BIG X-WORD
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1 Fifth president of the United States, known as the ‘Last of the Cocked Hats’ (5,6)
6 Michel ___, French statesman: Prime minister from 1988-91 (6)
9 Small silvery marine food fish of the sardine family; Clupea harengus (7)
10 State capital of Rhode Island, at the head of Narragansett Bay (10)
11 Coastal road, especially one cut into the face of a cliff (8)
12 Roman goddess of the hearth and household, counterpart of the Greek Hestia (5)
13 Third-oldest university in America, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in
1701 (4)
16 Emissary of the Pope, especially one representing the Vatican in a foreign state (6)
19 Greek herald in the Trojan War whose ‘voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men’ (Homer, Iliad) (7)
21 2017 British drama film starring Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson (9)
22 1999 science fiction film starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne (3,6)
23 Sacrament in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches in which a person confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution (7)
24 Member of a confederacy
of Native American peoples formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas and now mainly in Oklahoma (6)
25 Large jug with a wide spout; from Latin via
French, ‘of water’ (4)
26 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet, transliterated as o (5)
27 Publicly declared principles and aims of a political party or candidate (8)
32 Creator and star of the US comedy-drama series
Girls (4,6)
33 Greek island of the
Cyclades group lying between Tinos, Syros,
Paros and Naxos (7)
34 Clear brandy distilled from fermented cherries, originating in Germany (6)
35 Character played by
Jennifer Aniston in the US sitcom Friends (6,5)
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1 English author of novels including The Day Of The Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (4,7)
2 Aldo ___, prime minister of Italy from 1963-68 and 1974-76 (4)
3 Tropical Asian fruit tree of the cashew family; Mangifera indica (5)
4 Repeated passage, or a return to an earlier theme; French, literally ‘taken up again’ (7)
5 Eldest son of Cain, after
whom the first city was
named (5)
6 1966 Beatles song released as the B-side of ‘Paperback Writer’ (4)
7 British Labour prime minister (1945–51) preceded and succeeded by Winston Churchill (7,6)
8 Charles ___, US seismologist who devised a scale for earthquake measurement in 1935 (7)
14 Pennisetum purpureum, cultivated in Africa as a fodder plant (8,5)
15 Ingmar ___, Swedish director of films including The Seventh Seal and Hour Of The Wolf (7)
17 Largest island of Sweden, south-east of the mainland in the Baltic Sea (7)
18 Electronic dance music characterised by repetitive hypnotic rhythms and sounds (6)
19 & 30 Down Actress who plays Erin Lindsay in the police drama series
Chicago P.D. (6,4)
20 English actor in films including My Fair Lady and Dr Dolittle (3,8)
23 Italian city south-east of Naples buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (7)
24 River of the E central US forming part of the border between Maryland and
West Virginia (7)
28 Franz ___, Hungarian composer of operettas including The Merry
Widow (5) 29 Standard monetary unit of Qatar (100 dirhams) and Saudi Arabia (100 halalah) (5)
30 See 19 Down
31 Second daughter of Sir
Walter Elliot in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, sister of Elizabeth and Mary (4)