BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Inflammation of the tongue, often accompanied by reddening and a change in texture (9)

6 Hippy rabbit in the 1965-77 children’s TV series The Magic Roundabout, known as Flappy in the French original (5)

10 Arabic name of the influential astronomical treatise Mathematike Syntaxis (The Mathematical Arrangement), written by Ptolemy of Alexandria c. 150 AD (8)

11 Chief seasoning of a Hungarian goulash, obtained from the pods of Capsicum annuum plants (7)

12 & 28 Down Late-medieval association of German merchants and cities formed to protect trade, formally disbanded in 1862 (9,6)

13 & 15 Star of the 2022 adventure drama

film Beast (5,4)

16 Part of a passenger ship in which the

cheapest accommodation is located (8)

17 Proportion of solar light that a body such

as a planet, moon or asteroid reflects (6)

20 Any large flightless New Zealand bird of the recently extinct order Dinornithiformes, related to the tinamous (3)

22 2012 album by Taylor Swift re-recorded

and re-released in 2021 (3)

25 Max Ferdinand ___, Austrian-born British biochemist; shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies in the structure of haemoglobin (6)

26 Pseudonym of French writer, dramatist, and poet François-Marie Arouet (1694– 1778) (8)

29 Prefix denoting one billionth, from the

Greek for ‘dwarf’ (4)

30 & 4 Down English Poet Laureate from 1692 until his death, noted for a 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear (5,4)

31 Roman name for Scotland (9)

34 Japanese art form whose greatest practitioner is considered to be Akira Yoshizawa (1911-2005) (7)

35 Capital city of Turkmenistan, known

from 1919 to 1927 as Poltoratsk (8) 36 Youngest of the five Marx Brothers, born

Herbert in 1901 (5)

37 Fielding position in cricket on the on side

in line with the popping crease (6,3)

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2 Alternative name for the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), recently reintroduced to the Alps (11)

3 ’For some must watch, while some must

___’ (Shakespeare Hamlet act 3, sc.2) (5)

4 See 30 Across

5 Grass genus in the sorghum tribe (Andropogoneae) to which sugar cane belongs (9)

6 Sicilian shepherd of Greek myth, said to be the founder of pastoral, or bucolic, poetry (7)

7 & 27 Down Wife of the eponymous boxer in the Rocky film series, played by Talia Shire (6,7)

8 Perennials of the amaryllis family with

cup-shaped coronae, such as jonquils (8)

9 Instruction in music to play or sing with

emphasis; Italian, ‘marked’ (7)

14 Frozen dessert of sugar-sweetened water

flavoured with puréed fruit (6)

15 & 18 Husband of Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering

Heights (1847) (5,6)

19 US astronomer whose eponymous law states that the velocity of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from the observer (5,6)

21 Unofficial national dish of the Philippines,

whose name is Spanish for ‘marinade’ (5)

23 US singer who topped the UK charts with

‘I’m Still Waiting’ in 1971 (5,4)

24 Fortified wine whose sweet variety is blended with whisky and bitters to make a Manhattan cocktail (8)

25 Brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor, forming one corner of the Winter Triangle (7)

27 See 7 Down

28 See 12 Across

32 Brother of Gad in Genesis 30:10-13; the

younger of Jacob and Zilpah’s two sons (5)

33 Third-largest island of Hawaii, known as

‘The Gathering Place’ (4)