BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 In the Church of England, the chairperson of the lower house of the Convocations of Canterbury and York (10)

5 Cocktail of brandy, orange liqueur and lemon juice, often served in a sugar-rimmed glass (7)

10 Brightest star in the northern hemisphere, in

the constellation of Boötes (8)

11 Genus of trees and shrubs of the family

Salicaceae to which the willows belong (5)

12 Antagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937), ‘a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm’ (5)

13 Large area of North America’s Great Plains affected by severe soil erosion in the 1930s (4,4)

14 & 29 Down Character played by Jennifer Saunders in the 1992-2012 sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (5,7)

15 & 18 Oscar-winning star of the 1933 British

film The Private Life of Henry VIII (7,8)

20 Of a musical scale, having a semitone interval between the second and third degrees, and the fifth and sixth (5)

22 Princess of Arendelle in the Frozen film

franchise (2013-19), voiced by Kristen Bell (4)

23 Meteorological phenomenon measured by

an anemometer (4)

24 Frederick ___, British Conservative prime minister from 1770–82 whose policies contributed to the loss of the American colonies (5)

27 Moral fable, especially one having animals or

inanimate objects as characters (8)

29 State capital of Wisconsin, named after the

fourth president of the United States (7)

31 See 33 Down

32 Greatest of the Greek warriors in the Trojan War; son of the mortal king Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis (8)

34 ’He jests at ___ that never felt a wound’ (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet act 2, sc. 2) (5)

35 Marked track of compacted snow used in

mountain sports such as skiing (5)

36 Hot curry of Goan origin likely named from the Portuguese for ‘wine and garlic sauce’ (8)

37 Siegfried ___, English war poet, volumes of

whose fictionalised autobiography were published as The Memoirs of George Sherston (1937) (7)

38 US singer, actor and comedian born Dino

Paul Crocetti in 1917 (4,6)

DOWN

1 Valve-controlled conduit for conveying

water, as to a hydroelectric plant (8)

2 ___ flow, non-turbulent motion in fluid dynamics, in which attributes such as velocity and pressure remain constant (7)

3 1922 James Joyce novel whose action

occurs in Dublin on June 16, 1904 (7)

4 Smallest and easternmost of North

America’s five Great Lakes (7)

6 Middle of the three small bones in the middle ear (tympanum) that transmit sound from the eardrum to the cochlea (5)

7 Cloud type forming a thin hazy layer in the upper troposphere, typically at altitudes of 6-13km (20,000-43,000 ft) (12)

8 Heroine of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, who disguised herself as the shepherd Ganymede (8)

9 & 21 Down Former prime minister of Sweden who formally resigned on September 15, 2022 (9,9)

16 Greek playwright, known as the Father of Comedy, whose complete extant works include Lysistrata (411 BC) and The Frogs (405 BC) (12)

17 Any of the nearly 2000 species of insect comprising the order Dermaptera, including the common European Forficula auricularia (6)

19 Country described by Winston Churchill in

1908 as ‘the Pearl of Africa’ (6)

21 See 9 Down

25 Person or thing of a kind seldom

encountered; Latin, ‘rare bird’ (4,4)

26 Third track on the 1973 Pink Floyd album

The Dark Side of the Moon (2,3,3)

28 Phoenician goddess of love, fertility and war worshipped from the Bronze Age to classical antiquity; counterpart of the Mesopotamian Ishtar (7)

29 See 14 Across

30 First type of tooth to appear in babies,

typically developing at 6-10 months (7)

33 & 31 Across Curly-leaved variety of lettuce

whose name is Italian for ‘red husk’ (5,5)