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ACROSS
1 Tiny freshwater crustacean that swims by means of hairy branched antennae (5,4)
5 Classic UK sitcom set during
the Second World War (4,4)
9 Alexander _, Scottish sailor marooned on a South Pacific island and the inspiration behind Robinson Crusoe (7) 10 Actress known for her stage partnership with Henry Irving in the late 19th century (5,5) 11 A person who argues in
favour of something (9)
12 A large tropical American parrot with a long tail and brilliant plumage (5)
13 _ Sikorsky, Russian-born US engineer who designed the first successful helicopter (4) 15 Friedrich _, German social scientist and philosopher; coauthor with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto (6) 17 A flat, heated surface, especially on the top of a stove, for cooking food (7) 19 An optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and brighter (9) 21 American 20th-century actor who starred in 1955’s Rebel Without A Cause (5,4) 22 Bedrich _, Czech composer best known for his comic opera The Bartered Bride (7) 23 Northern Ireland county famed for the geological feature, Giant’s Causeway (6) 25 A distinctive air or quality considered characteristic of a person or thing (4)
26 A plan, sketch or drawing
of something (5)
27 Small African parrots that
are often kept in aviaries (9) 31 The capital of Ethiopia (5,5) 32 Surname of 20th-century naturalist Gerald and his novelist brother, Lawrence (7) 33 Plants of the iris family, with sword-shaped leaves and spikes of funnel-shaped, brightly coloured flowers (8) 34 Officials engaged in the conduct of the relations of one state with another (9)
DOWN
1 The borough of Greater London that contains the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace (11)
2 A jousting contest in
medieval Europe (4)
3 A unit of length equal
to 220 yards (7)
4 Roman name for a crater near Naples in Italy; once believed to be the entrance to the underworld (7)
5 Bob _, acclaimed American singer-songwriter who was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 2016 (5) 6 Mound or ridge of drifted sand
on the coast or in deserts (4) 7 French novelist and dramatist whose works include 1844’s The Count Of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers (9,5)
8 Town and resort on the Isle
of Thanet in Kent (7)
11 The ability to remain calm and act constructively in times of crisis (8,2,4)
14 A chant of lamentation
for the dead (5)
16 The flying island in Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) (6)
17 King Arthur’s nephew and a
Knight of the Round Table (6) 18 The largest city in the US
state of Minnesota (11)
20 a cylindrical roll of tobacco
leaves; for smoking (5)
22 A thin sheet of filled dough,
rolled up and baked (7)
23 Peter _, medieval French scholastic philosopher and theologian (7)
24 One of a family of baleen whales with a dorsal fin and grooves along the throat and chest (7)
28 A ruminant mammal of central African forests, with horizontal white stripes on the legs (5)
29 A starchy cereal obtained from the powdered pith of a palm, used for puddings and as a thickening agent (4) 30 The sixth letter of the
Greek alphabet (4)