BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
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1 In computing, a set of instructions in a programming language to be compiled or assembled into an executable form (6,4) 5 Across, 4 Down, 36 Across Character played by Russell Crowe in the 2000 film Gladiator (7,7,8) 10 Russian-born US singer and actor who starred in the first full-length talking film (The Jazz Singer, 1927) (2,6) 11 Marine or freshwater European food fish also known as the sparling, family Osmeridae (5) 12 Uppermost and widest of the three sections of the hipbone, fused with the ischium and pubis (5) 13 Second-smallest of the constellations, whose name means ‘little horse’ in Latin (8) 14 Joe ___, US boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 to 1949 (5) 15 Order of chiefly aquatic crustaceans that includes the gribble and the woodlouse (7) 18 Cleric or lay member of a religious group attached to a private chapel or ministering to an institution, ship, regiment etc. (8) 20 Monetary unit of Zambia worth one hundredth of a kwacha (5) 22 ‘So ___ and fair a day I have not seen’ (Shakespeare Macbeth (1606)) (4) 23 Prophetic book of the Old Testament attributed to ‘a shepherd from the town of Tekoa’ (4) 24 Most prominent projection of the occipital bone at the base of the skull, used as a point of measurement in craniometry (5) 27 Fourth compartment of a ruminant mammal’s stomach, in which rennet is produced (8) 29 Coarse fabric made of silk mixed with wool or mohair, often stiffened with gum (7) 31 Angel in Jewish apocryphal writings described in Milton’s Paradise Lost as ‘Regent of the Sun’ (5) 32 Hormone produced in the duodenum that stimulates the production of digestive enzymes in the pancreas and bile in the liver (8) 34 Android science officer in the US sci-fi series The Orville, played by Mark Jackson (5) 35 Low-resistance conductor in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of its current (5) 36 See 5 37 Any jumping insect of the family Gryllidae, related to the grasshoppers (7) 38 Valentina ___, Russian cosmonaut who became the first woman in space (1963) (10)
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1 Ancient language of India chiefly written in the Devanagari script (8) 2 Fillet of raw herring wrapped around an onion slice or pickle and marinated in spiced vinegar; from Germany (7) 3 Diacritical mark written under the letter c in French and Portuguese to indicate an s rather than k pronunciation (7) 4 See 5 Across 6 Region and former province in the Loire valley of western France (5) 7 2020 comedy drama film starring Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (12) 8 Maximum-security prison in the village of Ossining, New York, formerly infamous for its harsh conditions (4,4) 9 British navigator and explorer who explored the eastern coast of Australia in 1770 (5,4) 16 Structure in the cochlea of the inner ear whose hair cells transform sound energy into nerve impulses (5,2,5) 17 Chart-topping 1977 hit by Fleetwood Mac covered by The Corrs in 1998 (6) 19 North-flowing river of central France that joins the Loire west of the city of Nevers (6) 21 Theory or system of social organisation that replaces private property with collective ownership (9) 25 Dark sweet Italian vinegar made from the juice of grapes aged in wooden barrels over a number of years (8) 26 Moon of Jupiter, discovered by US astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892 (8) 28 Large African mammal known in medieval times as the camelopard (7) 29 White crystalline monosaccharide sugar whose most common form is dextrose (7) 30 Large short-winged bird of prey of Europe, Asia, and North America classified as Accipiter gentilis (7) 33 Taxonomic group ranking above a genus and below a family or subfamily (5)