£1,000 Crossword

ACROSS

1 Caretakers of blocks of flats,

hotels, etc (10)

5 Any of a series of Soviet satellites, the first launched in 1957 (7)

10 A lake in north Kyrgyzstan; second-largest mountain lake in the world (5-3)

11 Rosaceous plant with dense heads of small, fragrant, cream-coloured flowers (11) 12 Calvin _, President of the USA

(1923-29) (8)

13 A large ray with wide winglike pectoral fins, feeding on plankton (5)

14 An open framework of strips

of wood, metal, etc (7)

17 In wrestling, an instance of an opponent being brought to the floor (8)

20 _ Day, American entertainer who starred in Calamity Jane (1953) (5)

21 Something vague, hazy

or indistinct (4)

22 Payments given for services in excess of the standard charge; gratuities (4)

23 The _, region of J R R Tolkien’s

fictional Middle-earth (5) 26 Period of the day when large numbers of people are travelling to or from work (4,4) 28 Large, swift, feline mammal of

Africa and Southwest Asia (7) 30 William _, co-founder and first

general of the Salvation Army (5) 31 Disease of the eye in which pressure within the eyeball damages the optic disc (8) 33 King of the Franks (768-814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800-814) (11) 34 Nickname for a member of the New Zealand national rugby union team (3,5)

35 Person or thing that is no longer

popular, successful, etc (3-4) 36 G K _, writer who created fictional priest-detective Father Brown (10)

DOWN

1 Richard _, second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (8)

2 The manner in which

a person behaves (7)

3 Arthur _, author of the Swallows

And Amazons series of books (7) 4 Saint- _, city in central France

in the Loire department (7) 6 Pasta sauce made from basil, pine nuts, garlic, oil and Parmesan (5)

7 Nearly hairless rodent of east African dry steppes and savannas, living entirely underground (5,4,3)

8 A county of the southeast

Republic of Ireland (8)

9 Early 18th-century Whig organisation whose members included Robert Walpole and John Vanbrugh (3-3,4) 15 16th-century English composer and organist noted for his music for the Anglican liturgy (6,6) 16 Raúl _, President of Cuba

(2008-18) (6)

18 Brandy distilled from cherries associated with the Black Forest region of Germany (6)

19 Books with covers made

of flexible card (10)

24 A combination of three letters used to represent a single speech sound (8)

25 Formerly an older or married woman who accompanied a young unmarried woman on social occasions (8)

27 William _, 18th-century painter and satirist, noted for works such as A Rake’s Progress (7) 28 Wooden houses of Swiss

origin (7)

29 _ of Aquitaine, medieval queen consort of France and England; mother of King Richard I and King John (7)

32 A member of a Native American people formerly living in an area between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers (5)