ACROSS 1 Book by astronomer Carl Sagan adapted into a film starring Jodie Foster (7) 5 and 35 Journalist who became the first female presenter of the Today programme in the 1970s (5,6) 8 Peter –––, English snooker player, World Champion in 2002 (5) 13 A dab from the pollex (10) 14 Stadium in which Wolverhampton Wanderers play their home games (8) 15 Ivan –––, Russian scientist remembered for his investigations into conditioning (6) 16 ––– Fletcher, provider of Odd Odes on That’s Life in the 1970s (5) 17 ––– Loren, actress in The Millionairess and Two Women (6) 18 The ––– Explodes, Julian Cope’s band 1978-82 (8) 20 Italy’s third-longest river (5) 21 Kaiser Chief single from their album Yours Truly, Angry Mob (4) 23 Another name for a valet such as Jeeves in the P. G. Wodehouse stories (10,9) 27 Basic unit of matter, a nucleus surrounded by one or more electrons (4) 28 Mufasa’s son in The Lion King (5) 29 The ––– Variations, a harpsichord composition by J. S. Bach (8) 31 –––’s Creek, TV series starring Katie Holmes, which ran from 1998-2003 (6) 33 ––– Marsh, crime author whose books include Surfeit Of Lampreys (5) 35 See 5 37 One of Jason’s crew in the quest for the Golden Fleece (8) 38 Description of the Germanic tribes that founded England (5-5) 39 ––– Clare, Tess’s husband in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (5) 40 ––– Gang, a Steven Moffat TV show starring Julia Sawalha (5) 41 Dick–––, an able seaman in HMS Pinafore (7)

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2 John –––, Irish footballer who plays in defence for Sunderland (5) 3 Simon –––, Leslie Charteris’s literary hero The Saint (7) 4 Country made up of ten volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean (4,5) 6 Italian football club, the only one to have spent its entire history in Serie A (5) 7 Flight Of The –––, orchestral piece by Rimsky-Korsakov (9) 9 Napoleon –––, military leader who became Emperor of the French in 1804 (9) 10 Openings in the centres of domes seen in Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture (5) 11 District in the south east of London, birthplace of the artist Quentin Blake (6) 12 Play by Patrick Marber adapted as a Julia Roberts film in 2004 (6) 19 ––– horizon, the point of no return from the gravitational pull of a black hole (5) 20 The SI unit of magnetic flux density, symbol T (5) 22 Lionel –––, actor, dancer and TV presenter born Henry Lionel Ogus (5) 24 Arizona town, site of the Gunfight At The OK Corral (9) 25 Devon town that gives its name to a type of carpet (9) 26 ––– Line, a 1977 hit for Electric Light Orchestra (9) 28 Tell Me On A –––, an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of 1979 (6) 29 and 30 ––– Shaw, Irish playwright whose works include Man And Superman (6,7) 32 Part of the stage in front of the proscenium arch projecting into the auditorium (5) 34 Douglas –––, author of the Dirk Gently books (5) 36 Dense black wood from the Diospyros tree (5)