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Themed 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By stellam
Date: 12 Jul 2009 Title: Austen Themed Croosword July 09
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Across
1. Juvenilia story Lesley (6)
4. A Comedy in two acts - Juvenilia (8)
9. French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature (5)
10. Henry VIII changed the course of English history when he asked the Roman Catholic church for this legal procedure unheard of at that time for his first wife, Catherine of Aragon this covered by Jane Austen's History of England (9)
11. Scotttish for word - easy (4)
12. afflicted with aches (4)
13. Elfrida De _____Barrow 1884-1970 formed what in Georgia? (5)
15. In 1790, Some forms of bicorne were designed to be folded flat, so that they could be conveniently tucked underneath the arm when not being worn. A bicorne of this style is also known as a_______-de-bras (7)
16. Jane Austen was born December 16th, 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, England and that is near what place? (4)
19. Whereas in this sense Radcliffe is a Romantic, Austen seems to ____the gap between Neoclassicism and Romanticism (4)
20. A builder en francaise (7)
23. verb to remove air from (5)
24. Angels from the Realms of Glory was written by James Montgomery, for his Sheffield newspaper, the ____, on Christmas Eve, 1816. The tune, Regent Square, was written in 1867 (4)
25. ?That redingote Miss Bates is wearing isn?t new, it?s her old one _____? (4)
27. EDWARD Excellent. I wish to check the position of the Nile. EDWARD appears to be utterly sincere. EDWARD My sister says it is in South America. From under the table we hear a snort. ELINOR looks at him in realisation. ELINOR Oh! No, no indeed. She is quite wrong. For I believe it is in - in Belgium. EDWARD Belgium? Surely not. You must be thinking of the Volga. MARGARET (from under the table) The Volga? ELINOR Of course. The Volga, which, as you know, starts in EDWARD Vladivostok, and ends in ELINOR St Albans. EDWARD Indeed. Where the coffee beans come from . They are having such a good time that it is rather a pity the game is stopped by the appearance from under the table of MARGARET who reveals herself to be a dishevelled girl of eleven. She hauls the atlas up and plonks it in front of EDWARD. MARGARET The source of the Nile is in _________ (9)
28. To Make Tunbridge Cakes you need this (5)
29. Jane Austen also loved nearby Dawlish, which also gets a mention in Sense and Sensibility this is nearby. (8)
30. Sheridan produced play inspired The Mystery from Jane's earlier wroks Short Plays (6)
Down
1. Military Rank (8)
2. Sicut noxius est qui mittit lanceas et______et mortem - Latin Vulgate (8)
3. knowledge gained through study or experience (4)
5. Sir George and Lady Harcourt were in this Jane Austen short novel (13)
6. Kintbury, Jane Austen often stayed here with here sister Cassandra as guests of the Rev Thomas Fowle and his wife Jane where she might have found this variety of herb a natural sedative (10)
7. A favourite author of Jane's (6)
8. First Impressions and Susan were many of the first of these for Jane's books (6)
10. Captain Wentworth had this to accompany his military uniforms (13)
14. Fanny Price's Portsmouth Point by Thomas _______, ca. 1811 (10)
17. Any plant of the Lily family or order (8)
18. Juvenilia _____ and Elfrida (8)
21. The Rev. Brook ______ Bridges, another paramour of Jane Austen? (6)
22. Jane's Uncle, Francis Austen, a very wealthy _____who paid for her father George's education at Tonbridge School and St. John's College, Oxford_ (6)
26. Darcy loved Elizabeth from ..... (4)
