The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 624 – Dec 24 2022
The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 624 – Dec 24 2022
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A series of petitions during a church service | LITANY |
| Antediluvian patriarch who lived to be nearly 1000? | NOAH |
| Aromatic shrub sometimes used to signify remembrance | ROSEMARY |
| Arthur __, credited with creating the first crossword in 1913 | WYNNE |
| Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | KENKESEY |
| Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem about birds that ‘just wanna play reggae’ | TALKING |
| Country bordered by Nigeria and Togo | BENIN |
| England wicketkeeper | AMYJONES |
| French city on the Tarn, home to the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec | ALBI |
| Largest of the Canary Islands | TENERIFE |
| Larkin poem which begins, ‘I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.’ | AUBADE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Norway’s traditional gift to the UK each December? | CHRISTMASTREE |
| One knight of the Round Table | LANCELOT |
| Paradise, before the Fall? | EDEN |
| Proof-reader’s instruction to leave a text as it is | STET |
| See 3 | TURKEYS |
| Shaquille __, basketball star | ONEAL |
| The __, 1976 horror movie starring Lee Remick and Gregory Peck | OMEN |
| Time for 2 in France? | NOEL |
| Time for 2 in Portugal? | NATAL |
| What, according to Clement Clarke Moore, wasn’t stirring all through the house? | NOTEVENAMOUSE |
| Where Parisian intellectuals hang out? | LEFTBANK |
