Category: The Guardian – Weekend Crossword Answers
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- 1.City once known as Salisbury
- 2.Mohamed __, controversial Tory party donor
- 3.One of the two official languages of Pakistan
- 4.Rhetorical device juxtaposing apparent contradictions
- 5.Leeward island, capital Saint John's
- 6.Fruit also known as the Jamaican tangelo
- 7.Term that has become shorthand for a particular kind of progressive politics
- 8.Sport also known as whiff-whaff
- 9.River running through Dresden and Hamburg
- 10.Orson __, director of Citizen Kane
- 11.Type of play - like F. Scott Fitzgerald's definition of American lives?
- 12.1979 musical movie choreographed by Twyla Tharp
- 13.Classical form of Japanese theatre
- 14.A type of game in which no wealth is created or destroyed?
- 15."Hyperion to a __”; Hamlet's description of Claudius
- 16.River running through Laos and Vietnam
- 17.A citizen of Tallinn?
- 18.Waterway constructed to bring water to London, running from Hertford to Sadler's Wells
- 19.The capital of Thailand
- 20.Where Suella Braverman went to set up a deal for processing asylum claims?
- 21.Russian opposition leader who died in prison, 16 February 2024
- 22.US medical drama starring Hugh Laurie
- 23.Johann Sebastian __, composer
- 24.Principality on the Riviera
- 25.Country, capital Kampala
- 26.Jackie __, martial arts movie star
- 27.Its child has far to go?
- 28.Hindu deity, an avatar of Vishnu
- 29.Ethnic group largely found in Turkey, Syria and Iraq
- 30.City on the site of ancient Thebes
- 31.Chelsea __, source of many of the Wikileaks documents in 2010
- 32.Shireen __, Palestinian-American journalist killed by Israeli forces in 2022
- 33.Ian __, footballer and television presenter
- 34.Frances __, data engineer whose memoir told how she 'blew the whistle on Facebook
- 35.Nursery rhyme character whose cupboard was bare?
- 36.Lithuania's second city
- 37.Clive __, whistleblower who revealed details of the sinking of the General Belgrano in 1982
- 38.Autoimmune disease also known as SLE
- 39.The capital of the Bahamas
- 40.Whistleblower who revealed global surveillance programmes of the US in 2013
- 41.Petroleum product used in lighter fluids
- 42.Annual college American football match in Florida
- 43.Palestinian city north of Jerusalem
- 44.River and estuary forming part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay
- 45.__ Day, annual celebration on 8 March
- 46.In Dungeons & Dragons, a character who has martial arts and spellcasting skills
- 47.Nevada city, known for its casinos
- 48.KwaZulu-__, South African province
- 49.Welsh town - and book festival
- 50.Mythical river of forgetfulness?
- 51.A 1944 play by Sartre - or a leading publisher of crime fiction?
- 52.Olympe __, author of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
- 53.__ Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- 54.Author known for her biographies of Austen, Dickens and others
- 55.The daughter of Oedipus - and subject of a play by Sophocles
- 56.BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022
- 57.The __ Patient, 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje
- 58.Colloquial term for the security police in the former German Democratic Republic
- 59.Mathematician and colleague of Charles Babbage
- 60.Country bordering Eritrea and Somalia
- 61.Kind of precipitation caused by excess sulphur dioxide or nitrogen oxide in the air
- 62.The Welsh name for Anglesey
- 63.Heron with white plumage
- 64.Former unit of measurement, roughly the length of the human arm
- 65.Malawi's commercial centre
- 66.The elder son of Isaac in the Old Testament
- 67.The __ 4D; Enid Blyton's detective group
- 68.Rapper, otherwise known as Marshall Bruce Mathers III
- 69.The capital of Guinea
- 70.The 4D __, Agatha Christie story
- 71.Type of roll, cheese or watch?
- 72.Mixed rice dish originating in India
- 73.Lung disease associated with shortness of breath
- 74.Parisian cafe, long a centre of Left Bank intellectual life
- 75.Natural fibre made from coconut husks
- 76.Tudor warship which sank in the Solent in 1545
- 77.A boy band - or the antepenultimate colour of the rainbow
- 78.__ Bocelli, Italian tenor
- 79.T.E. Lawrence memoir
- 80.Constellation which includes Castor and Pollux
- 81.Ferdinand __, the first European to sail to Asia via the Pacific
- 82.North African desert
- 83.__ Gandhi, Indian prime minister assassinated in 1984
- 84.__ Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014)
- 85.An ox, a fragrance or a tech entrepreneur?
- 86.2003 film for which Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for best original screenplay
- 87.Internal rules governing the management of a US corporation
- 88.Sartre's L'Être et le néant in 8
- 89.__ Fielding, co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off
- 90.Dutch cheese, named for a town in northern Holland
- 91.Comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
- 92.__ Cymru, the Welsh parliament
- 93.Citizens of northern Sri Lanka and southern India
- 94.City in Essex on the Thames estuary
- 95.US showman and circus promoter (1810-1891)
- 96.Resort town on South Africa's Garden Route
- 97.Supermarket chain founded by Karl and Theo Albrecht
- 98.Wind instrument used in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
- 99.Mary __, classical historian
- 100.Character played by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix
- 101.Area of London, site of the new US embassy
- 102.The __, epic poem by Homer
- 103.Musical instruction that notes should be played without any intervening silence
- 104.Glam rock band fronted by Marc Bolan
- 105.Charlie __, the narrator for much of Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- 106.The Croatian capital
- 107.The narrator of Rachel Cusk's novels, Outline, Transit and Kudos
- 108.The Bosnian capital
- 109.The narrator for much of Melville's Moby-Dick
- 110.The __, borough of New York City
- 111.The nickname of the narrator of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
- 112.Challenge-response test used to determine whether a user is human
- 113.Revolutionary doctrine created by Vladimir Ulyanov
- 114.The type of acquaintance not to be forgotten on New Year's eve?
- 115.Term used to describe poorer neighbourhoods in Brazil
- 116.__ Hussain, former England cricket captain
- 117.French city whose burghers were sculpted by Rodin?
- 118.German river flowing through Dresden and Hamburg
- 119.The spirit child narrator of Ben Okri's The Famished Road
- 120.__ Malter, narrator of Chaim Potok's The Chosen
- 121.Fictional county in which Thomas Hardy set several novels
- 122.Indian state, capital Gandhinagar
- 123.The aye-aye in Disney's Madagascar - or a novel by E.M. Forster, published posthumously
- 124.Susie __, the narrator of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones
- 125.Salad whose ingredients include romaine lettuce, anchovies and parmesan cheese
- 126._ Caulfield, narrator of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
- 127.Saleem __, narrator of Rushdie's Midnight's Children
- 128.The narrator of Eco's The Name of the Rose
- 129.Member of a British army parachute display team
- 130.Another name for the Jamaican tangelo
- 131.Sky News presenter
- 132.What the French might shout for "stop thief!"
- 133.Greenpeace ship sunk by French intelligence officers in Auckland in 1985
- 134.Dutch city, home to the Cathedral of Saint Bavo
- 135.Konrad __, West German chancellor, 1949-1963
- 136.__ Chapman, Russian spy deported from the US in 2010
- 137.Nickname given to Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)
- 138.Storm that brought flooding to Britain in the first week of 2024
- 139.The __, 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, starring Leonardo DiCaprio
- 140.BBC newsreader and host of Mastermind
- 141.Harvard president forced to stand down in January 2024
- 142.Moshe __, Israeli defence minister during the 1967 six-day war
- 143.Chocolate cake filled with caramel and cream
- 144.__ Sea, section of the Mediterranean between Greece and Southern Italy
- 145.__ transformation; in geometry this maintains the distance between every pair of points
- 146.Writer and star of the BBC's 2004 hit, Nighty Night
- 147.Tartary oxen
- 148.Russian newspaper for which Anna Politkovskaya wrote before she was murdered in 2006
- 149.Andi __, children's TV presenter on BBC and ITV
- 150.London street joining Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace