BIG X-WORD

Published date10 April 2024
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
DOWN 1 In alternative medicine, massage of the soles of the feet said to stimulate blood flow and ease nervous tension (11) 2 Thin flaky pastry whose name comes from the Greek for 'leaf' (4) 3 Largest constituent kingdom of the German Empire (1871-1918), dissolved in 1947 (7) 4 Run scored in cricket by a ball that hits part of the batsman's body other than the hand without touching the bat (3,3) 5 Island country in the W Pacific east of the Philippines; capital, Ngerulmud (5) 6 Geoffrey ___, Oscar-winning star of the 1996 film Shine (4) 7 Character who married the

Reverend Edward Casaubon in George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) (8,6) 8 Robert ___, English author of novels including 1934's I, Claudius (6) 11 Canadian-born British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister 1922-3 (6,5,3) 14 Edible nut of the hickory tree Carya illinoinensis, native to the southern US (5) 16 Second epoch of the Tertiary period, occurring between the Palaeocene and Oligocene from 56 to 33.9million years ago (6) 17 Ancient Greek city in the S...

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