The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 402 – Sep 14 2018
Published in The Guardian Weekend. Tags: China, EBONY, London, STALIN.
Clues | Answers |
The nom de guerre of Joseph Dzhugashvili | STALIN |
Annual meteor shower | PERSEID |
Ben __, Washington Post editor during Watergate | BRADLEE |
City in Nevada – or Bill Clinton’s Attorney General? | RENO |
Former England cricketer and current Test Match Special pundit | EBONY |
George Bernard Shaw comedy set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War | ARMSANDTHEMAN |
Gillian __, artist whose statue of Millicent Fawcett stands in Parliament Square, London | WEARING |
Handwoven Hebridean cloth protected by a 1993 act of parliament | HARRIS |
La __, Michelangelo sculpture in St Peter’s Basilica | PIETA |
Name for what is now Thailand | SIAM |
Natural phenomenon also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya | VICTORIAFALLS |
Pale yellowish cloth originally from Nanjing, China | NANKEEN |
Reversible figured fabric, usually of silk or wool | DAMASK |
Russian city near the border with Belarus | SMOLENSK |
Russian city near the Urals – or a once popular hairstyle? | PERM |
Scene of a Canadian gold rush between 1896 and 1899 | KLONDIKE |
See 10 | RAINFORD |
See 10 Across | BRENT |
See 5 Down | TWEED |
The Iranian currency | RIAL |
Thomas __, Victorian fashion designer whose brand still bears his name | BURBERRY |
__-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party | WAFFEN |