FT Weekend Magazine - 10.19.2019

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Alltheanswers here

arelinked in some

way.Onceyou’ve

spottedthe link,any

youdidn’t knowthe

firsttimearound

shouldbecomeeasier.

1.Whichband’s

2006 debutbecame

Britain’s fastest

ever sellingdebut

album(basedon

first-week sales)?

2.Whichannual

arts eventthat

describesitself as

“not afestival”but

“a community”takes

placeinNevada’s

BlackRock Desert?

3.Thetwo-word

titleof which 1967

songby theBonzo

DogDoo-Dah Band

becameawidely

usedtermforBritish

musicandculture

in the1990s?

4.As whatis

AlecLeamasknown

in thetitleof a

Johnle Carrénovel?

5.Earlierthisyear,

whatdidThe Lion

King(right)overtake

to becomethe

highest-grossing

animatedfilmever?

6.In 2012,whatdid

Gmailovertaketo

becometheworld’s

mostpopular

emailprovider?

7.In “Ode to a

Nightingale”,

JohnKeats(above)

yearnsfor“abeaker

full of”...what?

8.What’sthe common

nameforsodium

bicarbonate?

9.What wasthe

nicknamefora

waitressinLyons’

teashops?

10.What’sthe

(predictable)

titleof the 2008

autobiographywhose

chaptersinclude

“Pit Village”, “A li,

theGreatest”and

“EmuandMegRyan”?

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Whoor whatdothefollowingpictures addupto?

TheCrossword

No459. Setby Aldhelm

ARoundon theLinks

by JamesWalton

ThePictureRound

by JamesWalton

Answerspage 10

ACROSS

1 Plushfabric(6)

4 Spotty (8)

9 Malice(5)

10 Outskirts (9)

11 Speculator(7)

12 Topofamine(7)

13 Ballerina’s skirt(4)

14 Improvedthe

quality(8)

17 Aggressive

force, fighting(8)

19 Farmbuilding(4)

22 Earned(5,2)

24 First,second,

forexample(7)

25 Showyflower(9)

26 Desertwatering

hole(5)

27 Homericepic(3,5)

28 Stateof

inactivity(6)

DOWN

1 Call aboutstab for

hard barbarian(8)

2 Themeforleft–vote

I’mchangingwithit (9)

3 Archdeacon,

in short, foundin

cathedral regularly(6)

5 Shrewdpair

occupiesdifferent

space,tostart

with(13)

6 Bigletter’s

excellent(7)

7 Lord’s foreigncity(5)

8 Dullpublicityfor

fabulouscreatures (6)

10 Stuffapiranha

withbitof luscious

pear that’sall

choppedup(13)

15 Identification of

song–one I’dput

upis at theend(9)

16 Breakdownof

broken nails,say(8)

18 Originalreceipt

forcoppers (3,4)

20 Sunnybay

aroundriver (6)

21 Expert’sadoctor

of computer

technology (6)

23 Card forpart

of thechurchfor

theaudience(5)

SolutiontoCrosswordNo 458

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/ALAMY

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