BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
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1 1942 romantic drama film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (10)
5 English name of the 1889 Auguste Rodin sculpture Le Baiser (3,4)
10 Brown almond-flavoured liqueur produced in Italy; ‘a little bitter’ (8)
11 Derived SI unit of magnetic flux density, equal to one weber per square metre or 10,000 gauss (5)
12 Father of Portly in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (5)
13 Alternative name for the hanuman monkey, from an aged Sicilian boxer in Virgil’s Aeneid (8)
14 The ___, London skyscraper formerly known as London Bridge Tower (5)
15 Measure of the energy in a closed thermodynamic system unavailable to do work (7)
18 Improvement of a population’s hereditary characteristics, especially through the use of selective breeding (8)
20 ‘The serpent subtlest ___ of all the field’ (John Milton, Paradise Lost) (5)
22 Large predatory freshwater fish of northern waters with a pointed snout and large teeth; Esox lucius (4)
23 Eldest of the Pleiades in Greek mythology; mother, by Zeus, of Hermes (4)
24 Occurrence defined in the theory of relativity as a single point in space-time (5)
27 Strong black coffee made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans (8)
29 Paul ___, actor best known for playing the film and TV character Pee-wee Herman (7)
31 Active immature form of an insect that develops into a pupa or chrysalis before becoming an adult (5)
32 Deep open crack or fissure, especially in the ice of a glacier (8)
34 Capital and largest city of Tunisia, a port on the Mediterranean coast (5)
35 Any tree or shrub of the genus Rhus in the cashew family, bearing hairy red fruit ground for use as a spice (5)
36 Transverse part of a cruciform church at right angles to the nave (8)
37 Standard monetary unit of East Germany prior to reunification in 1990, worth 100 pfennig (7)
38 Breed of toy dog of the spitz type with a long silky coat and pointed muzzle (10)
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1 Capital of the Caribbean island of St Lucia, a port on the NW coast (8) 2 Workshop or studio used by an artist; from French, ‘splinter of wood’ (7) 3 Post-mortem examination of a body to determine cause of death (7) 4 and 7. 2016 action comedy film starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (7,12)
6 Rock band whose hits include ‘Alone’ and ‘Stranded’ (5) 7 See 4 Down 8 Martin ___, director of films including Taxi Driver and Casino (8)
9 2003 superhero film starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell (9)
16 1928 play by George Bernard Shaw subtitled A Political Extravaganza (3,5,4)
17 Greek island in the Aegean where St John is thought to have written the Book of Revelation (6)
19 Country of SE Europe bordered by Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey (6)
21 1851 opera by Giuseppe Verdi about the hunchbacked court jester of the Duke of Mantua (9)
25 Kinsman of Prince Escalus in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (8)
26 Capital city and chief port of Paraguay, at the confluence of the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers (8)
28 River of northern South America that forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela (7)
29 Arthur ___, English author of the 1930 children’s novel Swallows and Amazons (7)
30 Black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons occurring naturally in tar and asphalt, used for road surfacing and roofing (7)
33 Slender plant shoot, especially a pointed stem of asparagus or broccoli (5)