BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 In Jungian psychology, the unconscious masculine aspect of a woman’s personality (6)

4 President of the African National Congress replaced by Nelson Mandela in 1991 (6,5)

9 ‘Seeming virtuous queen’ who is the mother of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (8)

10 1986 action comedy film starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas (5,4)

11 US legal drama series in which Meghan Markle starred from 2011 to 2018 (5)

12 US actress in I’m No Angel (1933) and Sextette (1978) (3,4)

14 ‘For eloquence the soul, ___ charms the sense’ (John Milton Paradise Lost (1667) (4)

17 Basic monetary unit of Ecuador replaced by the US dollar in 2000, equal to 100 centavos (5)

18 Eldest of the seven Pleiades in Greek mythology; mother, by Zeus, of Hermes (4)

19 Richard ___, executive chairman of the F.A. Premier League since 2014, due to step down by the end of 2018

21 Scientific study of the structure of the earth, especially by examination of its rocks (7)

22 Francisco ___, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas (1533) and founded Lima as the new capital of Peru (1535) (7)

25 City west of Bremen in NW Germany, in Lower Saxony on the rivers Hunte and Haaren (9)

27 Alternative name for the River Thames used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the Thame at Dorchester (4)

28 Active immature form of an insect that develops into a pupa or chrysalis before becoming an adult (5)

29 Unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used especially for ships, aircraft and winds (4)

31 Chief vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, based on medieval German dialects with Hebrew and Slavonic additions (7)

33 Large-headed marine mollusc with eight arms and two long tentacles of the orders Myopsida and Oegopsida (5)

36 Actress who played Lady Olenna Tyrell on TV’s Game of Thrones (5,4)

37 Genus of herbaceous aromatic plants of the family Lamiaceae that includes marjoram and oregano (8)

38 Son of Asa who ruled Judah c. 873–849 BC (I Kings 22:41–50) (11)

39 1981 Dudley Moore comedy film remade with Russell Brand in 2011 (6)

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1 First emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), originally named Gaius Octavius (8)

2 Polyphonic choral composition based on a sacred text; from Old French, ‘little word’ (5)

3 Short erect tail of animals such as the hare, rabbit and deer (4)

4 Second-largest lake of Europe, in NW Russia near the border with Finland (5)

5 ‘Thus with ___ shall that great city Babylon be thrown down’ (Revelation 18:21) (8)

6 Title of respect for an Anglican or Roman Catholic bishop in the UK (5,8)

7 Builder of the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts, after whom it was named (5)

8 Director of the 2018 musical biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (5,6)

13 Upright frame, usually of wood, for supporting a blackboard, artist’s canvas etc. (5)

15 London landmark commissioned by Edward VII in 1910 in memory of his mother Queen Victoria and designed by Aston Webb (9,4)

16 Jane ___, US social reformer and pacifist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 (6)

18 Capital city and chief port of Equatorial Guinea, formerly (until 1973) called Santa Isabel (6)

20 1995 submarine thriller film starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman (7,4)

23 Any tropical American mammal of the genera Nasua and Nasuella, related to the raccoons (5)

24 Amount by which the cost of a country’s visible imports exceeds the value of its visible exports (5,3)

26 Nadine ___, South African author of novels including The Conservationist (1974) and Get A Life (2005); Nobel Prize for Literature (1991) (8)

30 The formal title of the emperor of Japan (5)

32 1964 hit by Scottish singer Lulu originally recorded by The Isley Brothers in 1959 (5)

34 Imperial unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints or approximately 1.13 litres (5)

35 City in Tuscany, west central Italy, on the River Arno near the Ligurian Sea (4)