PUZZLE 51
Across
- 1. Queen Elizabeth II worked as one during World War II (8)
- 5. Popeye's nemesis (5)
- 7. Once used with candles to tell the time (5)
- 9. Collective name for a group of hippos (5)
- 11. Overwhelming defeat (4)
- 12. Invented by Frank Epperson in 1905 and known as a lolly in the UK (8)
- 13. Burdensome demand paid to the government (3)
- 14. Creatures immune to cancer (6)
- 16. Pig-like (7)
- 17. Scale-covered anteater (8)
- 18. 19th century opium tincture used as a painkiller (8)
- 20. Most-followed sport worldwide (6)
Down
- 2. Lack of respect (8)
- 3. Used by cats as a width guide (8)
- 4. A dog that never barks (7)
- 6. The only even prime number (3)
- 8. Tennis playing surface at Wimbledon (5)
- 10. Traditional roof material in Norway (4)
- 13. The nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Roses' is about this disease (3,6)
- 15. The only food item that never spoils (5)
- 19. Young kangaroo or koala (4)