Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers November 27 2017

Clue	Solution
1973 stage play by Peter Shaffer	EQUUS
1987 opera by John Adams	NIXON
2007 debut novel by William P Young	THESHACK
2009 novel by James Patterson	IALEX
Agatha —, fictional creation of M C Beaton who first appeared in a 1992 mystery novel	RAISIN
BBC Radio comedy programme starring Tommy Handley that ran from 1939-49	ITMA
Black partially dried plum with a wrinkled appearance	PRUNE
Branch of medicine concerned with the functions and diseases of women and girls	GYNAECOLOGY
British singer-songwriter who recorded 1977 UK no 1 single When I Need You	LEOSAYER
City in Meurthe-et-Moselle, France; capital of the dukes of Lorraine in the 12th-century	NANCY
French physician in William Shakespeare stage comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor	DOCTORCAIUS
Inland port of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany at the confluence of the Rivers Neckar and Rhine	MANNHEIM
Joe —, author of stage plays What the Butler Saw and Entertaining Mr Sloane	ORTON
Judy —, US author of novels Wifey, Blubber and Deenie	BLUME
Lester —, US jazz tenor saxophonist nicknamed Pres who died in 1959	YOUNG
One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint	ARCH
Political philosophy associated with Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin	ANARCHY
Republic on the Persian Gulf; capital Baghdad	IRAQ
River in Hades in Greek mythology that caused forgetfulness in those who drank from it	LETHE
Robert —, pen name of the author of 1914 posthumously published novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists	TRESSELL
Romance language of Europe also known as Langue d’oc	OCCITAN
Small burrowing mammal with velvety dark fur	MOLE
The —, 1963 novel by Iris Murdoch	UNICORN
Very small nocturnal fox inhabiting deserts of Arabia and N Africa	FENNEC