BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
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1 1919 play by George Bernard Shaw subtitled ‘A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes’ (10,5)
10 Charles ___, Oscar-winning star of the 1933
film The Private Life of Henry VIII (8)
11 Musical direction to perform at a reduced
speed; Italian, ‘less rapid’ (4,5)
12 Brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and on average the 15th-brightest in the sky; from the Greek, ‘rival to Mars’ (7)
13 See 21 Down
15 German song form popularised by composers such as Schubert, Brahms and Schumann, typically written for solo voice with piano accompaniment (4)
16 and 32 Principal antagonist of the 1985 film
Rocky IV, played by Dolph Lundgren (4,5)
17 Edible fruit of the tropical American tree Annona squamosa, also known as the sugar apple (8)
18 Dog owned by Little Orphan Annie in the 1924-2010 comic strip of that name by US cartoonist Harold Gray (5)
20 ‘I am the daughter of ___ and Water’ (Percy
Bysshe Shelley ‘The Cloud’ (1819) l. 73) (5)
22 Class of noun that identifies the person or
thing performing the action of a verb (5)
25 Largest island in the Firth of Clyde, separated from the Inner Hebrides by the Kintyre peninsula (5)
27 Financial term derived from poker, used to
describe stable, low-risk investments (4,4)
28 Second-largest island of Hawaii, separated from Hawaii itself by the Alenuihaha Channel (4)
30 Soft fibrous tissue constituting the middle layer of the mesocarp of a citrus fruit (hesperidium) (4)
32 See 16
33 Largest number within a subset that is less
than or equal to all of its elements (7)
35 Chief island of the Cook Islands, on which the
national capital (Avarua) is located (9)
36 Fine translucent cotton fabric stiffened by starching or an acid wash, used especially for dresses (8)
37 Archipelago of northern Russia separated from Siberia by the Vilkitsky Strait; ‘northern land’ (9,6)
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2 Prime minister of 7 Down who succeeded Igor
Matoviè on 1 April 2021 (6,5)
3 Emperor of Rome (78-81 AD) during whose reign Vesuvius erupted and the Colosseum was completed (5)
4 Referral of a legal dispute to the jurisdiction of
another country or state (6)
5 Violet-red variety of garnet known as a carbuncle when cut with a rounded convex face (en cabochon) (9)
6 Capital and largest city of the Solomon
Islands, on the NW coast of Guadalcanal (7)
7 Landlocked country of central Europe ruled by
Hungary from the 11th century until 1918 (8)
8 Use of more words than necessary to convey a
meaning, or a word used superfluously (8)
9 Leo ___, Russian author nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1909 (7)
14 Tropical climbing plant of the palm family whose stems are used for wickerwork; several genera, especially Calamus (6)
15 Sergio ___, Italian director whose A Fistful of Dollars (1964) created the genre of the spaghetti western (5)
18 In heraldry, a framing insignia for a coat of
arms also known as an escutcheon (6)
19 1946 musical biopic starring Cary Grant as
composer and songwriter Cole Porter (5,3,3)
21 and 13 Across US lawyer and consumer rights advocate who ran for president in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 (5,5)
23 Scriptural canon of Theravada Buddhism, comprising the sutras, Vinaya and Abhidharma; Pali, ‘three baskets’ (9)
24 Projecting tooth on the rim of a wheel that
engages with chain links, holes in film etc. (8)
25 City in North Africa founded in 944 AD; Arabic,
‘the Islands’ (7)
26 Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta and sister of
Polynices, Eteocles and Ismene (8)
29 In former times, a distributor of charitable donations to the needy, especially on behalf of a church, monastery etc. (7)
31 Port city south-west of Seattle in W Washington, on Puget Sound near the base of Mount Rainier (6)
34 Brass wind instrument named from the
Latin-derived Old French word for a bullock (5)