Complete Clue List
Across
1. What was the name of the $5.98billion scheme approved by the US Senate on 23 October 1941? (3 words)
9. What was the surname of the much-loved 'Coronation Street' characters Stan and Hilda?
10. What is meant when a Cockney talks about an 'old joanna'?
11. What do stitchers call the threads they use for embroidery and cross stitch work?
13. What word of celtic origin describes a rocky hill?
14. What is the Spanish word which equates to the English 'Mister'?
15. Who became the British Prime Minister in May 1940?
17. Who immortalized the fictional French policeman, Clouseau?
18. What was abolished in the USA with the ratification of the thirteenth amendment?
20. Where did the nuclear disaster of April 1986 take place?
21. What word means one is on the run from the law?
23. What letters are used on a car's number plate to indicate diplomatic status in the USA?
24. What word means to work out a problem to a conclusion?
25. What was the name of the US heavyweight boxing champion who served three years in prison?
27. According to Lindy Chamberlain, what killed baby Azaria?
28. What name is given to the genre which includes artists such as Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Millais?
Down
2. Which sea duck of the Somateria family gives its name to a duvet-type covering?
3. Which of the 'Little Men' took the blame for stealing money in Louisa May Alcott's novel?
4. How would you describe a wresting hold where an upper limb is held immobile?
5. Which bread roll is soft and yeasty?
6. Which Canadian river is 755 miles long and runs through Yukon Territory and British Columbia?
7. Who was the Roman procurator who condemned Jesus to the cross? (2 words)
8. Who was the eldest son in the long-running US programme set in the depression? (2 words)
11. What rodents can be described as fox, grey, red or tree? (plural)
12. What word could describe any liquid, a property which is associated with milk in a modern proverb?
15. What stomach complaint is suffered by babies?
16. Which French traitor was born in Auvergnac on 28 June 1883?
19. Which language is the second most popular on earth?
22. What word would aptly describe Ebenezer Scrooge?
23. How do Americans spell the word which describes a ring-shaped deep-fried dough-cake?
26. What was the name of Clark's Kryptonian enemy in 'The New Adventures of Superman'?
27. Who was the elder brother in the UK sitcom 'Only Fools and Horses'?