BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 US release title of a 1965 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley and Mary Ann Mobley (5,6)

6 In trigonometry, the ratio of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle to that of the adjacent side; the reciprocal of the cosine (6)

9 See 23 Down

10 Capital city and chief port of Guyana, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Demerara River (10)

11 Slavic alphabet derived from Greek in the 9th century, used for Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian etc. (8)

12 State of NE India whose capital was moved

from Shillong to Dispur in 1972 (5)

13 Most malleable and ductile of the metallic elements, alloyed with silver to make electrum (4)

16 Part of an insurance claim stipulated in a

policy to be payable by the policyholder (6)

19 Tropical American vine of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) cultivated for its edible fruits and tubers; Sechium edule (7)

21 Of or belonging to the largest order of birds,

known as the perching birds or songbirds (9)

22 Wine steward, typically in a fine restaurant;

French, literally, ‘butler’ (9)

23 Second-largest sports stadium in Europe after

Spain’s Camp Nou, seating 90,000 people (7)

24 Name by which Sri Lanka was formally known

until 1972 (6)

25 Sister of Pygmalion who founded and ruled

the city of Carthage (4)

26 Refuse of cloth such as wool or cotton used as

stuffing material for bedding, cushions etc. (5)

27 US rock band whose hits include ‘We Built This City’ (1985) and ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now’ (1987) (8)

32 Largest coral atoll in the world, in the central Pacific; formerly (until 1981) called Christmas Island (10)

33 Psalm or anthem sung while the priest approaches the altar to celebrate Mass or Holy Communion (7)

34 Diacritical mark (¨) used over vowels, especially in German, to indicate modification by an adjacent sound (6)

35 Prairie region of the south central US affected by severe soil erosion in the early

1930s (3,4,4)

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1 Writing of the lives of saints, or a volume

thus produced (11)

2 Martin ___, British Astronomer Royal 1972–82; Nobel Prize for Physics (1974, with Antony Hewish) (4)

3 and 31 US singer-songwriter who performed with his second wife Cher from 1964 to 1977 (5,4)

4 Brightest star of the constellation Leo,

named from Latin word for little king (7)

5 Long white radish of East Asia also called

daikon (5)

6 Edible starch obtained from the powdered pith of the tropical palm tree Metroxylon sagu, used for puddings and as a thickening agent (4)

7 Director of the upcoming 2021 superhero

film Black Widow (4,9)

8 Former London prison (1188-1902) on whose

site the Old Bailey now stands (7)

14 In classical drama, a god introduced into a

play to unravel and resolve the plot (4,2,7)

15 Black or brown substance produced by slowly heating sugar to the point at which its molecules break down and reform (7)

17 Petals of a flower collectively, combining

with the calyx to form the perianth (7)

18 ‘My soul, there is a country/|Far beyond the stars/Where stands a wingèd ___’ (Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans (1650-5) ‘Peace’) (6)

19 Predatory canine mammal of North America also known as the prairie wolf; Canis latrans (6)

20 British artist who created the comic strip

Rupert Bear in 1920 (4,7)

23 and 9 Across Nobel Prize-winning English author of novels including Lord of the Flies (1954) and Rites of Passage (1980) (7,7)

24 Flowing handwriting style in which letters are joined together, typically resulting in rounded angles and a slight slant (7)

28 Short treatise or pamphlet, especially on

a religious or political topic (5)

29 Hammond ___, British thriller writer; Snowbound (1948), Hell Below Zero (1954) etc. (5)

30 Bicameral legislature of Japan, consisting of the House of Representatives (Shugiin) and the House of Councillors (Sangiin) (4)

31 See 3