PUZZLE TIME

Across

7 Reaction force described by Newton’s third law (6)

9 Garry ____, chess grandmaster (8)

10 Traditional Shropshire dish of ham, apples, cider, potatoes and onion in a pastry case (6,3)

11 William ____, Swiss folk hero who inspired a Rossini opera (4)

12 Latin phrase meaning “behold the man” ascribed to Pontius Pilate during the trial of Jesus, and used by Nietzsche as the title of his autobiography (4,4)

13 Jean ____, French petty criminal and writer whose novels include The Thief’s Journal (5)

15 Danse ____, tone poem by Saint-Saëns (7)

17 George ____, MP for

Down

1 Small warbler that gets its name from its distinctive song (10)

2 Shrub with cones of purple flowers, commonly known as the butterfly bush (8)

3 Yorkshire town that’s home to the UK’s fourth-largest building society (7)

4 The rite of sprinkling holy water at the start of the Mass (8)

5 Cheshire constituency including Knutsford, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge (6)

6 & 20 Across The highest hill in the Clwydian Range (4,5)

8 Body fitness system that incorporates elements of taekwondo and boxing (3,2)

Sudoku

Di culty: hard

5 Down from 2001 to 2017 (7)

20 See 6 Down

22 Term for a landed estate in Spain, or a former Manchester nightclub (8)

24 & 27 Across Model village on the Wirral Peninsula containing

900 listed buildings (4,8)

26 Type of task that requires immense strength or e ort, such as slaying the Nemean lion (9)

27 See 24 Across

28 ____ McVey, MP for

5 Down from 2017 to present (6)

Answers

14 Elton John hit from 1972 (4,6)

16 Dietary fibre that the body can’t digest (8)

18 Form of musical theatre favoured by Gilbert and Sullivan (8)

19 One of the three theological virtues (7)

21 Resilience to cope with di culties (6)

23 Rudimentary, or the unprocessed form of petroleum (5)

25 The female reproductive cell (4)

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