| CRYSTALGAYLE | Country singer fo r the 15th year |
| TOLKIEN | J R R - - -, The Hobbit author |
| FIGHTFORYOU | Song from Judas and the Black Messiah that won H.E.R. the 2021 Oscar for Best Original Song: 3 wds. |
| BLACKSEA | It is connected to the Mediterranean through r the Bosporus (5,3) |
| GIFTIE | "O wad some Pow'r the ___ gie us": Burns |
| SEMI | It's good r the long haul |
| TYSM | "u r the best!!" |
| BURLEYGRIFFIN | Created by the damming of the Molonglo River in 1963, the lake in the middle of Canberra is named fo |
| SATAN | From the Hebrew meaning "the enemy", what is one of the names given to the archangel that Michael fo |
| KHARTOUM | Sudanese city where General Gordon met a sticky end in the 1880s at the hand of the Mahdi and his fo |
| PSALM | Any of the 150 sacred songs, poems and prayers that constitute the book of the Old Testament that fo |
| ATTLEE | Prime minister from 1945-51 whose term saw the creation of the modern welfare state including the fo |
| ALBERTI | In 1470, he published Trattati in cifra ("Treatise on Ciphers"), in which he described the first cipher disk; he prescribed that the setting of the disk should be changed after enciphering three or fo |
| EMPIRE | The British ...... Games was the name used fo the first Commonwealth Games in 1930 (6) |
| CROWN | The first book in Paul Scott's Raj quartet series was also the title given to their dramatisation fo |
| HAVEALIEIN | Peter of the FO eating meat that is to be unlike the lark(4,1,3,2) |
| ENIWETOK | Atoll in the Pacific Ocean taken by the US from Japan in 1944 which later became a testing ground fo |
| SOFEW | "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why ___ engage in it": Henry Fo |
| NIGHT | Name given to the evening of April 30th, believed to be the night of a witches' sabbath in German fo |
| WALPURGIS | Name given to the evening of April 30th, believed to be the night of a witches' sabbath in German fo |
