Daily Answers

1-across – The capital of the Bahamas : NASSAU

4-across – Salad vegetable whose seeds are an anise-flavoured 2 : FENNEL

9-across – Highest score given by financial credit ratings agencies? : TRIPLEA

10-across – A note worth two crotchets : MINIM

11-across – Anthony __, prime minister 1955-1957 : EDEN

12-across – A type of 2 obtained from cassia tree bark : CINNAMON

14-across – Seeds of the Piperaceae vine – also used to describe rents of nominal value : PEPPERCORNS

17-across – 2 from seeds used in Scandinavian Christmas baking : CARDAMOM

18-across – __ Stravinsky, composer : IGOR

21-across – __ Vanya, Chekhov play : UNCLE

22-across – Man brought back to life by Jesus, according to John : LAZARUS

23-across – The only one of the 2/19 whose name was a 2? : GINGER

24-across – Jay __, resident of East Egg? : GATSBY

1-down – 2 derived from the seeds of Myristica trees : NUTMEG

2-down – Music combo whose hits included Wannabe : SPICE

3-down – __ McBeal, TV series starring Calista Flockhart : ALLY

5-down – A district of London – and the capital of Alberta : EDMONTON

6-down – __ morris, a board game also known as cowboy checkers : NINEMAN

7-down – Liz __, Tina Fey’s character in 30 Rock : LEMON

8-down – Type of collage in which paper is mounted on a flat surface : PAPIERCOLLE

13-down – Musical instruction to a performer to play as they please : APIACERE

15-down – German footballer, once of Liverpool, now captain of Borussia Dortmund : EMRECAN

16-down – Bing __, singer : CROSBY

17-down – Connie __, US newsreader : CHUNG

19-down – See 2 : GIRLS

20-down – __ Pound, modernist poet : EZRA

5-across – Author of To Kill a Mockingbird : HARPER

7-across – Yvette __, home secretary : COOPER

8-across – See 5 : LEE

9-across – Eight sided polygons : OCTAGONS

10-across – See 17 : SISTERS

11-across – __ Simone, singer and civil rights activist : NINA

12-across – Harvey __, US politician portrayed by Sean Penn in an eponymous 2008 film : MILK

14-across – Ruth __, in whose name Lord’s cricket ground turns red once a year? : STRAUSS

16-across – Cartoon strip and character created by Reg Smythe : ANDYCAPP

17-across – Comedy series created by 3, based on the Belgian series Clan : BAD

19-across – The northernmost section of Australia’s Northern Territory : TOPEND

20-across – __-Romagna, region of Italy north of Tuscany : EMILIA

1-down – Aaron __, star of Breaking Bad : PAUL

2-down – The top sections of shoes : UPPERS

3-down – Sharon __, star of Pulling : HORGAN

4-down – Waylon __, country music singer : JENNINGS

6-down – US state, capital Providence : RHODEISLAND

7-down – TV series starring 3 and Rob Delaney : CATASTROPHE

10-down – South African hill from which a stand in Anfield gets its name : SPIONKOP

13-down – John Maynard __, economist : KEYNES

15-down – Region of Italy southeast of Tuscany : UMBRIA

18-down – The Irish parliament : DAIL

7-across – Thelma’s partner in crime? : LOUISE

8-across – The ruling planet of Aquarius : URANUS

9-across – Golda __, Israeli prime minister 1969 – 1974 : MEIR

10-across – Dan __, BBC Test Match Special commentator : NORCROSS

11-across – Freddie __, star of Queen : MERCURY

13-across – Delta of __, by Anaïs Nin : VENUS

15-across – The capital of Belarus : MINSK

17-across – Berber nomads of the Sahara : TUAREGS

20-across – Beef cured in brine and partially dried : PASTRAMI

21-across – __ Stone, star of La La Land : EMMA

23-across – Patty __, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 : HEARST

24-across – Author of Get Shorty and Out of Sight : ELMORE

1-down – Baroness __, life peer at the centre of the PPE Medpro controversy : MONE

2-down – Corrosive acid : NITRIC

3-down – See 24 Across : LEONARD

4-down – Brand of meat substitute : QUORN

5-down – J.M. __, creator of Peter Pan : BARRIE

6-down – City in the German Ruhr : DUISBURG

12-down – __ Stadium, Arsenal’s home ground : EMIRATES

14-down – The Moons of __, by Alice Munro : JUPITER

16-down – The Rings of __, by W.G. Sebald : SATURN

18-down – Covered in mucus discharged from the eyes? : RHEUMY

19-down – The Pillars of the __, by Ken Follett : EARTH

22-down – Whence came men, according to John Gray? : MARS

7-across – Pontius __, once governor of the province of Judea : PILATE

8-across – Ronald __, US president 1981-1989 : REAGAN

9-across – Mary __, Victorian writer known for her travels in west Africa : KINGSLEY

10-across – French soft cheese : BRIE

11-across – __ Guards, the Vatican armed force : SWISS

13-across – Name given to a UK government request that the media not report matters harmful to the national interest : DNOTICE

15-across – __ DuBois, character from A Streetcar Named Desire : BLANCHE

17-across – Dystopian Korean TV series : SQUID

19-across – The captain of the Pequod in Moby-Dick : AHAB

20-across – French bread, considered part of its intangible cultural heritage : BAGUETTE

23-across – __ Rains, actor who played Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca : CLAUDE

24-across – See 4 Down : MANTIS

1-down – 1944 novella by Colette : GIGI

2-down – River flowing through Patna : GANGES

3-down – Colin __, long suffering pianist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue : SELL

4-down – Insect known for its upright posture and folded ‘arms’ : PRAYING

5-down – See 18 : GAMBIT

6-down – Mexican musical ensemble : MARIACHI

12-down – Hilary Mantel’s novel about Thomas Cromwell : WOLFHALL

14-down – An unlicensed drinking place in South Africa and Ireland : SHEBEEN

16-down – Palestinian city in the West Bank : NABLUS

18-down – The __, Netflix series about a chess prodigy named Beth Harmon : QUEENS

21-down – See 17 Across : GAME

22-down – Make of German toy train : TRIX

1-across – Computer pioneer whose face appears on the English £50 note : ALAN

3-across – See 18 : COCHRANE

9-across – Indigenous name for Easter Island : RAPANUI

10-across – Bound bamboo stick used especially by police in South Asia : LATHI

11-across – The leading US intelligence agency : CIA

12-across – __ voting: concept in game and political theory in which a participant votes for a less preferred outcome : INSINCERE

13-across – See 1 : TURING

15-across – See 19 Down : HOPPER

18-across – Inventor who patented the first commercially successful dishwasher in 1886 : JOSEPHINE

19-across – The Russian military intelligence agency : GRU

20-across – __ Ramaphosa, South African president : CYRIL

21-across – Name given to the epoch following the chalcolithic and the bronze? : IRONAGE

22-across – Martin __, director of Raging Bull : SCORSESE

23-across – The king of the gods in Greek mythology : ZEUS

1-down – Early British computer brand – or a common fruit : APRICOT

2-down – The first letter of the Greek alphabet : ALPHA

4-down – Former name of the Indian state now known as Odisha : ORISSA

5-down – Simpsons character whose “law” has come to be “Think of the children”? : HELENLOVEJOY

6-down – Belgian city north of Brussels : ANTWERP

7-down – Short name for Rousseau’s treatise on education : EMILE

8-down – City that calls itself the Crossroads of America : INDIANAPOLIS

14-down – __ Salazar, Karen Walker’s maid in Will & Grace : ROSARIO

16-down – News agency founded in London in 1851 : REUTERS

17-down – The brightest star in the night sky : SIRIUS

18-down – Will __, England cricketer : JACKS

19-down – Computer pioneer and US Navy rear admiral for whom Yale named one of its colleges in 2017 : GRACE