Daily Mirror - 30.08.2019

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ACROSS

3 Leave hurriedly (7)

7 Inebriated (6)

8 Burdensome (7)

9 Give temporarily (4)

11 Sunny (4)

12 Bid (5)

15 Animal fat (4)

16 Character (4)

17 Perfume

ingredient (5)

18 Supernatural

being (4)

19 Make tea (4)

21 Infectious disease (7)

22 N Irish county (6)

23 Perusing (7)

DOWN

1 Comply (4)

2 Miner (7)

3 Make

amends (5)

4 Friendship (4)

5 Unworried (8)

6 Lust (6)

10 Qualified (8)

11 Animal hair (3)

13 Ahead (7)

14 Biblical

priest (3)

15 Football (6)

18 Collision (5)

19 Dietary fibre (4)

20 Goals (4)

ACROSS

3 Bolt to fix Don’s cab (7)

7 Intoxicated

by British game (6)

8 Number turning

sour and heavy (7)

9 Left to finish loan (4)

11 Wonderful penalty (4)

12 Proposal to remove

front of strongbox (5)

15 Woman has time

for ingredient (4)

16 Part of the play? (4)

17 Gold, sir, returns

a fragrance (5)

18 Fairy of superiority (4)

19 Make beer of

calibre - weak (4)

21 Chorale performance

spreads rapidly! (7)

22 Martin travelling

round county (6)

23 Scanning a

Berkshire town (7)

DOWN

1 Honour your leader

and submit (4)

2 Dog right for an

underground worker (7)

3 Compensate by

sending a note (5)

4 Connection to a spy (4)

5 Race off, released,

nonchalant (8)

6 Wish to reside differently (6)

10 Deserving peerage,

in conclusion (8)

11 Refurbished with hair (3)

13 In favour of dependant

being bold (7)

14 Delighted with name (3)

15 Score badly with

catholic sport (6)

18 Called after

parking accident (5)

19 Barn designed for grain (4)

20 Targets, as I’m moving (4)

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ACROSS

1 1924 Broadway

musical by George

and Ira Gershwin

starring Fred and

Adele Astaire (4,2,4)

8 Bone that extends

from the shoulder

to the elbow (7)

9 Third planet

from the sun (5)

10 Lake —, reservoir in

Arizona and Nevada,

US, formed by the

Hoover Dam across

the Colorado River (4)

11 and 20 Director of

films Rounders and

Kill Me Again (4,4)

12 Cathedral city in

Cambridgeshire on

the River Ouse (3)

14 See 3 Down

15 6th-century BC

Greek lyric poetess

of Lesbos (6)

18 One of a race of

creatures in works

by J R R Tolkien used

as soldiers by Sauron

and Saruman (3)

20 See 11 Across

21 Mark on the floor

behind which a

darts player must

stand to throw (4)

23 Freshwater carnivorous

mammal with smooth

fur and webbed feet (5)

24 Greyish-brown

European moth with

a white mark on

the forewings (6,1)

25 The —, 2009 novel

by Ian Rankin (10)

DOWN

1 Carole —,

Best Actress in

a Leading Role

Oscar nominee for

My Man Godfrey (7)

2 Francoise —, winner

of the 1967 French

Championships

singles tennis title (4)

3 and 14 Across

MLB team; 2018

World Series

winners (6,3,3)

4 and 16 NFL team;

Super Bowl XXXI and

XLV winners (5,3,7)

5 Graeme —, cyclist;

author of 2003

autobiography

Flying Scotsman (5)

6 and 17 1906

autobiographical

work by Joseph

Conrad (3,6,2,3,3)

7 Rare greenish-yellow

mineral used as a

gemstone (11)

13 2001-06 England

football assistant

manager under

Sven-Goran

Eriksson (4,4)

16 See 4 Down

17 See 6 Down

19 Miguel —, WBO

Welterweight

champion from

February-November

2009 (5)

22 Elinor —,

author of novels

Three Weeks

and The Price of

Things (4)

ACROSS

1 Gogglebox (10)

8 Entrance area

in a house (7)

9 Up to the time of (5)

10 Weeps (4)

11 Elderly (4)

12 Whisky grain (3)

14 Lump of gold (6)

15 Japanese dwarf tree (6)

18 Facial twitch (3)

20 Overwhelming defeat (4)

21 Yearn (4)

23 Fragrance (5)

24 Former monetary

unit of Greece (7)

25 Funeral director (10)

DOWN

1 Boast (4,3)

2 Area of

mown grass (4)

3 Journey (6)

4 Basic unit of

an air force (8)

5 External (5)

6 Various unspecified

things (4,3,4)

7 Camping item (8,3)

13 Diminish (8)

16 Stifle (7)

17 Expert (6)

19 Monarch’s

headdress (5)

22 Financial institution (4)

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BOX1: What word in

mathematics is the

Latin for pebble?

Algebra (M)

Calculus (G)

Isosceles (B)

BOX2: Jim Carrey

(pictured) played

which famous Dr

Seuss character?

The Grinch (E)

The Cat in the Hat (S)

The Lorax (D)

BOX3: What

meteorological

phenomenon

shares its name

with a book by

D H Lawrence?

Rainbow (N)

Indian summer (I)

Hurricane (L)

BOX4: What is

the first event of a

men’s decathlon?

Discus throw (S)

Pole vault (A)

100m dash (E)

BOX5: Ursus

maritimus is

the scientific

name for which

type of bear?

Polar bear (G)

Brown bear (U)

Sun bear (O)

BOX6: The

Sierra Madre

Oriental is a

mountain range

in which country?

Argentina (J)

Mexico (R)

Chile (Y)

BOX7: Where would

a cowboy normally

put his chaps?

On his head (C)

On his hands (T)

On his legs (O)

BOX8: Le Maillon

Faible is the French

television version

of which British

TV show?

The Generation

Game (N)

The Weakest

Link (W)

The Crystal Maze (I)

BOX9: Who is

the patron saint

of Spain?

Saint James (T)

Saint Benedict (M)

Saint Peter (K)

BOX10: Which

of these fruits

shares its name

with something

superior or

desirable?

Mango (S)

Apricot (B)

Plum (O)

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