BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
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Third- smallest state of the US; from Algonquian, ‘ long tidal river’ ( 11)
6 Loose pendulous fold of skin, usually brightly- coloured, on the neck or throat of certain birds and lizards ( 6)
9 Herbaceous plant of the dock family ( Polygonaceae) cultivated for its edible leaf stalks ( petioles) ( 7)
10 First five books of the Old Testament,
traditionally ascribed to Moses ( 10)
11 Carthaginian general who fought against Rome
in the first Punic War; the father of Hannibal ( 8)
12 Hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a lioness,
smaller than a liger ( 5)
13 Rigid shell of plaster, fibreglass etc. that
immobilises a broken limb while it sets ( 4)
16 Lleyton ___, Australian tennis player who won
the Wimbledon Men’s Singles title in 2002 ( 6)
19 Closest point to the Earth in the orbit of the
moon or an artificial satellite ( 7)
21 Section of the SW Pacific lying between
Australia and New Zealand ( 6,3)
22 Language of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic,
spoken especially in Nunavut ( 9)
23 Piece of armour consisting of a waist- length
breastplate and backplate fastened together ( 7)
24 ‘___ of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ ( John
Keats ‘ To Autumn’ ( 1820) ( 6)
25 Male parent of a quadruped, especially a
stallion or bull kept for breeding ( 4)
26 Controlled four- wheel skid used in motor
racing to take bends at high speed ( 5)
27 Fictional kingdom of west Africa in which Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office ( 1923) is set ( 8)
32 Colleen ___, Australian author of novels including The Thorn Birds ( 1977) and The Touch ( 2003) ( 10)
33 In basketball, the action of catching a ball after
a missed shot ( 7)
34 City on the River Tagus in central Spain
famous for its steel and swords ( 6)
35 Usual English name of the 1879 Henrik Ibsen play Et dukkehjem, centred on the Helmer family ( 1,5,5)
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1 Largest town in the Cotswolds, known in
Roman times as Corinium ( 11)
2 Capital city of Greenland, known by the
Danish name Godthåb until 1979 ( 4)
3 Papal court at the Vatican that administers the Roman Catholic Church, comprising various Congregations, Tribunals etc. ( 5)
4 Family in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to
which Juliet belongs ( 7)
5 Island country in the southern Pacific south
east of Fiji and south- west of Samoa ( 5)
6 Cruciferous European plant formerly cultivated
as a source of blue dye ( 4)
7 1857 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
subtitled ‘ A Tale of the Last Century’ ( 3,10)
8 White crystalline disaccharide sugar occurring
in milk, obtained by evaporating whey ( 7)
14 1791 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart whose
characters include the Queen of the Night ( 3,5,5)
15 William ___, English chemist and physicist who
discovered the element thallium in 1861 ( 7)
17 John ___, English author of science fiction novels; The Day of the Triffids ( 1951), The Midwich Cuckoos ( 1957) etc. ( 7)
18 Sea nymph in Greek mythology who bore
Achilles to Peleius, king of Phthia ( 6)
19 US singer and musician who topped the UK charts with ‘ The Most Beautiful Girl in the World’ in 1994 ( 6)
20 Twenty- fifth instalment of the James Bond film series, currently scheduled for release in November 2020 ( 2,4,2,3)
23 Orange- flavoured liqueur mixed with vodka and
lemonade to make a Blue Lagoon cocktail ( 7)
24 Nickname of US jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong ( 1901- 71), used as the title of an autobiography published in 1954 ( 7)
28 Plant genus of the mint family ( Lamiaceae) to
which bugle belongs ( 5)
29 Lift in weightlifting in which a weight is raised to shoulder level, then pushed to arm’s length above the head ( 5)
30 Potato in South Asian cuisine; from Hindi,
Urdu and Sanskrit ( 4)
31 Pufferfish eaten as a delicacy in Japan after the
removal of its toxic parts by a trained chef ( 4)