BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 US Republican president assassinated in office
by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901 (7,8)
10 Large genus of daisy-like plants of the family Asteraceae (composites) commonly known as the fleabanes (8)
11 Red light-sensitive pigment in the retinal rods of humans and other vertebrates; also called visual purple (9)
12 Heavy golden-coloured sherry whose name
means ‘scented’ in Spanish (7)
13 Charles ___ (1852-1938), British showman who organised the first dog show in London in 1886 (5)
15 Monetary unit of Croatia equal to one hundredth of a kuna; from the name of the linden (lime) tree (4)
16 Algonquian-speaking Native American people comprising the largest First Nation group in Canada (4)
17 Main stalk of an inflorescence, to which the
individual flowers are attached by pedicels (8)
18 See 15 Down
20 See 7 Down
22 Major river that flows directly into the Mediterranean Sea, rising in the Swiss Alps upstream from Lake Geneva (5)
25 Unstressed central vowel of a word, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol (5)
27 Character voiced by Tony Shalhoub in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its 2016 sequel Out of the Shadows (8)
28 Alternative name for an umbrella, from a character in Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) who regularly carried one (4)
30 Twelfth civil and sixth religious month of the Jewish year, usually falling within August and September (4)
32 Medieval helmet with a visor and neck guard, developed in the fifteenth century to replace the basinet (5)
33 Hard smooth-textured cheese first produced in its modern form by Somerset dairyman Joseph Harding in the 1800s (7)
35 Extinct hominid that lived around 750,000 years ago, known from fossils found at Zhoukoudian near Beijing between 1929 and 1937 (6,3)
36 Function word associated with another to impart meaning, e.g. ‘up’ in the phrase ‘blow up’ (8)
37 Plateau in E Canada between the city of Quebec and the St Lawrence River; scene of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years’ War (6,2,7)
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2 English author of novels including the Booker
Prize-winning The Sea, the Sea (1978) (4,7)
3 Of or pertaining to proprietary rather than
personal rights; Latin, ‘against a thing’ (2,3)
4 US comedy drama film for which Youn Yuh-jung won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2021 (6)
5 British chieftain who led a resistance against the Romans c. 43–50; son of Cunobelinus, better known as Cymbeline (9)
6 Each of two or more forms of a chemical element whose nuclei contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons (7)
7 and 20 Across State on the Atlantic coast of east
Brazil; capital, Vitória (8,5)
8 Extract from a text, especially a passage from
the Bible read at a religious service (8)
9 Title character and friend of Bassanio in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (159697) (7)
14 Vast treeless Arctic plain with permanently frozen subsoil, supporting the world’s coldest and driest biome (6)
15 and 18 Across Italian lettuce variety with curly purple-tipped leaves and a slightly bitter taste; ‘red husk’ (5,5)
18 Turquoise Mexican Muppet on TV’s Sesame
Street performed by Carmen Osbahr (6)
19 Italian dish of veal wrapped in ham and sage leaves, then cooked in wine; literally, ‘leap into the mouth’ (11)
21 Former (until 2008) monarchy of southern Asia in which Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born c. 563 BC (5)
23 Artificial international language introduced by Polish linguist and physician L. L. Zamenhof in 1887; ‘one who hopes’ (9)
24 Musical note having the time value of a quarter
of a semibreve or half a minim (8)
25 Omission of a letter or syllable from the middle of a word, as in the common pronunciations of Wednesday, library etc. (7)
26 Energy-generating structure whose innovations include the fantail, invented by English blacksmith Edmund Lee in 1745 (8)
29 In Zoroastrianism, the supreme evil spirit and
opponent of Ahura Mazda (Ormazd) (7)
31 Latin satire written by English scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More in 1516; from Greek, ‘no place’ (6)
34 Albrecht ___ (1471-1528), foremost artist of the German Renaissance; Saint Jerome in his Study (engraving, 1514), The Four Apostles (painting, 1526) etc. (5)