BIG X-WORD

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1896 Anton Chekhov play featuring the writer Boris Trigorin (3,7)

5 US comedy-drama series (2015-2018) starring Michael Dorman and Aliette Opheim (7)

10 President of Botswana succeeded by Mokgweetsi Masisi in April 2018 (3,5)

11 Plant genus of the family Asteraceae that includes British yellowhead and elecampane (5)

12 In mathematics, proposition assumed to be true for the purpose of a chain of reasoning (5)

13 Large gland behind the stomach that secretes digestive enzymes into the duodenum (8)

14 First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, originally a pictograph of an ox head (5)

15 Long sandy peninsula of SE Massachusetts north of Nantucket Sound (4,3)

18 Parliamentary constituency represented by NHS founder Aneurin Bevan from 1929 to 1960 (4,4)

20 Member of a Native American people who lived in Mexico before the Mayas (c. 1200–400 BC) (5)

22 Old unit of length based on the width of an outspread hand, usually taken as nine inches (4)

23 1995 crime drama film starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer (4)

24 Largest island in the Persian

Gulf, in the Strait of Hormuz; part of Iran (5)

27 French socialist statesman; Prime Minister 1936–7, 1938 and 1946–7 (4,4)

29 Ballroom dance in quadruple time of which the quickstep is a variety (7)

31 ‘Look homeward ___ now, and melt with ruth’ (John Milton ‘Lycidas’ (1638) l.

163) (5)

32 Any New World monkey of the genus Cebus, typically having a cowl-like cap of hair on the top of the head (8)

34 Single-masted sailing vessel with a mainsail and jib rigged fore and aft; from Dutch (5)

35 Slender part of a flower’s pistil connecting the stigma and the ovary (5)

36 Optical device for projecting images of opaque objects such as printed pages or photographs onto a screen using reflected light (8)

37 Siberian dog breed of the spitz type having a thick white coat and tightly curled tail (7)

38 Wife of Hector in Greek mythology, to whom she bore the son Astyanax (10)

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Highest lake in the world, in the Andes between S Peru and W Bolivia (8)

2 Of a triangle, having all sides

of unequal length (7)

3 In Arthurian legend, the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic (7)

4 Of a company, owned by shareholders whose liability for its debts or losses is restricted (7)

6 Shmuel Yosef ___, Israeli novelist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in

1966 (5)

7 Protagonist of the 1881 Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (6,6)

8 Conveyance of rights or property from one person to another (8)

9 Character played by Peter Graves on TV’S Mission: Impossible from 1967-73 and 1988-90 (3,6)

16 Occurrence of more than one form among members of an interbreeding population or in the life cycle of an individual organism (12)

17 Purplish dye obtained from certain lichens, also called cudbear (6)

19 Thane of Lochaber and father of Fleance in Shakespeare’s

Macbeth (1606) (6)

21 Arm of the South Pacific between SE Australia and NW New Zealand (6,3)

25 2018 comedy film starring Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena (8)

26 Prehistoric period in human culture usually divided into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic stages (5,3)

28 Nickname given to a citizen of ancient Rome, often in honour of military victories (7)

29 Broad flat limb of an animal

such as a penguin, seal or turtle adapted for swimming (7)

30 Crispy deep-fried tortilla topped with meat, cheese, beans etc; Spanish,

‘toasted’ (7)

33 Robert ___ (1635–1703), English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity in 1678 (5)