PRIZE CROSSWORD
Aug 04, 2022
4 minutes
Compiled by Eddie James
Across
1 Great Roman writer, statesman and orator (106-43 BC) (6)
4 Strait in the English Channel where the Mary Rose sank in 1545 (8)
10 Queen of Jerusalem who ruled (alongside her husband and, later, her son, often amid tension and opposition) in the 12th century (9)
11 Southern Chinese city, once a Portuguese colony and now a major gambling centre (5)
12 Side in the American Civil War opposed to the Confederacy (5)
13 Artillery explosive used, for example, to illuminate areas between enemy trenches (4,5)
14 A major example is the Great Plague of London (1665-66) (8)
"Bessie"_______, mistress of Henry VIII who bore
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