BIG MONDAY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Large mountain of central Greece sacred in ancient times to the gods Apollo and Dionysus (9)

5 & 9 Across Capital of the state of Sinaloa

in NW Mexico (8,7)

10 French motor-racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993 (5,5)

11 Complex structure of the inner ear comprising an osseous, or bony, part and a membranous part (9)

12 Dark fine-grained sedimentary rock formed by compression of successive layers of clay, mud etc. (5)

13 & 15 Across Turkish-born US director of the Oscar-winning films Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954) (4,5)

17 Watery yellow fluid that makes up

approximately 55% of human blood (6)

19 See 17 Down

21 See 24 Down

22 One of the three Graces in Greek mythology,

sister of Euphrosyne and Thalia (6)

23 Second-largest city of Uruguay, on the Uruguay River across from Concordia, Argentina (5)

27 Simple counter-moving board game whose

name means ‘I play’ in Latin (4)

28 Mary ___, English fashion designer credited with pioneering and naming the miniskirt in the 1960s (5)

29 Artificial sweetener discovered by Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg in 1879, used in food as the additive E954 (9)

33 Top-selling single in the UK in 1959, performed by Cliff Richard and the Drifters (6,4)

34 Jacques ___, French philosopher whose Of Grammatology (1967) originated the analytical technique of deconstruction (7)

35 Vitamin B1, also known as aneurin (8)

36 Swamp-dwelling African antelope also known

as the marshbuck; Tragelaphus spekii (9)

DOWN

1 Oldest US military decoration still in use, first awarded by George Washington in 1782 (6,5) 2 Twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet,

usually transliterated in English as ‘r’ (4)

3 & 4 Down Prime minister of Pakistan who succeeded Imran Khan on 11 April 2022 (7,6)

5 ‘On the ___ of Coromandel/Where the early pumpkins blow’ (Edward Lear ‘The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò’) (5)

6 Organ of the body to which the adjective

pneumonic refers (4)

7 16th president of the United States (1861-5), known by nicknames including ‘the RailSplitter’ (7,7)

8 Italian Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Canterbury (1093-1109) known as the father of Scholasticism (6)

11 Body of fresh water in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the longest and second-largest of its kind on earth (4,10)

14 In golf, a score of two strokes under par for

a hole (5)

16 Capital of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, founded as Port-de-France in 1854 (6)

17 & 19 Across Small southern constellation between Aquarius and Grus; ‘the Southern Fish’ (6,9)

18 Mirage of a sort commonly seen in the Strait of Messina, named after a character from Arthurian legend (4,7)

20 Eighth civil and second religious month of the Jewish year, usually falling within April and May (5)

24 & 21 Across Canadian singer-songwriter and musician whose albums include Elemental (1985) and Lost Souls (2018) (7,9)

25 European city that hosted the XX Summer

Olympic Games in 1972 (6)

26 Spike Milligan character on radio’s The Goon

Show, self-described as ‘The Famous’ (6)

30 Building material named from the Spanish for ‘mud brick’, used since ancient times in arid regions with little available wood (5)

31 One of the three chief deities of the Hindu Vedas along with Indra and Soma; Sanskrit, ‘fire’ (4)

32 Legal right to retain possession of another’s property pending their discharge of a debt (4)