BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plant genus of the family Amaryllidaceae that includes the jonquil and daffodil (9) 5 Highest navigable lake in the world, in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru (8) 9 Archangel who conquered the demon Asmodeus in the apocryphal Old Testament book of Tobit (7)

10 Government by bishops, as in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches (10) 11 (Sung) without instrumental accompaniment; Italian, ‘in the chapel style’ (1,8) 12 Japanese city known before 1868 as Edo (‘gate of the estuary’) (5)

13 ‘No, ‘tis not so deep as a ___’ (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (1595)) (4)

15 Coffee made by adding frothed hot milk to a shot of espresso, milkier than a cappuccino (5) 17 Patron saint of England, reputed in legend to have slain a dragon in ancient Libya (6) 19 Capital and largest city of Mongolia, formerly (until 1924) called Urga (4,5)

21 US singer, songwriter and guitarist born Ellas Bates in 1928; ‘Who Do You Love?’ (1956), ‘Ooh Baby’ (1966) etc. (2,7)

22 Italian Benedictine monk known as the father of scholasticism; Archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109 (6)

23 Muse of lyric and love poetry in Greek mythology, whose name means ‘lovely’ (5) 27 Soft sensitive mass of nerves and blood cells at the centre of a tooth (4)

28 and 3 Down Oscar-winning star of the 1940 romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story (5,7) 29 Director of the 2020 Marvel superhero film The New Mutants (4,5)

33 Strap or straps on a horse’s harness connecting the girth to the reins, used to restrict head movement (10) 34 Fourth-longest river of Africa, on which the Victoria Falls are located (7)

35 Chinese diplomat instrumental in normalising relations with the US and Japan in the latter half of the 20th century; Minister of Foreign Affairs 1976-83 (5,3)

36 Any ‘cold-blooded’ animal that relies on external heat sources to regulate its body temperature (9)

DOWN

1 Of a railway track, having less than the standard 1.435m distance between the lines (6,5) 2 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film starring 28 Across as Rupert Cadell (4)

3 See 28 Across

4 Standard monetary unit of modern Israel, divided into 100 agorot (6)

5 Textile weave in which the weft yarns are worked around two or more warp yarns, creating a pattern of parallel diagonal lines (5) 6 Course of a sailing ship in relation to the side of the sail against which the wind is blowing (4) 7 Rocky promontory of south-western South Africa rounded by Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 (4,2,4,4)

8 Small triangular bone at the base of the vertebral column representing a vestigial tail (6) 11 Scottish-born lawman who founded a famous private detective agency in Chicago in 1950 (5,9)

14 Large mild-tasting white radish (Raphanus sativus longipinnatus) also called daikon (5) 16 Name, especially of a place, derived from that of a real or mythical person (6) 17 Complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell, organism, virus etc. (6) 18 Enlargement at the base of a style, as in umbelliferous plants (11)

20 Edward ___, US playwright; Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Three Tall Women (1990) etc. (5)

24 Edible fruit of the tropical evergreen tree Persea americana, often served in salads (7) 25 Residence of the title character in the 1816 Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan (6) 26 Satellite of Saturn, discovered by US astronomer William Henry Pickering in 1899 (6) 30 Largest city of Nebraska, on the west bank of the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs, Iowa (5)

31 Imperial unit of length formerly defined as 3 barleycorns or 12 poppyseeds (4)

32 Ballet jump with various forms in which a dancer springs from one foot to land on the other; French, ‘thrown’ (4)