£1,000 Crossword
ACROSS
1 Railway coaches where light refreshments are served (6,4)
5 The traditional idealised rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry (7)
10 The innate capacity to respond to a given stimulus in a relatively fixed way (8)
11 Procedures to establish the acidity or alkalinity of mixtures (6,5)
12 Rational numbers that can be expressed as the sum or difference of a finite number of units; whole umbers (8)
13 A city in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands known for the production of a tin-glazed earthenware (5)
14 A financial aid supplied by a government to help an industry or business, or to pay for a public service (7) 17 Another name for a
slaughterhouse (8)
20 Menachem _, Prime
Minister of Israel 1977-83 (5) 21 Huckleberry _, fictional character created by Mark Twain (4)
22 A specific quantity of a
therapeutic drug or agent (4) 23 The edge of a roof that
projects beyond the wall (5) 26 A second self (5,3)
28 A close-textured woven cotton fabric, used especially for sheets (7)
30 A domesticated South American cud-chewing mammal, used as a beast of burden (5)
31 A flounce, ruffle or other
ornamental trim (8)
33 A rich sauce of egg yolks and butter, often served with fish (11)
34 The capital city of the
United Arab Emirates (3,5) 35 Short-sleeved lightweight tops with no collar or buttons (1-6)
36 Of or relating to the heat in
the interior of the Earth (10)
DOWN
1 A rounded or obtuse exterior angle, as the corner made by two walls (8)
2 People who operate or manage a tract of land which is cultivated or used to rear livestock (7)
3 The state of being held
by the police; arrest (7)
4 Bertrand _, British philosopher awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)
6 An exam taken again by a person who has not been successful in a previous attempt (5)
7 Politician who began his second term as President of Nicaragua in 2007 (6,6)
8 Creative workmanship,
ability or quality (8)
9 An appearance or arrival of
a supernatural being (10)
15 A significant development or discovery (12)
16 A port in East Scotland,
on the Firth of Tay (6)
18 A building which is joined to or is next to a larger main building (6)
19 To beat or strike with the
barrel of a handgun (6-4)
24 The lower than normal position to which a flag is lowered as a sign of mourning or distress (4-4) 25 Spencer _, the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated (8)
27 Christopher _, Elizabethan dramatist whose works included Tamburlaine The Great and The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (7)
28 A low wall or railing along the edge of something high such as a bridge or roof (7)
29 A heavy knife, especially
as used by butchers (7)
32 “Of all noises,
I think music is the _ disagreeable” (Samuel Johnson) (5)