BIG X-WORD
ACROSS
1 London thoroughfare on which the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived (5,6)
6 BBC One crime drama series starring Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson (6)
9 Of music, (to be performed)
at a brisk, lively tempo (7)
10 State capital of California, named after the river forming its western border (10)
11 European mountain range whose highest peak is Pico de Aneto (8)
12 Francis William ___, English inventor of the mass spectrograph; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922) (5)
13 Captain of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s Mobydick (1851) (4)
16 Simon ___, Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra since September 2017 (6)
19 Large green-skinned cooking apple named after a Notts butcher c.1850 (7)
21 & 22 Basketball team defeated by the Golden State Warriors in the 2018 NBA Finals (9,9)
23 One of the two official languages of Belgium, closely related to Dutch (7)
24 1967-72 ITV spy series starring Edward Woodward and Russell Hunter (6)
25 Aromatic Mediterranean plant whose grey-green leaves are used as a culinary herb; Salvia
officinalis (4)
26 ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a ___’, Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2 (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31 (5)
27 Director and co-writer of the 2018 heist comedy film Ocean’s 8 (4,4)
32 Sea lying between mainland Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily (10)
33 Jean ___, French writer of works including La
Machine Infernale (play, 1934), and
Les Enfants Terribles (novel, 1929) (7)
34 Easternmost island in the Aegean Sea, in the Greek Dodecanese group (6)
35 1925 comedy film starring Charlie Chaplin as The
Lone Prospector (3,4,4)
DOWN 1
Empty boasting; from the name of a character in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-6) (11)
2 Hindu goddess of destruction, consort of the god Shiva (4)
3 2016 hit by US singer Beyoncé, from the album Lemonade (5)
4 Concentrated extract of a drug, plant etc. containing its active constituents (7)
5 Greek goddess of fortune, counterpart of the Roman Fortuna (5) 6 First wife of Jacob, to whom she bore six sons and a daughter (Genesis
29) (4)
7 Either of two epistolary books of the New Testament written by St Paul, placed between Colossians and 1
Timothy (13)
8 Thermodynamic quantity measured in joules per kelvin (7)
14 1932 dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley set in 2540
AD (5,3,5)
15 Language of a group of native peoples of southern Mexico and Central America that includes the ancient Aztecs (7)
17 City on the Mediterranean coast of Israel founded as a suburb of Jaffa in
1909 (3,4)
18 In cricket, the distance from the batsman at which the ball bounces (6)
19 Edible fruit of the tropical and subtropical plant Musa sapientum (6)
20 Scotland’s only operational RAF station, first opened in 1939 (11)
23 Frederick ___, English author of thrillers including The Day
Of The Jackal (1971) and The Fourth
Protocol (1984) (7)
24 Capital city and chief port of French Guiana, founded in 1643 (7)
28 Most admired or soughtafter group of people, especially in show business (1,4)
29 Capital of South Korea, in
the north-west on the Han
River (5)
30 Gang opposed to the Sharks in the 1957 Sondheim and Bernstein musical West Side
Story (4)
31 Native country of Paddington Bear in the books by British author Michael Bond (4)