (5) Ancient Greek jar (7) Customer’s proof of purchase (7) 24 25

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Flowers’ pollen containers (7) Surname of the screen’s first James Bond (7) Composer of Manon, Werther and Thaïs (8)

Arm of the sea, epecially at a river mouth in Scotland (5) Moorish castle near Granada (8)

US state east of Illinois (7) Upper jaw (7) Fluctuation in the pitch of a note (7)

Actor who played Ricky Butcher in Eastenders (3,4) Liverpudlian who topped the charts in 1989 (5) Muhammad Ali’s former name (7,4)

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Belief that the existence of God is unknowable (11) Gilbert and Sullivan offering? (8)

Writer Hawthorne’s first name (9)

WWII Germany army (9) Lycra-like material (8) First name of singer and actress Ms Mccutcheon (7) Provider of old cinema newsreels (5)

___ Steadman, British actress (6)

Girls’ ___, 1977 Wings song (6)

Name that links actresses Bening and Crosbie (7) Japanese medicine box (4)