Daily Mirror - 26.08.2019

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ACROSS

1 Commenced (5)

4 Talent (5)

7 Meadow (3)

9 Interfere (6)

11 Prose

narrative (4)

12 Tavern (3)

13 Herb (7)

15 Hereditary (7)

18 Fuss (3)

19 Shoe

fastening (4)

20 Stick together (6)

23 Amazement (3)

24 Squeeze (5)

25 Go in (5)

DOWN

1 Gambling

receipt (7,4)

2 Mountain (3)

3 Born as (3)

5 Help (5)

6 Not bespoke (5-2-4)

8 Region (4)

10 Males (3)

13 Domestic animal (3)

14 Fabled bird (3)

16 Mother-of-pearl (5)

17 Historical

Peruvian (4)

18 Playing card (3)

21 Be indebted to (3)

22 Chicken (3)

ACROSS

1 Started block,

say, inside (5)

4 Reasonable to

get large gift (5)

7 Field of pleasure (3)

9 Tear off with politician

and tinker (6)

11 Long story

about a gas (4)

12 Spinning around pub (3)

13 Herb used sparely (7)

15 Information to

cite about having

common origin (7)

18 Bother at a party (3)

19 Decorate with

alcohol? (4)

20 Stick firm to this place (6)

23 Wonder in drawer (3)

24 Reporters insist (5)

25 Come in from

barren terrain (5)

DOWN

1 Evidence of mistake by

turf accountant? (7,4)

2 A record peak (3)

3 Originally called in

one engineer (3)

5 Use a shroud, say (5)

6 Roadway tree ordered

off the shelf (5-2-4)

8 Part of the Far East (4)

10 People of Armenia (3)

13 Favourite dog, say (3)

14 Bird in frock (3)

16 Crane made of

shell material (5)

17 In and around

former empire (4)

18 Faced with expert (3)

21 Now employees

have to be obliged (3)

22 Bird in the nest (3)

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ACROSS

1 Nellie —, Australian

operatic soprano

who died in 1931 (5)

4 See 19 Across

10 and 17 19th-century

English stage actress

and playwright

whose works include

Francis the First (5,6)

11 Kriss —, 1990

Commonwealth

400m hurdles

gold medallist (7)

12 Small mainly

ground-dwelling bird

that shows a white

rump in flight (8)

13 Thomas William —,

English politician

and agriculturist born

in 1754 associated

with Holkham Hall,

Norfolk (4)

15 and 14 Down NHL

team; 2007

Stanley Cup Final

runners-up (6,8)

17 See 10 Across

19 and 4 2004 novel

by Andy McNab (4,5)

20 1931 film Western

starring Richard Dix

and Irene Dunne;

1932 Best Picture

Oscar winner (8)

23 1778 novel by

Frances Burney

subtitled The History

of a Young Lady’s

Entrance into

the World (7)

24 Narcotic drug extracted

from the unripe seeds

of a poppy (5)

25 Peter —, rugby union

lock; 1965 Scotland

Test debutant

against France (5)

26 Eighth son of Jacob

in the Bible; ancestor

of one of the 12 tribes

of Israel (5)

DOWN

2 Popular name for the

machine that randomly

selects winning

Premium Bonds

numbers in Britain (5)

3 1938 film drama

for which Spencer

Tracy won a Best

Actor in a Leading

Role Oscar (4,4)

5 Edward —, 19th-century

English humorist

noted for nonsense

poems such as

The Jumblies (4)

6 SI unit of electric

charge (7)

7 1992 film drama

starring Tom Cruise,

Jack Nicholson and

Demi Moore (1,3,4,3)

8 State bordering Saudi

Arabia; capital Doha (5)

9 2014 novel by

Nadine Dorries (4,3,4)

14 See 15 Across

16 and 22 1999-2006

US television drama

series that starred

Martin Sheen as

president Josiah

Bartlet (3,4,4)

18 City in Lombardy;

chief financial centre

of Italy (5)

21 European river

upon which Basel,

Strasbourg and

Cologne stand (5)

22 See 16 Down

ACROSS

1 Stumbles (5)

4 Perfect

happiness (5)

10 Door joint (5)

11 Alligator pear (7)

12 Contemplate

mentally (8)

13 Cease (4)

15 Counting frame (6)

17 Quest (6)

19 Quiet spell (4)

20 Woodland plant (8)

23 Italian wine (7)

24 Well done! (5)

25 Horizontal (5)

26 Indeed, really (5)

DOWN

2 Angry dispute (3-2)

3 Having great value (8)

5 Plunder (4)

6 Throw in various

random directions (7)

7 Filled to capacity (5-1-5)

8 Bread maker (5)

9 Fly in a complete

circle (4-3-4)

14 Twelfth month (8)

16 Hitherto

unsurpassed (3-4)

18 Threshing

implement (5)

21 Electronic message (1-4)

22 Leg joint (4)

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PUZZLES

BOX1: Lucy

Honeychurch is

the heroine of which

E M Forster novel?

A Passage to India (E)

Howards End (S)

A Room

With a View (R)

BOX2: Where

was cyclist

Bradley Wiggins

(pictured) born?

France (T)

England (O)

Belgium (I)

BOX3: In which

decade were zip

codes introduced

in the USA?

1940s (L)

1950s (Z)

1960s (M)

BOX4: How many

paintings make up

William Hogarth’s

A Rake’s Progress?

Four (N)

Six (P)

Eight (O)

BOX5: To which

country do swallows

migrate when

they leave Britain

in the winter?

Botswana (A)

South Africa (R)

Ghana (K)

BOX6: US actor

and director Jerome

Silberman is better

known by what name?

Steven Spielberg (E)

Gene Wilder (J)

Mel Brooks (B)

BOX7: Around how

many giant pandas

are thought to be

left in the wild?

1800 (U)

2200 (C)

3000 (S)

BOX8: For what

disease did

Dr Jonas Salk

develop a vaccine?

Smallpox (T)

Mumps (M)

Polio (I)

BOX9: Which

popular children’s

book animal was

created by

Eric Hill?

Spot (C)

Babar (A)

Paddington Bear (I)

BOX10: Joseph

Wiseman played

which James Bond

villain?

Auric Goldfinger (N)

Julius No (E)

Hugo Drax (U)

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