The Generalist by Didymus

A An Indian hermitage for a holy man (6)

A City and port in southern Russia at the head

of the Volga River delta (9)

B Starbucks employee (7)

B Path for horse riders (9)

C North American bird with a black head and neck and a large white throat patch, introduced in Britain to St James's Park over 300 years ago (6,5) C Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (8,4) D Member of a gang of Indian or Burmese

robbers (6)

D An untwilled light dress material, originally

made of wool (7)

E Hearing distance (7)

E In Arthurian romance, the “Grail Maiden,”

daughter of the Fisher King, Pelles of Corbenic (6) F A paintbrush of polecat hair (5)

F Popular name of Beethoven’s Bagatelle number 25

in A minor (3,5)

G Branch of mathematics based on classical

Euclidean assumptions (8)

G A community-owned estate in the northwest of

the Duirinish peninsula on Skye (8)

H Hampshire village famed as the home of English cricket and of the vineyard which marked the revival of English winemaking in 1952 (9) H Neighbours character played by

Jemma Donovan (6)

I Actress who starred in the TV series Anna Lee (6,6) I River rising in the Rhaetian Alps, flowing through the Austrian Tyrol until it joins the Danube at Passau (3)

J In a song by David Bowie, he “snuck off to the city”

and “loves chimney stacks” (4,5)

J Surname of the 17th and 36th US presidents (7) K Polish city, the industrial centre of the Upper

Silesian coal-mining region (8)

K Tibetan wild ass (5)

L Weapon about which actor Robert Hardy wrote A

Social and Military History (7)

L Scottish TV presenter of Good Morning Britain, GMTV and, since 2010, her eponymous breakfasttime programme (8,5)

M Nielsen’s 1906 three-act opera with libretto by

Vilhelm Andersen (9)

M Main divisions of symphonies (9)

N US actor, star of Moonstruck, Wild at Heart and

Leaving Las Vegas (7,4)

N A male Roman’s middle name (5)

O The study of wines (8)

O Boor or lout (3)

P Oxford-based publishing house, founded in 1948, which produced scientific and medical books and journals and was taken over by Elsevir in 1991 (8) P US car firm, part of General Motors, which produced the Bonneville, Firebird and Firefly models (7)

Q Holiday resort near Bugibba on Malta (5)

Q The wool of the undercoat of the Arctic

musk ox (6)

R Monkey also known as the bandar macaque (6) R Protective vehicle attachment for travel in the

outback (3,3)

S A jointed steel shoe worn as part of a suit of

armour (8)

S Olivier Assayas’s 2008 film starring Juliette Binoche, about the death of a family matriarch and her wishes in contrast to the siblings’ intentions (6,5)

T Netflix drama series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, starring Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies (3,5) T Mar-a-Lago was called the “Southern White

House” of this US president (5)

U Industrial city in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region

of Italy (5)

U Kent and England left-arm slow bowler nicknamed “Deadly” (9)

V Isle of Wight resort, a fashionable Victorian

health spa, where the poet Swinburne is buried (7) V Obsolete term for disguise (6)

W British holiday coaching company named after its founders Messrs Cunningham and Crowe which merged with Shearings in 2005 (7,6) W Feminist group which emerged

in the late 1960s (6,3)

X Small three-masted boat, favoured

by Algerian pirates (5)

X Ancient Rome’s nineteen (3)

Y Turn off course, as aircraft may do (3) Y Partners—joined by the neck! (4-7)

Z Small rooms, such as sextons’ room over porches

in churches (5)

Z Anne ____, the light operatic soprano who, with her husband the tenor Webster Booth, were known as the “Sweethearts in Song” (7)

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