Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers December 6 2017

Clue	Solution
2006 novel by Ruth Rendell	THEWATERS
Small port and resort in Argyll and Bute, W Scotland	OBAN
Stavros —, Greek shipping tycoon who died in 1996	NIARCHOS
— Peninsula, area of land in E Canada between the St Lawrence River and Chaleur Bay	GASPE
Stephen —, author of novels Takedown and Hot Blood	LEATHER
Edgar Allan —, US short-story writer who died in 1849	POE
Large feline mammal of African and Asian forests	LEOPARD
Peter —, 2013 winner, with Francois Englert, of the Nobel Prize in Physics	HIGGS
Burmese diplomat; third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961-71	UTHANT
2008 winner of The Oaks ridden by Seb Sanders	LOOKHERE
Gaming stake put up before the deal in poker	ANTE
Species of Dianthus also called clove pink	CARNATION
2008 action film starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson	FOOLSGOLD
Coastal city in SE Texas, US famously struck by a hurricane in 1900	GALVESTON
Yuzuru —, 2014 Winter Olympics men’s singles figure skating gold medallist	HANYU
Asian woody grass of the bamboo subfamily whose stems are used for canes and umbrella handles	WHANGEE
Society set up in Poperinge, Belgium, during WWI to encourage Christian comradeship	TOCH
Marcelo —, 1998 Australian Open singles tennis championship runner-up	RIOS
Australian shrub with a flowering spike also known as blackboy	GRASSTREE
City in Israel housing Ben Gurion International Airport	LOD
Maria —, winner of the 1959 US National Singles tennis championship	BUENO
1950s political movement in Cyprus led by Georgeios Grivas	EOKA
2008 biopic starring Sophie Okonedo as Sandra Laing	SKIN