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All the answers here

arelinked in some

way.Onceyou’ve

spottedthe link, any

youdidn’t knowthe

first time around

should becomeeasier.

1.Which band’s

2006 debut became

Britain’s fastest

ever selling debut

album (based on

first-week sales)?

2.Which annual

arts event that

describesitself as

“not afestival”but

“a community”takes

placeinNevada’s

BlackRock Desert?

3.Thetwo-word

titleof which 1967

songby theBonzo

DogDoo-Dah Band

becameawidely

used termforBritish

music and culture

in the1990s?

4.As what is

AlecLeamas known

in the title of a

John leCarrénovel?

5.Earlier thisyear,

what didThe Lion

King(right)overtake

to becomethe

highest-grossing

animated filmever?

6.In 2012,what did

Gmailovertaketo

become theworld’s

most popular

email provider?

7.In “Ode to a

Nightingale”,

JohnKeats(above)

yearnsfor“abeaker

fullof”...what?

8.What’sthe common

nameforsodium

bicarbonate?

9.Whatwasthe

nicknamefora

waitressinLyons’

teashops?

10.What’sthe

(predictable)

title of the 2008

autobiographywhose

chapters include

“Pit Village”,“A li,

the Greatest” and

“Emu andMegRyan”?

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Who or what do thefollowing pictures add upto?

The Crossword

No459. Setby Aldhelm

ARound on theLinks

by JamesWalton

The PictureRound

by JamesWalton

Answers page 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 Farm building(4)

22 Earned(5,2)

24 First, second,

forexample(7)

25 Showyflower(9)

26 Desertwatering

hole(5)

27 Homeric epic (3,5)

28 State of

inactivity (6)

DOWN

1 Call about stabfor

hard barbarian(8)

2 Themeforleft–vote

I’mchanging with it (9)

3 Archdeacon,

in short,found in

cathedralregularly (6)

5 Shrewdpair

occupiesdifferent

space,tostart

with(13)

6 Big letter’s

excellent(7)

7 Lord’s foreign city(5)

8 Dull publicityfor

fabulous creatures (6)

10 Stuffapiranha

with bit of luscious

pear that’sall

chopped up(13)

15 Identification of

song–one I’dput

up is at the end (9)

16 Breakdownof

broken nails, say(8)

18 Originalreceipt

forcoppers (3,4)

20 Sunnybay

around river (6)

21 Expert’sadoctor

of computer

technology(6)

23 Card forpart

of thechurchfor

theaudience(5)

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