Complete Clue List
Across
1. Britain's highest military award for gallantry (8,5)
10. Ivy League university in Massachusetts (7)
11. John __, "Smiley's People" novelist (2,5)
12. Humble in manner, docile (4)
13. ___ Cara, starred as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 movie "Fame" (5)
14. Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister, appointed at the age of 24, William ___ (4)
17. Steve Currie the bass player with T. Rex was born in this Lincolnshire town (7)
18. Slender spear used by tribes in South Africa, and title of a novel by Wilbur Smith (7)
19. Surname of the author better known as Mark Twain (7)
22. "You Cannot Be Serious!" should lead you to this tennis star (7)
24. A sled for one or two people used in racing (4)
25. Queen Boudicca's British tribe that rebelled against the Romans in AD 60-61 (5)
26. Latin word meaning "let it stand" (4)
29. A framework used to support an elevated structure (7)
30. An athlete who competes without seeking payment (7)
31. A novel by William Bell based on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (9,4)
Down
2. A person living in Tel Aviv perhaps (7)
3. A bluish shade of green and also a small water bird (4)
4. A 1989 novel written by US author Ralph Peters (3,4)
5. Singer Brenda Lee was born here in 1944 (7)
6. Condoleezza ___, former US Secretary of State (4)
7. Sport of riding towards shore on the crest of waves (7)
8. Opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart shortly before his death in 1791 (3,5,5)
9. Modern-day US musical based on 'Romeo and Juliet' (4,4,5)
15. A painting by Edvard Munch finished in 1894 (5)
16. English county north-east of London (5)
20. "View of Toledo" was a landscape painting by this artist (2,5)
21. To achieve a desired goal (7)
22. Ordinary and lacking any real interest (7)
23. Forced withdrawal of troops from an enemy (7)
27. Torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt (4)
28. The softest known mineral (4)