BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

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Lover of Robin Hood in English folklore (4,6)

Greek herald in the Trojan War with a proverbially loud voice (7)

Three-headed dog in Greek mythology that guarded the entrance to Hades (8)

Elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites (5)

Guitarist with rock band Guns N’ Roses from 1985-96 and again in 2016, born Saul Hudson in 1965 (5)

Kurt ___, Austrian statesman; Secretary General of the UN (1972–81) and President of Austria (1986-92) (8)

Emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912, born Mutsuhito; ‘enlightened rule’ (5)

Character played by Kevin Spacey in the 1995 film Seven (4,3)

Plant based oil used in Victorian and Edwardian times to make men’s hair smooth and shiny (8)

Hard yellow alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes with small amounts of other metals (5)

Eliot ___, Prohibition agent who led ‘The Untouchables’(4)

Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh (4)

State of NE India lying largely in the valley of the Brahmaputra River; capital, Dispur (5)

Venetian noble and cousin of

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Desdemona in Shakespeare’s Othello (8)

Flammable mix of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distillation of coal tar, petroleum etc (7)

Sergio ___, Italian director of films including Once Upon a Time in the West (5)

Of Italian wine, produced in the region from which the type takes its name (8)

and Star of the 2016 mystery drama film The Girl On The Train (5,5)

Journalist who co-hosted BBC Two’s Working Lunch from 1994 to 2008 (4,4)

British synthpop duo whose hits include ‘Sometimes’ and ‘Breathe’ (7)

Director of the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (4,6)

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Indian royal, especially the ruler of a state (8)

Singer-songwriter who had hits with ‘Mellow Yellow’ and ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’ (7)

Arthur ___, English author of novels including Swallows And Amazons (7)

Semitic official language of Ethiopia, of the Afro-Asiatic family (7)

Mountainous state of western Austria; capital, Innsbruck (5)

Channel between the Arafura and Coral Seas separating the northern tip of Australia from the island of New Guinea (6,6)

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Mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota on which the heads of four presidents are carved (8)

David ___, Robert Kardashian in the 2016 TV series American Crime Story (9)

Actor who played Oddjob in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger (6,6)

Italian noble family whose members include popes Celestine III, Nicholas III and Benedict XIII (6)

Winter muskmelon with a hard yellow rind and sweet white, yellow or orange flesh, similar to the honeydew (6)

Co-recipient (with Sir Henry Dale) of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses (4,5)

Cutting off of a place to prevent the passage of people, goods etc. (8)

Jean Paul ___, French fashion designer who released the dance single ‘How To Do That’ in 1988 (8)

Currency unit of Ukraine equal to one hundredth of a hryvna (7)

State of the north-eastern US in which the Ivy League universities Cornell and Columbia are located (3,4)

Edmund ___, New Zealand explorer who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953 (7)

Colourless fluid said to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology (5)

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