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Imperial unit of capacity equal to one twentieth of a pint or 28.4 cubic centimetres (5,5) Second-largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan, founded by the military chieftain Rao Jodha in 1459 (7)
10 Carnivorous plants created in a 1951 novel by English science fiction author John Wyndham (8)
11 Island country east of Fiji in the SW Pacific;
capital, Nuku’alofa (5)
12 Informal name for the Southern states of the US, from the title of a song written by Daniel Decatur Emmett in 1859 (5)
Donald ___, US Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford (1975-77) and George W. Bush (2001-6) (8)
South American mammal of the camel family (Camelidae) closely related to the alpaca, guanaco and vicuña (5)
Capital of French Polynesia, situated on the NW coast of Tahiti (7)
18 Large-grained brown cane sugar first
produced in Guyana in the 1600s (8)
20 Wooden cowboy voiced by Tom Hanks in the
films of the Toy Story franchise (1995-2019) (5)
22 Young salmon up to two years of age, between
the stages of fry and smolt (4)
23 In Mexican cooking, a maize flour dough used
to make tamales, tortillas etc. (4)
24 Light crinkled fabric of cotton, silk etc. whose
name means ‘curled’ in French (5)
27 Trojan prince in classical mythology who fathered the hero Aeneas (8) Brownish-grey freshwater duck similar to the mallard; Anas strepera (7) Four-seater car with two doors, a hard fixed roof and a sloping back (5)
32 Samanea saman, family Fabaceae (legumes), native to Central and South America (4,4)
Last king of France (1830-48), known as the Citizen King (5,8)
Stalk-like extension of a flower’s ovary that supports the stigma (5)
36 See 34
37 Jack ___, US boxer who was world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926 (7) Inlet of the Bay of Bengal that separates SE India from northern Sri Lanka (4,6)
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1 Thick cable to which the lower edge of a sail is
attached (8)
2 Second solo studio album by John Lennon,
released in 1971 (7)
3 Any tailed amphibian of the order that includes the salamanders and the newts (7)
Of a cable, transmitting high-frequency electrical signals by means of two concentric conductors separated by an insulator (7)
6 Analgesic and narcotic drug obtained from the seed capsules of the plant Papaver somniferum (5)
Oldest academic honour society in the US, founded in 1776 and a secret society until 1831 (3,4,5)
Repeat fee for the broadcast of a filmed work, paid to an actor, writer, director etc. (8)
9 SI unit of solid angle, used in threedimensional geometry for objects such as spheres (9)
16 Radioactive metallic element of the actinide series occurring as a decay product of uranium; atomic no. 91 (12)
17 Ductless lymphoid organ at the base of the neck that begins to shrink at the onset of puberty (6)
19 Anglo-Saxon kingdom of central and southern England that reached its peak during the reign of King Offa (757-96) (6)
21 Of a triangle, having two sides of the same
length; from Greek, ‘equal leg’ (9)
25 Any quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder that included the apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs (8)
Minute disc-shaped cell in blood involved in clotting, also known as a thrombocyte (8)
28 Largest island of American Samoa, in the SW Pacific NE of 11 Across (7)
Largest of the three species of oryx, or straight-horned antelope, found on the plains of Africa; Oryx gazella (7)
‘Here shall he see/No enemy/But winter and rough ___’ (Shakespeare As You Like It, 1599) (7)
Standard monetary unit of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius and the Seychelles; from Sanskrit, ‘wrought silver’ (5)