£1,000 Crossword

ACROSS

1 Goods prohibited by law from being exported or imported (10)

5 French jewellery and watch company founded in Paris in 1847 (7)

10 Harsh, strict or severe (8) 11 _ Institution, group of American museums and research centres (11)

12 The state capital of

Connecticut, US (8)

13 Any of various instruments

for measuring a quantity (5) 14 English oratorio composed by Handel in 1741, featuring the Hallelujah chorus (7) 17 Ferdinand _, Portuguese navigator who led part of the first expedition around the world (8)

20 The capital and most

populous city of Ecuador (5) 21 A large farm outbuilding, used for storage or for housing livestock (4)

22 A vital or decisive stage,

point, etc (4)

23 and 33 Across Alfred Hitchcock film (1959) starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason (5,2,9) 26 Doomed or unlucky (3-5) 28 Device for applying a design, characters, etc, to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of plastic, metal, cardboard, etc (7) 30 A bird of prey’s sharply

hooked claw (5) 31 Carbonated soft drink invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton (4-4)

33 See 23 Across

34 Showing skilful planning (8) 35 To exert a stimulating or beneficial effect upon someone (7)

36 A person who speaks English, especially a native speaker (10)

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1 A clear soup made from meat

or chicken stock (8) 2 Three-wheeled taxis in

Thailand (3-4)

3 _ Market in Southwark is one of the largest and oldest food markets in London (7) 4 Poisonous or harmful (7)

6 A hand tool with a bit shaped like a corkscrew, for boring holes in wood (5)

7 Attacking established or traditional concepts, principles, laws, etc (12)

8 A person who lives in

a place (8)

9 A historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia (6,4)

15 Light cones consisting of a cork stub with feathered flights, used to play badminton (12) 16 A long-legged wading bird with a usually black and white plumage and a long, slender, upward-curving bill (6)

18 A heavily built marine bird with a long, stout bill and a typically white plumage with dark markings (6)

19 The _ _, legendary gathering place of King Arthur’s knights (5,5)

24 Italian oblong-shaped hard, dry cookies containing almonds or hazelnuts (8) 25 The vertical height of an object above some chosen level, especially above sea level; elevation (8)

27 Hillary _, United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013 (7) 28 Device allowing a swimmer to breathe while face down on the surface of the water (7) 29 City in East Anglia on the

River Wensum (7)

32 _ II, King of Sweden (18721907) and King of Norway (1872-1905) (5)