BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
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1 Large arm of the South Pacific between SE Australia and NW New Zealand (6,3) 5 European capital that hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics (8) 9 Name taken by sixteen popes, most recently Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (1831-46) (7) 10 Of dishes, prepared in a sauce made with garlic, olive oil and usually tomatoes (10) 11 First of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire novels by English author Anthony Trollope, published in 1855 (3,6) 12 State of NE India with borders on Bhutan and Bangladesh; capital, Dispur (5) 13 Highest adult male singing voice, also called countertenor (4) 15 Member of the old aristocracy of Russia ranking just below a prince, abolished by the reforms of Peter the Great (1672-1725) (5) 17 Box-shaped cartilaginous organ at the top of the trachea that contains the vocal cords (6) 19 Principal currency unit of Swaziland, divided into 100 cents (9) 21 Carbohydrate forming the main constituent of the cell walls of plants, used in making paper, rayon, film etc. (9) 22 Largest river in the world by discharge volume and watershed area, mostly located in Brazil (6) 23 River of SW Europe forming part of the border between Spain and Portugal (5) 27 Character placed at the beginning of a stave to indicate the pitch of the notes that follow (4) 28 Bass instrument of the violin family with four strings typically tuned C G D A (5) 29 US virologist who developed the first vaccine against polio, introduced into use in 1955 (5,4) 33 Crime of which US gangster Al Capone was convicted on October 17 1931 (3,7) 34 Light plain-weave cotton fabric typically woven in checks with white and another colour (7) 35 Department in the Grand Est region of E France separated from Germany by the Rhine River (4-4) 36 Largest extant species of swan, native to North America; Cygnus buccinator (9)
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1 Pasta in the form of long flat ribbons; from Italian, ‘to cut’ (11) 2 Base part of a word, to which inflectional affixes are added (4) 3 Place where plants and trees are grown commercially for sale or transplanting (7) 4 Base SI unit of electric current, equivalent to one coulomb per second (6) 5 Minute, typically single-celled, reproductive unit produced by seedless plants, fungi etc. (5) 6 Nicolas ___, English director of films including The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Witches (1990) (4) 7 US abstract expressionist painter (1912-56) who pioneered the technique of action painting (7,7) 8 Roman god of fire and metalworking, counterpart of the Greek Hephaestus (6) 11 Scottish author of picaresque novels including The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) (6,8) 14 Fourth-largest moon of Uranus, discovered by British astronomer William Lassell in 1851 (5) 16 Damon ___, US short-story writer who coined the phrase ‘Hooray Henry’ (‘Tight Shoes,’ 1936) (6) 17 Compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers reissued for its 35th anniversary in 2019; the best-selling reggae album of all time (6) 18 2019 crime thriller film starring Joel Kinnaman and Rosamund Pike (3,8) 20 Hard vitreous coating applied to pottery to make it smooth and watertight (5) 24 Radioactive silvery-grey metallic element used as the main fuel in nuclear reactors (7) 25 State of the western US whose name means ‘snow-covered’ in Spanish (6) 26 Wrinkled edible seed of the large deciduous tree Juglans regia (6) 30 Large constellation on the celestial equator containing the first magnitude stars Betelgeuse and Rigel (5) 31 One of the five city-states of the Philistines, from which Goliath came (I Samuel 17:4) (4) 32 Any small Old World songbird of the subfamily Saxicolinae, formerly classified with the thrushes (4)