BIG X-WORD
ACROSS 1
Elongated ridge of tissue underneath the brain’s cerebral cortex shaped like a seahorse (11)
6 Crushed apples for cider-making, before or after the juice is pressed out (6)
9 Amelia ___, aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the
Atlantic (1932) (7)
10 Tragedy written by Athenian playwright Sophocles (7,3)
11 Island in the Indian Ocean that united with
Tanganyika in 1964 to form
Tanzania (8)
12 Capital and largest city of Belarus, on the Svislach River (5)
13 1983 hit by English band Spandau Ballet, from the album True (4)
16 Large fish-eating bird of prey with brown-and-white plumage and long narrow wings; Pandion haliaetus (6)
19 Genus of daisy-like plants of the sunflower family (Asteraceae) usually with blue or lilac flowers (7)
21 Venetian senator and father of Desdemona in Shakespeare’s Othello (9)
22 & 24 Former president of Chile reelected in March 2018 (9,6)
23 Greek architect of the 5th century BC who designed the Parthenon with
Callicrates (7)
24 See 22 Across
25 Mother, by Zeus, of
Artemis and Apollo (4)
26 Fictional forest moon in the Star Wars universe inhabited by the Ewoks (5)
27 Mild white Cypriot cheese made from goat or ewe milk, often eaten fried or grilled (8)
32 2018 action-adventure film starring Alicia Vikander and Daniel Wu (4,6)
33 First-person narrator of the Herman Melville novel Moby-dick (7)
34 Resort town near Bruges in NW Belgium, a port on the North Sea (6)
35 English novelist and poet (1840-1928) who fictionalised the SW counties of England as Wessex (6,5)
DOWN 1
Red oxygen-carrying protein in blood (11)
2 Monetary unit of Serbia worth one hundredth of a dinar (4)
3 Administrative body at the Vatican by which the pope governs the Roman Catholic Church (5)
4 Moral integrity and uprightness; from Latin, ‘good’ (7)
5 Red planetoid orbiting the
sun beyond Pluto,
discovered in 2003 (5)
6 Insect at the immobile non-feeding stage between larva and imago in metamorphosis (4)
7 Mountainous plateau of S central France occupying about one sixth of the country (6,7)
8 District and former borough of SW London amalgamated with Kensington in 1965 (7)
14 1967 musical film starring Elvis Presley and Annette Day (6,7)
15 Long-term weather conditions prevailing in an area, determined by latitude, terrain etc. (7)
17 Matthew ___, English rower who won four consecutive Olympic gold medals between 1992 and 2004 (7)
18 Coastal region of NW Greece south of Albania; capital, Ioánnina (6)
19 Henry ___, Swiss-born British artist whose works include
The Nightmare (6)
20 Sharpshooter associated with Buffalo Bill’s Wild
West Show from 1885 to 1902 (5,6)
23 Of rock, formed by the cooling and solidification of lava or magma (7)
24 Capital of the Italian island of Sicily, founded by the Phoenicians in the 8th century BC (7)
28 Official examination and verification of financial accounts, typically by an independent body (5)
29 Character played by
Christian Bale in the 2014
Ridley Scott film Exodus: Gods And Kings (5)
30 Imperial unit of length standardised as exactly 0.9144 metres (4) 31 Young salmon between the stages of fry and smolt, distinguished by dark patches along its sides (4)