Daily Express - 02.09.2019

32 Daily Express Monday, September 2, 2019

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1 One of the 11 official languages of South

Africa, formerly known as Cape Dutch (9)

6 and 18 down 1986 comedy western film

starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and

Martin Short (5,6)

10 Silvery-white metallic element of the

lanthanide series usually occurring with

yttrium; atomic no. 71 (8)

11 In heraldry, the point halfway between the

centre (fess) and base of a shield; French,

‘navel’ (7)

12 Group of seven bright stars in the constellation

Ursa Major also known as Charles’s Wain (3,6)

13 ‘For secrets are edged ___’ (John Dryden Sir

Martin Mar-All (1667) act 2, sc. 2) (5)

15 Third-largest city of Egypt, noted for its Great

Pyramid and the Great Sphinx (4)

16 and 17 2019 action thriller film starring Gerard

Butler and Morgan Freeman (5,3,6)

20 Mineral spring, or a health resort where such

a spring is located (3)

22 Goddess of the night in Greek mythology,

counterpart of the Roman Nox (3)

25 ‘There, at the ___ grange, resides this

dejected Mariana’ (Shakespeare Measure for

Measure (1604) (6)

26 William ___, English dramatist; Love for Love

(1695), The Way of the World (1700) etc. (8)

29 Line behind which a darts player stands when

making a throw, typically 7ft 9 1/4 in (2.37 m)

from the board (4)

30 Japanese dish whose familiar modern form

(nigiri) is said to have been perfected by chef

Hanaya Yohei (1799–1858) (5)

31 Metric unit of mass equivalent to 0.154323584

of 15 Down (9)

34 Island country in the South Pacific formerly

(until 1980) called the New Hebrides (7)

35 Soft light form of muslin traditionally used for

babywear and lingerie; from Hindi, ‘eye delight’ (8)

36 Twelfth emperor of Rome (96-98 AD),

succeeded by his adopted son Trajan (5)

37 Word spelt the same as another but with a

different pronunciation and meaning (9)

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2 Mirage of a kind seen in the Strait of Messina,

attributed to a sorceress of Arthurian legend (4,7)

3 Any small shrimplike marine crustacean of the

order Euphausiacea, eaten by whales etc. (5)

4 Velar nasal consonant, such as that found in

thing and ink (4)

5 Thracian slave and gladiator who led an

unsuccessful revolt against Rome in 73 AD (9)

6 Hybrid of a mandarin orange or tangerine with

a grapefruit or pomelo (7)

7 French term meaning all together or as a

whole (2,4)

8 Rocky island in San Francisco Bay, California; site

of a top-security prison from 1934 to 1963 (8)

9 Tenor brass wind instrument of the saxhorn

family typically pitched in E flat (7)

14 Character played by Kate Beckinsale in the

Underworld film franchise (2003-16) (6)

15 Smallest unit of weight in the avoirdupois and

apothecaries’ systems, equal to 1/7000 of a

pound and 1/5760 of a pound respectively (5)

18 See 6 Across

19 Second-largest state of Germany, known

locally as Niedersachsen (5,6)

21 Positively charged electrode, as of an

electrolytic cell, storage battery etc. (5)

23 Popular name for the titular antagonist of the

Alien film series, first used in 1986’s Aliens (9)

24 Japanese dish of meat or seafood marinated

in soy sauce, mirin and sugar and grilled or

broiled (8)

25 Russian principality of the 13th-16th centuries

of which Moscow was the capital (7)

27 Genus of tropical Asian plants of the family

Zingiberaceae that includes turmeric and

zedoary (7)

28 Otto ___, Russian-born US astronomer who

discovered the existence of ionised interstellar

hydrogen in 1937 (6)

32 Male member of a Roman Catholic religious

order, especially one of the four mendicant

ones (Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans

and Franciscans) (5)

33 Any of various small flies of the dipterid

suborder Nematocera (4)

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