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1 Former name ( until 1839) of Sucre, the legal capital of Bolivia ( 10)
5 Port city of NE Italy, capital of the Friuli- Venezia
Giulia region ( 7)
10 Pasta in the form of ridged square- cut tubes,
typically about 1 ½ inches long ( 8)
11 Character played by Kaley Cuoco on the 2007
19 US sitcom The Big Bang Theory ( 5)
12 Capital of Bihar in NE India, known in ancient
times as Pataliputra ( 5)
13 Salt- cured and lightly spiced Italian pork;
literally, ‘ little belly’ ( 8)
14 Small magnifying glass used by jewellers, watchmakers etc, usually mounted in an eyepiece ( 5)
15 Westernmost of the three Prairie Provinces of Canada, named after the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria ( 7)
18 Usual North American name for courgette; from
Italian, ‘ little gourd’ ( 8)
20 In biology, a taxonomic group ranking below a
class and above a family ( 5)
22 Upcoming 2020 science fiction film directed by
Denis Villeneuve ( 4)
23 Hard white fat found around the kidneys and loins of sheep and cattle, used in cooking and making tallow ( 4)
24 Plant genus of the birch family ( Betulaceae) to
which the alders belong ( 5)
27 Sir Harry ___, British- born New Zealand statesman; Prime Minister 1876– 7, 1883– 4 and 1887– 91 ( 8)
29 Largest city of America’s Pacific Northwest,
founded by European settlers in 1851 ( 7)
31 Genus of North American succulent plants whose members include Adam’s- needle and the Joshua tree ( 5)
32 Sugar alcohol first discovered in the berries of the mountain ash in 1872; used in food as the sweetener E420 ( 8)
34 ‘ Gem State’ of the north- western US, admitted
to the Union on July 3 1890 ( 5)
35 Vegetable cooked in two stages as the base of
the Indian dish dopiaza ( 5)
36 Pre- euro ( 2002) currency unit of Austria equal
to one hundredth of a schilling ( 8)
37 In the Order of the British Empire, a member of
the grade next below commander ( 7)
38 ‘___ is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ ( Samuel
Johnson, 7 April 1775) ( 10)
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1 Rank held by the character Nym in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1597) and Henry V ( 1599) ( 8)
2 Bitter crystalline alkaloid obtained from cinchona bark, used as a tonic and as an antimalarial drug ( 7)
3 Large flat triangular bone of the upper back
that connects the clavicle with the humerus ( 7)
4 Inner or outer corner of the eye, where the
upper and lower lids meet ( 7)
6 Pilot episode of the 1975- 8 ITV police drama The Sweeney, named for the character played by John Thaw ( 5)
7 1986 science fiction comedy film starring Ally
Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg ( 5,7)
8 In classical drama, the part of a play ( between the protasis and catastasis) in which the main action develops ( 8)
9 Four- sided plane figure ( quadrilateral) having
one pair of opposite sides parallel ( 9)
16 Star of films including The Mummy ( 1932) and The Man With Nine Lives ( 1940), born William Henry Pratt in 1887 ( 5,7)
17 Ancient capital of Cilicia in modern- day Turkey;
the birthplace of St Paul ( 6)
19 Any of a number of lines on a cricket pitch ( bowling, popping, or return) marked to define the positions of the bowler and batsman ( 6)
21 19th- century Swedish operatic soprano known
as ‘ the Swedish nightingale’ ( 5,4)
25 Musical direction indicating that a passage is to be repeated from a marked point; Italian, ‘ from the sign’ ( 3,5)
26 Grey crystalline non- metallic element named
from the Greek word for ‘ moon’ ( 8)
28 Geographical region consisting of many islands of the central and South Pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia ( 7)
29 Large, typically ornate, Russian tea urn heated
internally, traditionally by a charcoal burner ( 7)
30 In astrology, the passage of a planet across a
particular point on the zodiac ( 7)
33 Freshwater lake in North America, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the California- Nevada border ( 5)