The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 79 - Apr 26 2010

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Clues Answers
'Old --', a 1957 Patti Page record CAPECOD
'Sad --', an Agatha Christie novel CYPRESS
-- Dyall, English character actor known as 'The Man in Black' VALENTINE
A Cole Porter musical KISSMEKATE
A disinfectant LYSOL
A four-handed Indian board game in which six cowries are used like dice PACHISI
A member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century AZTEC
A Mexican salamander AXOLOTL
An amount of liquor left at the bottom of a glass after drinking HEELTAP
Ancient country at the northern end of the Greek peninsula MACEDONIA
Cannabis GANJA
Capital of Venezuela CARACAS
Character in 'The Scornful Lady', a play by Beaumont and Fletcher ABIGAIL
Chief port of Chile VALPARAISO
Children's card game SNAP
French town, a major centre for the insurance industry NIORT
Clues Answers
Horse-drawn carriage used for transporting passengers or mail POSTCHAISE
Jean --, French film director (1905-34) VIGO
Jean --, journalist referred to as 'The First Lady of Fleet Street' ROOK
Kind of unsweetened biscuit BATHOLIVER
Large herbaceous Asian plant of the banana family ABACA
Mouthlike openings in some animals STOMATA
Name under which Pope satirises Lady Suffolk, mistress of George II CHLOE
One of the Canary Islands LANZAROTE
Palindromic name for a novel in a semi-rural middle-class setting AGASAGA
Signallers' name for the letters AM (ante meridiem) in World War I ACKEMMA
Small songbird eaten as a delicacy ORTOLAN
The first Premier of the Soviet Union LENIN
The highest German military decoration for bravery, instituted in 1813 IRONCROSS
The last of the Stuart monarchs ANNE
UK TV crime drama series starring Robbie Coltrane CRACKER
Uruguay's second largest city SALTO