The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 486 - Apr 25 2020 Crossword Answer

The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 486 - Apr 25 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
River running through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam	MEKONG
Sara __, author of the V I Warshawski novels	PARETSKY
See 11 Across	OFTIME
See 5	TEY
See 7	MCDERMID
Sir Salman __, author of The Satanic Verses	RUSHDIE
Tent from the central Asian steppe	YURT
The capital of Paraguay	ASUNCION
The __, crime thriller in which Richard III is exonerated of the murders of his nephews	DAUGHTER
The __, racing driver in Top Gear?	STIG
Umberto __, author of The Name of the Rose	ECO
Victor __, author of Les Misérables	HUGO

Clues	Answers
'And we are here as on a __ plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight' Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach	DARKLING
1855 poem and collection of poems by Tennyson	MAUD
__, vita brevis?	ARSLONGA
Crime writer known for her novels featuring Dr Tony Hill	VAL
Former railway franchise on the East Coast Main Line.	GNER
Greek primordial deity, the ancestral mother of all life	GAIA
Increasingly archaic name for the Republican Party	GOP
Oil producers' forum formed in 1960	OPEC
Ollie __, England batter	POPE
One of the constituent colleges of the University of London	QUEENMARY
Philosopher and mathematician in classical times, murdered by a mob	HYPATIA
Pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh, author of The 1 18	JOSEPHINE