BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
WIN £1,000
ACROSS
1 Gamal Abdel ___, former President of Egypt (6)
4 Italian musical direction; (to be played) as fast as possible (11)
9 Star of the 2017 historical war drama film Churchill (5,3)
10 Resident caretaker of a block of flats or small hotel, especially in France (9)
11 ‘[H]e kept him as the ___ of his eye’ (Deuteronomy 32:10) (5)
12 Abode of the blessed dead in Greek mythology, ‘where life is easiest for men’ (Homer, Odyssey) (7)
14 Pastry dough that can be stretched into very thin sheets; from Greek, ‘leaf’ (4)
17 Asian dish of spiced rice cooked in stock, typically with chopped meat or vegetable added (5)
18 Autonomous republic of NW Russia; capital, Syktyvkar (4)
19 Coffee made by adding hot water to one or two shots of espresso (9)
21 Tropical American insect that inflicts a painful sting; genus Solenopsis, family Formicidae (4,3)
22 Title character of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (7)
25 Pakistani politician who founded the Pakistan Movement for Justice in 1996 (5,4)
27 Faint southern constellation near the south celestial pole; from Greek, ‘footless’ (4)
28 Newly hatched or very young bird, especially a young pigeon (5)
29 Capital city of Norway, formerly called Christiania and Kristiania (4)
31 and 5 down Protagonist of the US drama series Prison Break (2005-17), played by Wentworth Miller (7,8)
33 Eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter shin (5)
36 Korean martial art similar to karate; literally ‘art of hand and foot fighting’ (3,4,2)
37 Opera by Antonio Vivaldi based on a story in Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (8)
38 Of laws and other legislation, taking effect from a date in the past (11)
39 Ferruginous earth used as a pigment in oil and watercolour painting, normally yellowish-brown (raw) but reddish-brown when roasted (burnt) (6)
DOWN
1 State of the central US west of the Missouri River; capital, Lincoln (8) 2 Timothy ___, star of films including Mr Turner (2014) and The Journey (2016) (5) 3 Joint of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs (4) 4 Smallest discrete component of an image on a television, computer screen etc, usually a coloured dot (5) 5 See 31 Across 6 1987 hit by British rock band Marillion, from the album Clutching at Straws (13)
7 Bundle of unthreshed corn stalks bound together after reaping (5)
8 Psychiatric disorder characterised by delusions of grandeur or self-importance (11)
13 Semi-aquatic opossum of central and S America; Chironectes minimus (5)
15 Lead guitarist with rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013 (6,7)
16 and 18. American golfer who won the US Open in June 2017 (6,6)
20 Strait between the islands of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola linking the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea (4,7)
23 Republic of N Africa made up of the historical regions of Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica (5)
24 Dry white French wine produced in the lower Loire valley near Nantes (8)
26 State of north central Nigeria created in 1996; capital, Lafia (8)
30 Uncultivated or boorish Australian, especially as a stereotype (5)
32 Influential British children’s comic published from 1950 to 1969 and again from 1982 to 1994 (5)
34 Princess of the Netherlands (born 1939); sister of Beatrix, Margriet and Christina (5)
35 2000 duet by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, reaching no.2 in the charts (4)