Complete Clue List
Across
1. Italian poet Petrarch's love and inspiration
4. Mr Hallward, the painter of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
7. Oliver Goldsmith wrote about one who lived in Wakefield
9. What happened in reverse to Benjamin Button in a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. 17th-century German polymath lampooned by Voltaire in "Candide"
12. Mr Butler, known for not giving a damn
14. Went down on his or her knees
16. Sanskrit for "disciple", describing Kim in Rudyard Kipling's eponymous novel
19. Zubin, famous conductor from Mumbai
22. William Golding's flies belong to this order
23. A wicked Shakespearean sister or a girl possessed by a demon
24. "Rage, rage against the ___ of the light", wrote Dylan Thomas
25. It is bluest in the title of a 1970 novel by Toni Morrison
26. Ms Doone, the heroine of a novel by R.D. Blackmore
27. Prospero's helper in Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
Down
1. Oliver Mellors is this to D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley
2. Relation of Vernon Dursley to Harry Potter
3. A malevolent spirit often encountered in "One Thousand and One Nights"
4. Unrhymed verse frequently used in English poetry
5. Roman poet Horace urged us to do this to the day
6. Alfred Lord Tennyson famously wrote about this Brigade
8. Region of Ancient Greece ravaged by the Calydonian Boar
10. Flavoured with a sharp, spicy rhizome
13. Interjection that expresses surprise or joy
15. "Salem's ___", a vampire novel by Stephen King
16. Charles Dickens' holiday song
17. First name shared by the authors of "The Raven" and the Tarzan books
18. Some people experience this in their sleep
19. Sorceress who kills her children in a tragedy by Euripides
20. Former French colony in the Caribbean
21. Satan is a fallen one in John Milton's "Paradise Lost"