£1,000 Crossword
Post your solution to Competition 16072 Sunday Express General Knowledge (£1,000) Crossword, PO Box 12577, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BS, to arrive by 23:59 on Friday. Spellings and definitions are taken from the Collins English Dictionary (13th edition out now, price £40), which is available to order from the Express Bookshop (see page 77). For full terms, go to www.express.co.uk/comprules.
ACROSS
1 An island at the north end of New York Bay; a borough of New York City (9)
5 Loose scales of dry dead skin
shed from the scalp (8)
9 Smooth, hard, yellow or whitish cheese which shares its name with a Somerset village (7)
10 Police officers of the
lowest rank (10)
11 The sounds made by horses’
feet on the ground (9)
12 Town in Cheshire; a major
railway junction (5)
13 The longest river in Africa (4) 15 Agile, arboreal Old World monkey with a slender body, long tail and hands, and long hair around the face (6)
17 _ Gale, protagonist of the Oz
novels by L Frank Baum (7)
19 A city on the northeast coast of Scotland; the administrative centre of the Highland council area (9)
21 White carnivorous mammal of coastal regions of the
North Pole (5,4)
22 and 1 Down. 1960 novel by Harper Lee featuring Atticus Finch and his children Jem and Scout (2,4,1,11)
23 The capital and chief port of the Bahamas, on New Providence Island (6)
25 Spanish sparkling wine produced by a method similar to that used for champagne (4)
26 Splinter of wood or strip of twisted paper with which pipes, fires, etc are lit (5)
27 A copious supply or great
amount of something (9)
31 Leader of a country’s Jewish community, a position held in the UK by Ephraim Mirvis since 2013 (5,5)
32 Arthur _, Conservative Prime
Minister 1902-05 (7)
33 A minster town in West Yorkshire on the River
Calder (8)
34 An aromatic deciduous tree of North America with dark blue fruits (9)
DOWN
1 See 22 Across
2 _ Coward, English dramatist, actor and composer whose works included Hay Fever (1925) and Blithe Spirit (1941) (4)
3 A long, loose decorative dress formerly worn when entertaining guests in the afternoon (3,4)
4 _ energy, another name for
atomic energy (7)
5 Robert _, Best Actor Oscar winner for the 1939 film Goodbye, Mr Chips (5)
6 A practice session in
cricket (4)
7 14th century King of
Scotland who led the Scots in the Wars of Scottish Independence (6,3,5)
8 In the US, a major road with
several lanes (7)
11 High spiral slides at
fairgrounds (6-8)
14 The standard monetary unit
of Sweden (5)
16 Legendary sainted British princess said to have been martyred with 11,000 virgins by the Huns at Cologne (6)
17 South _, state of the Midwestern US, the capital of which is Pierre (6)
18 Traditional forms of Oriental
self-defence or combat (7,4) 20 A person holding the title of duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron (5)
22 Item of footwear worn by dancers, equipped with metal pieces on the toe or heel that make a rhythmic sound (3,4) 23 People paid by parents to
look after their children (7)
24 Desserts consisting of ice cream topped with sweet sauces, nuts, whipped cream, etc (7)
28 _ pin, another name for
a hairgrip (5)
29 An official language of Pakistan, also spoken in India (4)
30 The fibre prepared from the husk of the coconut and used for mats, brushes, etc (4)