Tls 1114

[blinker]

I find this crossword very difficult this week. Maybe if I had these two I could progress.

1d berlin hotel which opened during world war 11 (7,3)
G?L???? ?G?

25a pow in Malaya putting lots of time into gym (5). p?G??
I thought Pygmy but why?

[bibblebub]

1d: Holiday Inn ??? if letters wrong

1942 musical film with music by Irving Berlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn_(film)

[bibblebub]

25a: PageT ???

Jean Paget was a prisoner of war in Malaya in A Town Like Alice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Like_Alice#Characters

[blinker]

Thank you bibblebub. I am badly off course. Back to the drawing board!

[bibblebub]

i don't have the crossword to know whether your letters for 1d are wrong or not, but the answer i've given seems to fit the clue

[Woodside187]

Holiday Inn is right for 1d - published in 1942. Am also finding this is a struggle - Broteas in in a different league to Praxiteles. 21a is an anagram, the answer a book title

[NC4BBQ]

21A ENGLAND MADE ME

[highbury57]

I agree about the crossword, but it is part of a trend. The crosswords are becoming unliterary - take 5a for example. I have written to the editor, Robert Pottso, but have been met with blandness and coyness ie he is a bit of a self satisfied ***. The Literary Monthly is a better magazine with a better crossword. You pays your money........