BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 US modernist composer whose Symphony No.
3 won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1947 (7,4)
6 South American plant of the nightshade family closely related to the aubergine; Lycopersicum solanum (6)
9 UNESCO World Heritage site in W Italy, selected in 1997 along with Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (7)
10 First of the two vice presidents of US president Richard Nixon, succeeded by Gerald Ford in 1973 (5,5)
11 J.P. ___ (1893-1960), US novelist who created the Japanese detective/secret agent Mr. Moto (8)
12 See 15 Down
13 Unit of volume for cut wood, especially
firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4)
16 Large northern constellation of the Perseus
family known as the Charioteer (6)
19 See 29 Down
21 Synthetic chemical element with the highest atomic number (118), formally named on November 28 2016 (9)
22 City that replaced Koror City as the capital of
Palau in 2006 (9)
23 and 19 Down US actor who played informant Huggy Bear on the 1975-79 US cop show Starsky & Hutch (7,6)
24 Beautiful mortal princess who married Eros and
became the goddess of the soul (6)
25 Any of the three goddesses of fate in Norse mythology, usually named as Urd, Verdandi and Skuld (4)
26 Fossilised resin of extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, commonly used as a gemstone (5)
27 Small fast-swimming tuna of tropical waters;
Katsuwonus, or Euthynnus, pelamis (8)
32 Notechis scutatus, family Elapidae, found in
coastal regions of southern Australia (5,5)
33 Second part of the small intestine, located
between the duodenum and the ileum (7)
34 Sixth album by English rock band Pink Floyd (1971), featuring the singles ‘One of These Days’ and ‘Fearless’ (6)
35 1961-9 British espionage series originally
starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee (3,8) DOWN 1 (To be performed) in a free and lively manner (11)
2 Phonetic symbol (ŋ) representing a velar nasal consonant, as in the ng of thing (4) 3 Genus of chiefly South African flowering plants to which the heaths belong (5)
4 Longest river of Poland, on whose banks
Warsaw is situated (7)
5 In horticulture, a shoot or twig of a plant used
for grafting to a stock (5)
6 System of weight units based on the grain, used mainly for precious metals and gemstones (4)
7 Norwegian chess grandmaster who successfully defended his world title in December 2021 (6,7)
8 Type of well in which Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie lived in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (7)
14 1978 zombie horror film written and directed by
George A. Romero (4,2,3,4)
15 and 12 Across Thin clear fluid secreted by the stomach to aid digestion, containing hydrochloric acid, pepsin etc. (7,5)
17 Gioachino ___, Italian composer of operas including The Barber of Seville (1816) and William Tell (1829) (7)
18 European space probe that made a close survey of the nucleus of Halley’s Comet on March 13 1986 (6)
19 See 23 Across
20 Last Charlie Chaplin film to feature his iconic
Little Tramp character, released in 1936 (6,5)
23 Large, often ornamented, wardrobe or cabinet,
originally used for storing weapons (7)
24 Capital city of French Polynesia, on the NW
coast of Tahiti (7)
28 Type of strong brown wrapping paper invented by German chemist Carl F. Dahl in 1879; literally, ‘strength’ (5)
29 and 19 Across Milk fat soured with lactic acid bacteria, notably produced in the Normandy region of NW France (5,7)
30 Arthur ___, US tennis player who won the US
Open in 1968 and Wimbledon in 1975 (4)
31 Part of the body to which the adjective
genicular refers (4)