PUZZLE TIME ANSWERS

Across

1 Baked turnover from Spanish cuisine (8)

6 Roman statesman and orator who wrote extensively on rhetoric and philosophy (6)

9 Ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Ironbridge (8,5)

10 The part of a sundial that casts a shadow (6)

11 Medieval Castilian knight played by Charlton Heston in an eponymous 1961 epic (2,3)

14 Elizabeth ____, author of Cranford and North and South (7)

16 ____ Fishing in the Yemen, 2007 novel by Paul Torday and subsequent film adaptation (6)

17 Jean-Luc ____, film director of the French New Wave movement (6)

Down

2 Medieval collection of Welsh tales of myth and legend (10)

3 A proposition that is assumed to be true in mathematics (5)

4 A moderately slow musical tempo (7)

5 The captain of the Pequod in Moby-Dick (4)

6 Chardonnay-producing wine region in the north of Burgundy (7)

7 A light horse-drawn carriage, or a convertible car (9)

8 North Wales seaside town from which the world’s first passenger hovercraft service took passengers to 19 Across (4)

12 Spanish mission where Davy Crockett died during a battle of the Texas Revolution (5)

Di culty: hard

19 Beach near Wallasey from which the world’s first passenger hovercraft service took passengers to 8 Down (7)

21 Highly venomous snake from sub-Saharan Africa (5)

22 Nut native to Brazil and popular in South Asian cuisine (6)

26 Town on the south east of the Wirral Peninsula where Cheshire Oaks is found (9,4)

27 James ____, the Man with the Golden Flute (6)

28 Naturally occurring volcanic glass that is usually black (8)

13 Red and green houseplant associated with Christmas in its native Mexico (10)

15 Body of water in the Orkney Islands (5,4)

18 Composer of Clair de Lune (7)

20 Bone disease caused by Vitamin-D deficiency (7)

23 Weapon suspended over Damocles’ head by a single hair (5)

24 Spartan queen seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan (4)

25 Currency of Chile (4)