TURN OVER FOR MORE751 Confidential piece of information (6)
7 Passenger’s price (4)
9 Concur (5)
11 Office equipment such as pens and
paper goods (10)
12 Flightless parrot endemic to
New Zealand (6)
14 Soft French cheese (4)
15 Area of mathematics concerned
with shapes (8)
18 Simian (3)
21 Fine brandy (6)
24 Distinctive impression or stamp
indicating where an product
was manufactured (8)
25 Actor’s signal (3)
26 Female deity who rides into battle with
Odin, and leads fallen warriors to
Valhalla in Norse mythology (8)
27 Line at which a cricket batter stands
to face the bowler (6)
28 Texture or pile of velvet or similar
plush fabrics (3)
29 Slender, pointed dagger which lends its
name to a style of shoe heel (8)
32 Well tended expanse of grass (4)
35 Popular culture genre associated
with rap music, break dancing and
urban graffiti (3-3)
38 Fashion accessories which also
serve to reduce daytime glare,
shades, colloquially (10)
40 Breed of dog originating in Wales
which includes the Cardigan and
Pembroke varieties (5)
41 Maritime unit of speed (4)
42 Useful device or utensil (6)2 Person responsible for preparing text
for publication (6)
3 American serpent with a tail which is
shaken to sound a warning (11)
4 Large, often unruly mass of people (6)
5 Trendy variety of cabbage (4)
6 Magistrate, colloquially (4)
7 Shark flesh prepared as food (5)
8 Boisterous escapade (4)
10 Simple poetic technique (5)
13 Unrefined mineral aggregate (3)
16 Snow leopard (5)
17 Artefact from a bygone era or culture (5)
19 Prince who, by his abduction of Helen of
Sparta, brought on the Trojan War (5)
20 Added to in order to enhance or enrich (11)
22 Port city in Japan (5)
23 Measure of gemstone weight
or gold purity (5)
24 Cardiac muscle (5)
28 – degree, utmost extent (3)
30 Precise and powerful beam of light
with numerous electronic and
medical applications (5)
31 Semi-fermented variety of Chinese tea (6)
33 Breathe with a rattling or whistling
sound due to constriction of the lungs
or larynx (6)
34 Round of drinks (5)
36 Metal-headed golf club used for
approach shots (4)
37 Compressed rubber disc used in
ice hockey (4)
39 French for black, used to describe
a 1930s-’40s genre of crime and
thriller movies (4)ACROSS DOWN
9 Equestrian sport where horse and rider
must clear a series of obstacles, often
with a time factor involved (11)
10 Reddish-brown mineral
based pigment (5)
11 Prehistoric remnant of an organism
which has been turned to stone (6)
14 Overnight journey, usually by plane (6)
15 Japanese art of paper-folding (7)
17 Medium sized wild cat of Europe and
North America with tufted ears (4)
19 Major modern art museum
in London (4)
22 Longest form of single note in music,
equal to four minims (5)
24 Excessively wordy (7)
26 River flowing from the Swiss Alps
to the Mediterranean, through
southeast France (5)
27 Greek wine, flavoured with resin
from the wooden barrels in which it is
fermented (7)
28 Elizabethan theatre associated with
William Shakespeare (5)
29 Former name of Thailand (4)
30 Exclusive English school (4)
32 Hamlet’s tragic romantic interest (7)
36 1978 high school musical film
starring Olivia Newton-John
and John Travolta (6)
37 Australian sheepdog breed, derived
from the Scottish collie (6)
40 Seance board taking its name from
French and German words for yes (5)
41 Sports car with a folding or
removable roof (11)1 1960 Hitchcock film with a famous
shower scene (6)
2 Creature, Canis lupus (4)
3 Membership fees, as for a union (4)
4 Iridescent gemstone (4)
5 The E in Einstein’s E=mc^2 equation (6)
6 Tribal symbol, often carved on a pole (5)
7 Casino croupier’s card holder (4)
8 Upper house of Parliament (6)
12 Style of pop music developed from
Jamaican reggae (3)
13 Travelling, usually in response to the
availability of work (9)
16 Tendency to remain still (7)
17 Oil extracted from wool (7)
18 Word repeated by the raven in Edgar
Allan Poe’s famous poem (9)
20 Mexican walking fish (7)
21 Cheap, often illicit booze (4)
22 Professional association for lawyers (3)
23 Poetic name for Ireland (4)
25 Calm area at the centre of a storm (3)
29 First biological child of Angelina Jolie
and Brad Pitt (6)
31 Spotted wild jungle cat of Central and
South America (6)
33 Femur and the pelvis joint (3)
34 Bruce Wayne’s butler (6)
35 One eschewing all foods and materials
involving animal products (5)
36 Dark and forboding (4)
37 Intoxicating Polynesian beverage (4)
38 Harp-like musical instrument (4)
39 Mediterranean island to which Napoleon
was exiled in 1814 (4)ACROSS DOWN
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