BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

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1 Largest of the Cook Islands in the SW Pacific; site of the capital, Avarua ( 9)

5 Wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of the Minotaur ( 8)

9 Ball game of Basque origin similar to pelota;

literally, ‘ merry festival’ ( 3,4)

10 Family of more than 1700 species to which about two- thirds of the world’s snakes belong ( 10)

11 Annie ___, US photographer best known for her portrait work; Olympic Portraits ( 1996), American Music ( 2003) etc. ( 9)

12 Flexible strip of material, typically leather, used

for sharpening razors ( 5)

13 Plant genus of the order Zingiberales to which the bananas and plantains belong ( 4) 15 US singer- songwriter who had four UK No. 1 singles between 1997 and 2010 ( 5)

17 Whaling vessel captained by the one- legged Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ( 1851) ( 6)

19 and 32 Down 1980 comedy by British playwright Willy Russell inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion ( 1913) ( 9,4)

21 Large arm of the western Pacific between Korea and NE China; Chinese name, Huang Hai ( 6,3)

22 1989 hit by US rock singer Alice Cooper, from

the album Trash ( 6)

23 Homeland of Gog, a prophesied invader of

Israel ( Ezekiel 38) ( 5)

27 Immature seed pods of the malvaceous Old World plant Hibiscus esculentus, eaten as a vegetable ( 4)

28 Adopted surname of Oscar- winning English actress Vivien Hartley ( 1913- 67) ( 5)

29 City in the Gelderland province of the central Netherlands; site of the Het Loo royal palace ( 9)

33 Chemical process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to produce heat and light in the form of flame ( 10)

34 Surname of Jim, protagonist of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island ( 1883) ( 7)

35 Scientific study of blood serum, especially the immune responses induced in it by antigens ( 8)

36 Unit of electrical power equal to approximately 0.000001341 horsepower ( 9)

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1 National art gallery of the Netherlands, founded by King Louis Bonaparte in 1808 ( 11)

2 ‘ And princely counsel in his face yet shone,/ Majestic though in ___’ ( John Milton Paradise Lost ( 1667) ( 4)

3 Shortest book of the Bible, comprising a single

chapter divided into 21 verses ( 7)

4 Recess in the wall of a room or garden; from

Arabic, ‘ the vault’ ( 6)

5 Television or radio programme made to test audience reaction before commissioning a series ( 5)

6 Small island north- west of St. Kitts in the Caribbean; a self- governing territory of the Netherlands ( 4)

7 1969 Western musical film starring Lee Marvin,

Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg ( 5,4,5)

8 Legendary island to which King Arthur was conveyed after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann ( 6)

11 Servant of Shylock and later of Bassanio in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

( 1596- 8) ( 9,5)

14 ‘[ S] ome animals are more ___ than others’

( George Orwell Animal Farm ( 1945) ( 5)

16 Milk- curdling enzyme occurring in the gastric juice of young ruminant mammals and widely used in the production of cheese; also called chymosin ( 6)

17 One of the four bodily humours in early Western physiological theory, thought to induce indolence or apathy ( 6)

18 Director of the 2020 science fiction comedy

film Bill & Ted Face the Music ( 4,7)

20 Arrangement whereby property is held by one person for the benefit of another, e. g. a minor ( 5)

24 Jane ___, British ethologist known for her studies of chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania from 1970 ( 7)

25 In classical architecture, a square space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze ( 6) 26 Assembly of all the members of a group or committee, especially a legislature; from Latin, ‘ full space’ ( 6)

30 Roman statesman and scholar, known as ‘ the Elder’, whose encyclopaedic Natural History was published in 77 AD ( 5)

31 European capital city that hosted the sixth Winter Olympics in 1952 ( 4)

32 See 19 Across