BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

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1987 romantic comedy film starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger (5,4)

‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much ___ in him?’ (Shakespeare’s Macbeth) (5)

1818 poem by John Keats beginning ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’ (8)

One of the four bases in the nucleic acid of DNA, in which it pairs with adenine (7)

US county in northern Indiana named after a Polish general (9)

Biblical brother of Rebecca and father of Leah and Rachel (5)

Standard monetary unit of Turkey, divided into 100 kurus (4)

Brief outline of the plot of a work of fiction (8)

Attack made by a small military force from a contained or besieged position (6)

Ferengi character played by Aron Eisenberg in TV’s Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (3)

Goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology; wife of Astraeus, god of the dusk (3)

City that replaced Almaty as the capital of Kazakhstan in 1997 (6)

Catapult used in ancient warfare to hurl stones and other large missiles over a distance (8)

Strong cold north wind blowing

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along the east coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter (4)

Anglo-Saxon nobleman, below an ealdorman, granted lands by a king or lord in return for military service (5)

State on the Coromandel Coast of SE India formerly called Madras (5,4)

Second-smallest country of South America, bordering Brazil and Argentina (7)

Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta; subject of a tragedy by Sophocles (8)

Incurving fold that forms the rim of the external ear (5)

Newly coined word or phrase, or a new usage of an established one (9)

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Wife of George Wickham in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (5,6)

2011 crime thriller film starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan (5)

Thomas ___, English composer noted for ‘Rule, Britannia’ (4)

Turkish-born director of films including East of Eden and The Last Tycoon (4,5)

Fulgencio ___, Cuban dictator overthrown during the Cuban Revolution (7)

Hard brittle bluish-white metallic element of the transition series, atomic no 76 (6)

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1997-8 ITV drama series starring Robson Green and Francesca Annis (8)

Singer-songwriter whose albums include 2016’s Lemonade (7)

Japanese name for Japan; literally, ‘land where the sun rises’ (6)

Department of east central France whose capital is Saint-Étienne (5)

Small spotted and striped wildcat of Central and South America (6)

2016 survival film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Blake Lively (3,8)

Pear-shaped tropical American fruit with yellow skin and pink pulp (5)

Large-finned goldfish of an ornamental variety having black spots and red patches (9)

1814 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott subtitled ‘Tis Sixty Years Since (8)

Genus of biennial plants of the family Asteraceae to which burdock belongs (7)

Membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth that connects them to the oesophagus (7)

Short catchy tune or verse, especially as used in advertising (6)

16-line subway system of Paris, operating since July 19 1900 (5)

Manservant of Clouseau in the Pink Panther film series, played by Burt Kwouk (4)

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