BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Name by which Suriname was known during the 19th and 20th centuries (5,6) 6 Capital city of the Bahamas, on the NE coast of the island of New Providence (6) 9 Component of an electric kettle, cooker etc. that heats up when an electric current is passed through it (7)

10 Instrument used to measure the intensity and frequency range of sound perceivable by the human ear (10)

11 New term coined to restore the original meaning of a word now commonly used to indicate something else, as in snail mail and acoustic guitar (8)

12 Preliminary certificate that represents a claim to part of a share of stock (5)

13 Spanish sparkling wine made in a similar way to champagne, chiefly in the Penedès region of southern Catalonia (4)

16 Charlotte ___, French Girondist revolutionary who assassinated Jean Paul Marat in 1793 (6) 19 Commercially valuable salmon of the North Pacific of which kokanee is a species; Oncorhynchus nerka (7)

21 Head of a government department in the former Soviet Union, known as minister since 1946 (9)

22 and 30 Down White crystalline compound occurring naturally in many plants, used in the manufacture of aspirin, fungicides etc. (9,4) 23 Japanese dish of thinly-sliced raw fish served with grated radish and soy sauce (7)

24 Tall penguin of subantarctic islands with a white triangular patch above each eye; Pygoscelis papua (6)

25 Demon that possessed Sigourney Weaver’s Dana Barrett in 1984’s Ghostbusters (4) 26 Jewish pancake made with grated potato, traditionally prepared to celebrate Hanukkah (5) 27 Obstruction of an artery, typically by a blood clot or an air bubble (8)

32 All the courses of study offered by an educational institution; Latin, ‘course’ (10) 33 Former currency unit of Spain and Andorra worth one hundredth of a peseta (7)

34 In German mythology, a mischievous household sprite or one who haunts underground places such as mines (6) 35 British Whig statesman who served as prime minister from 1743 to 1754 (5,6)

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1 First tier of seats above the ground floor in a theatre, originally intended for people in eveningwear (5,6)

2 Archaic or dialect form of you; the objective form of thou (4)

3 Character played by Will Smith in the 2019 musical fantasy film Aladdin (5)

4 Branch of science concerned with the physical structure of animals and plants, especially as revealed by dissection (7)

5 Reverend W. ___, British author who created Thomas the Tank Engine in 1945 (5)

6 Inert gaseous element that emits a reddish glow when exposed to an electric current at low pressure (4)

7 Collection of short stories ‘Illustrative of EveryDay Life And Every-Day People’ published by Charles Dickens in 1836 (8,2,3)

8 One of the four purine bases in nucleic acids, along with guanine, cytosine and thymine (7) 14 First president of Indonesia (1945-67), born Kusno Sosrodihardjo in 1901 (6,7) 15 Helmut ___, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1974 to 1982 (7)

17 Second-largest city of Argentina, in the east on the Paraná River (7)

18 Port and resort south-east of Naples in southern Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno (6) 19 Tall tropical herbaceous plant of the family Pedaliaceae cultivated for its oil-rich seeds; also known as benne (6)

20 Actress who voices Queen Barb in the 2020 animated film Trolls World Tour (6,5) 23 Japanese alloy of copper and gold traditionally used for sword fittings to give a blue-black patina (7)

24 Benny ___ (1909–86), US jazz clarinettist and bandleader known as the King of Swing (7) 28 Mixture of organic matter such as leaves, bark and straw used in horticulture to enrich or insulate soil (5)

29 ‘The hungry ___ look up, and are not fed’ (John Milton ‘Lycidas’ (1638)) (5)

30 See 22 Across

31 Adherent of an Indian religion that emerged from Hinduism in the 16th century; from Hindi, ‘disciple’ (4)