BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
8 days Kitzbühel Alpine Rally, Tyrol Trains
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Town of northern Conwy known as the ‘Queen of the Welsh Resorts’ (9)
Green-bodied European freshwater fish of the carp family; Tinca tinca (5)
Creamy Dutch liqueur made from eggs, sugar and brandy (8)
Zero handicap in golf, indicating that a player is good enough to achieve par on a course (7)
Antagonist of the 1985 film Rocky IV, played by Dolph Lundgren (4,5)
William ___, English religious leader who founded the Salvation Army (5)
Alternative name for the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) or its edible fruit (4)
Street in central London named after a croquet-like ball game played there in the 17th century (4,4)
Derived SI unit of pressure, equal to one newton per square metre (6)
Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter heth (3)
War god of Norse mythology after whom Tuesday is named (3)
In cricket, a line defining the positions of the batsman or bowler at the wicket (6)
Capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly (until 1966) called Léopoldville (8)
Device that transmits high voltage to the spark plugs in an internal-combustion engine (4)
Subunit of Israeli currency equal
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to one hundredth of a shekel (5)
Small round case of puff pastry filled with a savoury mixture; French, literally ‘flight in the wind’ (3-2-4)
Bird genus of the swallow family (Hirundinidae) that includes the sand martin (7)
Large firm dessert apple with red and green skin, first grown in New Zealand (8)
Capital of Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Bou Regreg River (5)
Duke ___ (1899–1974), US jazz pianist, composer and bandleader awarded a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999 (9)
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1695 play by William Congreve featuring Valentine Legend and his servant Jeremy (4,3,4)
‘___, the undiscovered country’ Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601 (5)
Android played by Brent Spiner in TV’s Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94) (4)
Secret dungeon accessible only through a trapdoor in its ceiling; from French, ‘to forget’ (9)
Region of west central Italy on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas; capital, Florence (7)
In yoga, one of the seven centres of spiritual power in the human body; Sanskrit, ‘wheel’ (6)
Periodic comet that passed close to the sun in the spring of 1997 (4-4)
London cricket ground that hosted
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the first FA Cup final in 1872 (3,4)
Thick paste or spread made from puréed chickpeas with garlic, lemon and sometimes tahini, originally from the Middle East (6)
2016 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring James McAvoy (5)
State of the north-western US known as ‘The Last Frontier’ (6)
Use of light and shade in painting and drawing, or the effect it produces (11)
Fourth-largest satellite of Uranus and twelfth-closest to the planet, discovered by William Lassell in 1851 (5)
Non-resistive component of impedance in an AC circuit, measured in ohms (9)
Pink powder consisting of zinc and ferric oxides, used medicinally to make soothing lotion or ointments (8)
Hill outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem on which Jesus was crucified (7)
Jackie ___, Scottish motor-racing driver who won the Formula One world championship in 1969, 1971 and 1973 (7)
Republic of Central America that gained independence from Colombia in 1903 (6)
‘Even while they teach, men ___’ (Seneca the Younger Epistulae Morales-Letters to Lucilius no. 7) (5)
King of Denmark from 1250 to 1252, succeeded by his younger brother Christopher I (4)
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