£250 Crossword
ACROSS
1 Holders for bladed
weapons such as swords (9) 6 A sauce made from sieved tomatoes, often used in Italian cookery (7) 10 Former type of medicine of which opium was the main ingredient (8)
11 A scientist concerned with
the maintenance of health (9) 12 In anatomy, a technical
name for the navel (9)
13 A thin candle (5)
15 Edith _, 20th-century French national icon who sang Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (4)
16 _ Wray, actress best remembered for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong (3)
17 In Greek mythology, daughter
of Oedipus and Jocasta (8) 18 One of a family of characters in books and a comic strip by writer-illustrator Tove Jansson (6)
21 A manoeuvre or tactic;
stratagem or gambit (4) 23 Excessively sentimental,
sweet or pretty (4) 25 Examination of tissue from a living body to determine the cause or extent of a disease (6)
27 Agile, intelligent monkey inhabiting forests in South America (8)
28 A tall, hardy, widely
cultivated annual grass (3) 29 Reddish-brown oxide coating formed on iron or steel by the action of oxygen and moisture (4) 31 Leather finished with
a fine, velvet-like nap (5) 32 (Of animals) active at night (9) 34 Joseph Alois _, birth name
of Pope Benedict XVI (9)
35 A picture or sculpture of Christ
crowned with thorns (4,4) 36 Charlotte _, former cricketer; England’s all-time leading run-scorer in WODIS and Women’s Twenty20 Internationals (7)
37 The farthest or outermost point
or section of something (9)
DOWN
2 Lazy person whose recreation consists chiefly of watching television (5,6) 3 Stringed musical instrument with a long neck and circular drumlike body (5)
4 A port and resort in Northeast
Italy, on the Adriatic coast (6) 5 Xander _, American golfer who won both the 2024 PGA Championship and the 2024 Open Championship (10)
6 Young attendant of
a bride at a wedding (7)
7 The capital and largest
city of Chile (8)
8 A type of well, which uses pressure to force water to flow upwards (8) 9 Island in San Francisco Bay, California; site of a federal prison 1934-63 (8)
14 Richard _, British-italian architect who designed the Millennium Dome (6)
15 _ noir, variety of black grape grown for wine making (5) 19 Particular and
distinctive smells (6)
20 Leader of the Labour Party and the Opposition 1980-83 (7,4)
21 20th-century actor who starred in the 1932 Fritz Lang film (5,5)
22 A fungus used to make bread rise or to ferment beer, etc (5)
24 _ shelter, a small prefabricated air-raid shelter used during the Second World War (8)
25 Joy Adamson’s 1960 book about raising the lion cub Elsa (4,4) 26 Minute unicellular
organisms (8)
28 Goes back on
a promise (7)
30 The _, strait of the English Channel between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (6) 33 John _, English philosopher and physician; an early empiricist (5)