BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Queen of the Underworld in Greek mythology, also known as Kore (10)

5 1971 Woody Allen comedy film co-starring Louise Lasser and Carlos Montalban (7)

10 Chinese contemporary artist whose 150-ton Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) was exhibited at the Tate Modern from October 2010 to May 2011 (2,6)

11 English rock band whose albums include Be Here Now (1997) and Dig Out Your Soul (2008) (5)

12 Long heavy iron-bound wooden stick used as a weapon in India, especially by police (5)

13 Type of Indian cooking in which skewered meat, vegetables etc. are cooked over an intense fire in a clay oven (8)

14 ‘There shall be weeping and gnashing of ___’ (Matthew 8:12) (5)

15 Decorative work made by knotting and weaving coarse thread into a pattern; from Turkish, ‘towel’ (7)

18 Latin name for Ireland, derived from the same Celtic source as Erin and Eire (8)

20 Currency unit of Slovenia replaced by the euro in 2007, divided into 100 stotin (5)

22 Small island of the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Mull, connected by bridge to the neighbouring Gometra (4)

23 Brightest star in the constellation Lyra; from Arabic, ‘the falling eagle’ (4)

24 Province of SE China between the Yangtze River and the Nanling Mountains; capital, Changsha (5)

27 Carmarthenshire town formerly dubbed Tinopolis for the importance of its tin industry (8)

29 Poisonous oily liquid with an unpleasant garlicky smell, composed of arsenic, carbon and hydrogen (7)

31 Capital and largest city of Cape Verde, on the southern coast of Santiago island (5)

32 Biennial men’s golf competition first contested between Great Britain and the United States in Massachusetts in 1927 (5,3)

34 Jacques ___ French composer whose works include the light orchestral piece Divertissement (5) 35 See 25 Down.

36 ‘Fire burn and ___ bubble’ (Shakespeare Macbeth (1606) (8)

37 2018 film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood (3,4)

38 English actor who managed the Drury Lane (1788–1802) and Covent Garden (1803–17) theatres; brother of actress Sarah Siddons (4,6)

DOWN

1 Longest-running current affairs programme in the world, first broadcast on BBC One in 1953 (8)

2 Alias of Aragorn in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series (7)

3 Translucent colourless variety of opal also known as Muller’s glass (7)

4 Entrance hall at the west end of an early Christian church or basilica, railed off from the nave (7)

6 Egyptian city on the Nile near Lake Nasser known in ancient times as Syene (5)

7 Large island of E Canada separated from the mainland by the Strait of Belle Isle (12)

8 Short curved single-edged sword broadening towards the point, used historically by the Turks and Persians (8)

9 US singer and record producer married to singer Tim McGraw since 1996 (5,4)

16 1967 prison drama film starring Paul Newman and an Oscar-winning George Kennedy (4,4,4)

17 See 29 Down.

19 Creator god in Hinduism, forming a triad with Vishnu (the Preserver) and Shiva (the Destroyer) (6)

21 Wife of the Roman general Germanicus and mother of Caligula (14 BC–33 AD) (9)

25 and 35 Across. Foremost German painter and engraver of the Renaissance, patronised by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (8,5)

26 Toxic pale yellow gas of the halogen series that is the most reactive non-metallic element (8)

28 Capital of the Italian island of Sicily, founded by the Phoenicians in 734 BC (7)

29 and 17 Down. Upcoming 2019 superhero film starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson (7,6)

30 Mouth-like aperture in a sponge through which water is expelled; from Latin, ‘little mouth’ (7)

33 Canonised Greek missionary (826–69) credited with inventing the alphabet used for Russian and other Slavic languages (5)