BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 1966 novel by Jean Rhys featuring characters from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) (4,8,3)

10 2005-8 BBC comedy drama series written by David Renwick and starring Tamsin Grieg (4,4)

11 Frédéric Auguste ___ (1834-1904), French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty (9)

12 Music performed in a brisk or lively manner; Italian, ‘with movement’ (3,4)

13 East-flowing river that forms part of the border between Scotland and England (5)

15 Second-largest city in the Czech Republic; historical capital of Moravia (4)

16 Newfoundland dog owned by the Darling family in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (1904) (4)

17 2018 war horror film starring Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell (8)

18 Southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, lying immediately south-west of Jura (5)

20 Thorny evergreen Moroccan tree of the family Sapotaceae whose seeds yield an oil used in cosmetics and cooking (5)

22 Clifford ___, US dramatist whose plays include Waiting for Lefty (1935) and Golden Boy (1937) (5)

25 Capital of the Hubei province in SE China, located at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze Rivers (5)

27 Wife of King Minos of Crete and mother, by a bull, of the Minotaur (8)

28 Greek philosopher who founded Stoicism in Athens c. 300 BC (4)

30 Inert gaseous element that emits a red glow when electricity is passed through it; atomic no. 10 (4)

32 ‘Such sweet compulsion doth in ___ lie’ (John Milton ‘Arcades’) (5)

33 Positively charged central region of an atom, composed of protons and neutrons surrounded by a cloud of electrons (7)

35 Officer of the British Army or Royal Marines ranking above colonel and below major general (9)

36 Volatile liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene class that can be polymerised into synthetic rubber (8)

37 Russian composer whose works include the opera The Love for Three Oranges (6,9) DOWN

2 Scottish author of novels including 2018’s Dead Men’s Trousers (6,5)

3 Capital of South Korea, in the west on the Han River (5)

4 Long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt, used as a thrusting weapon (6)

5 City of ancient Latium south-east of Rome; legendary birthplace of Romulus and Remus (4,5)

6 Nomad of the Syrian and Arabian deserts that harassed the borders of the Roman Empire (7)

7 Dessert consisting of a rough mixture of strawberries, whipped cream and broken meringue (4,4)

8 Flat bony plate forming the underside of the shell of a tortoise or turtle (8)

9 and 14. Actor who voices the stuffed hedgehog Mr Pricklepants in the Toy Story film franchise (7,6)

15 Horizontal rail fixed to a wall at about hip height, used by ballet dancers when exercising (5)

18 Soft malleable metallic element chemically similar to gallium and thallium, chiefly occurring in zinc ores (6)

19 Rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle (11)

21 Unit of weight in the Troy system equal to one twenty-fourth of a pennyweight (5)

23 Any small fleshy-leaved plant of the crassulaceous genus Sedum, typically having star-shaped yellow or white flowers (9)

24 Large constellation of the northern hemisphere lying between Lyra and Corona Borealis (8)

25 Debut single by English girl group the Spice Girls, released in 1996 (7)

26 Allegory or moral fable, especially one with animals as characters (8)

29 Of a bathroom etc, forming part of a larger set of rooms; French, ‘in sequence’ (2,5)

31 Duke of Illyria in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, who spoke the line “if music be the food of Love play on” (6)

34 Island of Equatorial Guinea on which the capital, Malabo, is located (5)