The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 379 – Apr 6 2018
Published in The Guardian Weekend. Tags: AFRO, ANDES, BBC, Iran, London, South America, US.
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1996 BBC series starring Daniel Craig, Gina McKee, Mark Strong and Christopher Eccleston (3,7,2,3,5) |
OURFRIENDS |
2011 Irish comedy starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, |
THEGUARD |
A hairstyle – and a Dizzy Gillespie album from 1954 |
AFRO |
A town in east London or a dock on the Mersey? |
CANNING |
Alloy of iron and carbon? |
STEEL |
Annual address by the US president to a joint session of Congress |
STATEOF |
Annual prize for political writing, founded by Bernard Crick |
ORWELL |
Branded meat substitute whose publicity has featured Ryan Giggs, Sally Gunnell and Mo Farah |
QUORN |
Harold __, Nobel Prize-winning playwright |
PINTER |
Italian dish comprising veal shanks braised with vegetables |
OSSOBUCO |
Legal drama starring whose cast included David Schwimmer, William H. Macy and Lucy Liu |
LA |
Mountains forming the spine of South America |
ANDES |
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Restaurants said to get their name from the Russian for ‘quick’ |
BISTROS |
Scorsese’s biopic of Jake LaMotta |
RAGINGBULL |
See 11 |
THEUNION |
See 22 |
LAW |
See 7 |
THENORTH |
See 7 |
IN |
The capital of Iran |
TEHRAN |
The sixth sign of the Zodiac |
VIRGO |
UN agency dealing with labour issues |
ILO |
Vladimir __, author of The Luzhin Defence (1930) |
NABOKOV |
Wolf in Spanish |
LOBO |
__ Stevenson, star of Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) |
JULIET |