BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Electrical impulses in the cerebrum, measured in hertz (10)
5 2013 science fiction thriller film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney (7) 10 Roman name for York, from the Brittonic for ‘place of the yew trees’ (8)
11 and 33 down Upper house of the bicameral parliament of India; Hindi, ‘state assembly’ (5,5) 12 ‘The hungry ___ look up, and are not fed’ (John Milton ‘Lycidas’ (1638) l. 125) (5)
13 Use of more words than are necessary to convey a meaning, as in hear with one’s ears (8) 14 Genre of electronic dance music originating in London in the early 2000s, combining elements of garage, jungle etc. (5) 15 Organised sporting event consisting of a series of boat or yacht races (7) 18 Variable resistor used to control the flow of current in an electric circuit (8)
20 Resort city of SW Russia that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics (5)
22 Tau cross with a looped top, used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of eternal life (4) 23 Monetary unit of Angola worth one hundredth of a kwanza (4)
24 Main artery of the body, carrying blood from the left ventricle of heart to all parts of the body except the lungs (5)
27 1989 James Cameron science fiction film starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (3,5)
29 Form of address in Portuguese equivalent to the English ‘Mrs’ (7)
31 Unit of geological time forming part of a period and subdivided into ages (5)
32 City of NW India in which the principal shrine of Sikhism, the Golden Temple, is located (8) 34 János ___, Hungarian statesman; Prime Minister 1956–58 and 1961–65 and first secretary of the Communist Party 1956–88 (5) 35 Heroine of the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, voiced by Paige O’Hara (5) 36 Capital of the Isère department in SE France, on the Isère River (8)
37 First of the active communications satellites, launched by the US in 1962 and used to relay television and telephone signals across the Atlantic (7)
38 Sodium bicarbonate, used as a leavening agent, an antacid etc. (6,4)
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1 Two conflicts between Britain and South Africa, 1880–81 and 1899–1902 (4,4) 2 Ancient region on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea including parts of present-day Croatia, Montenegro and Albania (7) 3 Popular novel or drama depicting English middle-class life in a semi-rural setting (3,4)
4 Of a memory, possessing unusual vividness and detail as if actually visible (7) 6 Largest river of France by water volume, originating in the Swiss Alps upstream from Lake Geneva (5)
7 2019 horror film starring James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain (2,7,3)
8 Isoroku ___ (1884–1943), Japanese Navy admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (8)
9 Hard highly-seasoned pork and beef sausage served especially on pizzas (9)
16 English author of whom a statue was unveiled outside the BBC’s headquarters, Broadcasting House, in 2017 (6,6)
17 1895 novel by George du Maurier in which the character Svengali appears (6) 19 Colourless odourless gaseous alkane found in petroleum and natural gas, used as a fuel (6) 21 Member of a group of ancient Norse warriors who fought with wild or uncontrolled ferocity (9)
25 Poker hand consisting of five cards of sequential rank, irrespective of suit (8) 26 Genus of flowering plants in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) that includes Cape jasmine (8) 28 Landlocked country of SE Europe bordered on the north, east and south by Ukraine and on the west by Romania (7)
29 Compact medium-sized dog of Chinese origin whose name literally means ‘sand skin’ (4,3) 30 Bone of the upper arm that connects the scapula with the radius and the ulna (7) 33 See 11 Across