Category: The Guardian – Weekend Crossword Answers
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1. 1.Historical area of Europe covering parts of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey
2. 2.Riverbank reinforcements, especially on the Mississippi
3. 3.Abbreviated term from Latin meaning ‘and others
4. 4.Type of bandit popular in arcades?
5. 5.City on the eastern edge of what was 7?
6. 6.Japanese rice wine
7. 7.Free-to-air light entertainment channel - or the foreign secretary?
8. 8.A decorative waterspout, especially in gothic buildings
9. 9.Promotional photograph used in an actor's CV
10. 10.Officer responsible for political party's discipline in parliament
11. 11.Type of music lacking a single key
12. 12.Speech in praise, especially of the recently deceased
13. 13.Margaret Atwood's 2019 Booker prize-winning novel
14. 14.The Biggest Little City in the World?
15. 15.Type of consonant produced when the tongue is pressed against the back of the upper teeth
16. 16.Bernadine __, joint winner of the 2019 Booker prize
17. 17.What Marlon James wrote a brief history of in his 2015 Booker Prize winning novel?
18. 18.What Julian Barnes had a sense of in his 2011 Booker prize-winning novel?
19. 19.The __, 1983 film by Lawrence Kasdan starring Glenn Close and Jeff Goldblum
20. 20.Russian city north-west of Moscow
21. 21.Hilary Mantel's 2009 Booker prize-winning novel
22. 22.City once known as Salisbury
23. 23.Mohamed __, controversial Tory party donor
24. 24.One of the two official languages of Pakistan
25. 25.Rhetorical device juxtaposing apparent contradictions
26. 26.Leeward island, capital Saint John's
27. 27.Fruit also known as the Jamaican tangelo
28. 28.Term that has become shorthand for a particular kind of progressive politics
29. 29.Sport also known as whiff-whaff
30. 30.River running through Dresden and Hamburg
31. 31.Orson __, director of Citizen Kane
32. 32.Type of play - like F. Scott Fitzgerald's definition of American lives?
33. 33.1979 musical movie choreographed by Twyla Tharp
34. 34.Classical form of Japanese theatre
35. 35.A type of game in which no wealth is created or destroyed?
36. 36."Hyperion to a __”; Hamlet's description of Claudius
37. 37.River running through Laos and Vietnam
38. 38.A citizen of Tallinn?
39. 39.Waterway constructed to bring water to London, running from Hertford to Sadler's Wells
40. 40.The capital of Thailand
41. 41.Where Suella Braverman went to set up a deal for processing asylum claims?
42. 42.Russian opposition leader who died in prison, 16 February 2024
43. 43.US medical drama starring Hugh Laurie
44. 44.Johann Sebastian __, composer
45. 45.Principality on the Riviera
46. 46.Country, capital Kampala
47. 47.Jackie __, martial arts movie star
48. 48.Its child has far to go?
49. 49.Hindu deity, an avatar of Vishnu
50. 50.Ethnic group largely found in Turkey, Syria and Iraq
51. 51.City on the site of ancient Thebes
52. 52.Chelsea __, source of many of the Wikileaks documents in 2010
53. 53.Shireen __, Palestinian-American journalist killed by Israeli forces in 2022
54. 54.Ian __, footballer and television presenter
55. 55.Frances __, data engineer whose memoir told how she 'blew the whistle on Facebook
56. 56.Nursery rhyme character whose cupboard was bare?
57. 57.Lithuania's second city
58. 58.Clive __, whistleblower who revealed details of the sinking of the General Belgrano in 1982
59. 59.Autoimmune disease also known as SLE
60. 60.The capital of the Bahamas
61. 61.Whistleblower who revealed global surveillance programmes of the US in 2013
62. 62.Petroleum product used in lighter fluids
63. 63.Annual college American football match in Florida
64. 64.Palestinian city north of Jerusalem
65. 65.River and estuary forming part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay
66. 66.__ Day, annual celebration on 8 March
67. 67.In Dungeons & Dragons, a character who has martial arts and spellcasting skills
68. 68.Nevada city, known for its casinos
69. 69.KwaZulu-__, South African province
70. 70.Welsh town - and book festival
71. 71.Mythical river of forgetfulness?
72. 72.A 1944 play by Sartre - or a leading publisher of crime fiction?
73. 73.Olympe __, author of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
74. 74.__ Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
75. 75.Author known for her biographies of Austen, Dickens and others
76. 76.The daughter of Oedipus - and subject of a play by Sophocles
77. 77.BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022
78. 78.The __ Patient, 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje
79. 79.Colloquial term for the security police in the former German Democratic Republic
80. 80.Mathematician and colleague of Charles Babbage
81. 81.Country bordering Eritrea and Somalia
82. 82.Kind of precipitation caused by excess sulphur dioxide or nitrogen oxide in the air
83. 83.The Welsh name for Anglesey
84. 84.Heron with white plumage
85. 85.Former unit of measurement, roughly the length of the human arm
86. 86.Malawi's commercial centre
87. 87.The elder son of Isaac in the Old Testament
88. 88.The __ 4D; Enid Blyton's detective group
89. 89.Rapper, otherwise known as Marshall Bruce Mathers III
90. 90.The capital of Guinea
91. 91.The 4D __, Agatha Christie story
92. 92.Type of roll, cheese or watch?
93. 93.Mixed rice dish originating in India
94. 94.Lung disease associated with shortness of breath
95. 95.Parisian cafe, long a centre of Left Bank intellectual life
96. 96.Natural fibre made from coconut husks
97. 97.Tudor warship which sank in the Solent in 1545
98. 98.A boy band - or the antepenultimate colour of the rainbow
99. 99.__ Bocelli, Italian tenor
100. 100.T.E. Lawrence memoir
101. 101.Constellation which includes Castor and Pollux
102. 102.Ferdinand __, the first European to sail to Asia via the Pacific
103. 103.North African desert
104. 104.__ Gandhi, Indian prime minister assassinated in 1984
105. 105.__ Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014)
106. 106.An ox, a fragrance or a tech entrepreneur?
107. 107.2003 film for which Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for best original screenplay
108. 108.Internal rules governing the management of a US corporation
109. 109.Sartre's L'Être et le néant in 8
110. 110.__ Fielding, co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off
111. 111.Dutch cheese, named for a town in northern Holland
112. 112.Comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
113. 113.__ Cymru, the Welsh parliament
114. 114.Citizens of northern Sri Lanka and southern India
115. 115.City in Essex on the Thames estuary
116. 116.US showman and circus promoter (1810-1891)
117. 117.Resort town on South Africa's Garden Route
118. 118.Supermarket chain founded by Karl and Theo Albrecht
119. 119.Wind instrument used in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
120. 120.Mary __, classical historian
121. 121.Character played by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix
122. 122.Area of London, site of the new US embassy
123. 123.The __, epic poem by Homer
124. 124.Musical instruction that notes should be played without any intervening silence
125. 125.Glam rock band fronted by Marc Bolan
126. 126.Charlie __, the narrator for much of Conrad's Heart of Darkness
127. 127.The Croatian capital
128. 128.The narrator of Rachel Cusk's novels, Outline, Transit and Kudos
129. 129.The Bosnian capital
130. 130.The narrator for much of Melville's Moby-Dick
131. 131.The __, borough of New York City
132. 132.The nickname of the narrator of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
133. 133.Challenge-response test used to determine whether a user is human
134. 134.Revolutionary doctrine created by Vladimir Ulyanov
135. 135.The type of acquaintance not to be forgotten on New Year's eve?
136. 136.Term used to describe poorer neighbourhoods in Brazil
137. 137.__ Hussain, former England cricket captain
138. 138.French city whose burghers were sculpted by Rodin?
139. 139.German river flowing through Dresden and Hamburg
140. 140.The spirit child narrator of Ben Okri's The Famished Road
141. 141.__ Malter, narrator of Chaim Potok's The Chosen
142. 142.Fictional county in which Thomas Hardy set several novels
143. 143.Indian state, capital Gandhinagar
144. 144.The aye-aye in Disney's Madagascar - or a novel by E.M. Forster, published posthumously
145. 145.Susie __, the narrator of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones
146. 146.Salad whose ingredients include romaine lettuce, anchovies and parmesan cheese
147. 147._ Caulfield, narrator of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
148. 148.Saleem __, narrator of Rushdie's Midnight's Children
149. 149.The narrator of Eco's The Name of the Rose
150. 150.Member of a British army parachute display team