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2 Daily Express Monday, April 6, 2020

Puzzles

ACROSS

1 In computing, a set of instructions in a

programming language to be compiled or

assembled into an executable form (6,4)

5 Across, 4 Down, 36 Across Character played

by Russell Crowe in the 2000 film Gladiator (7,7,8)

10 Russian-born US singer and actor who starred

in the first full-length talking film (The Jazz

Singer, 1927) (2,6)

11 Marine or freshwater European food fish also

known as the sparling, family Osmeridae (5)

12 Uppermost and widest of the three sections of

the hipbone, fused with the ischium and pubis (5)

13 Second-smallest of the constellations, whose

name means ‘little horse’ in Latin (8)

14 Joe ___, US boxer who was heavyweight

champion of the world from 1937 to 1949 (5)

15 Order of chiefly aquatic crustaceans that

includes the gribble and the woodlouse (7)

18 Cleric or lay member of a religious group

attached to a private chapel or ministering to

an institution, ship, regiment etc. (8)

20 Monetary unit of Zambia worth one hundredth

of a kwacha (5)

22 ‘So ___ and fair a day I have not seen’

(Shakespeare Macbeth (1606)) (4)

23 Prophetic book of the Old Testament attributed

to ‘a shepherd from the town of Tekoa’ (4)

24 Most prominent projection of the occipital

bone at the base of the skull, used as a point

of measurement in craniometry (5)

27 Fourth compartment of a ruminant mammal’s

stomach, in which rennet is produced (8)

29 Coarse fabric made of silk mixed with wool or

mohair, often stiffened with gum (7)

31 Angel in Jewish apocryphal writings described in

Milton’s Paradise Lost as ‘Regent of the Sun’ (5)

32 Hormone produced in the duodenum that

stimulates the production of digestive enzymes

in the pancreas and bile in the liver (8)

34 Android science officer in the US sci-fi series

The Orville, played by Mark Jackson (5)

35 Low-resistance conductor in an electric circuit

that forms an alternative path for a portion of

its current (5)

36 See 5

37 Any jumping insect of the family Gryllidae,

related to the grasshoppers (7)

38 Valentina ___, Russian cosmonaut who

became the first woman in space (1963) (10)

DOWN

1 Ancient language of India chiefly written in the

Devanagari script (8)

2 Fillet of raw herring wrapped around an onion

slice or pickle and marinated in spiced

vinegar; from Germany (7)

3 Diacritical mark written under the letter c in

French and Portuguese to indicate an s rather

than k pronunciation (7)

4 See 5 Across

6 Region and former province in the Loire valley

of western France (5)

7 2020 comedy drama film starring Keira

Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (12)

8 Maximum-security prison in the village of

Ossining, New York, formerly infamous for its

harsh conditions (4,4)

9 British navigator and explorer who explored

the eastern coast of Australia in 1770 (5,4)

16 Structure in the cochlea of the inner ear

whose hair cells transform sound energy into

nerve impulses (5,2,5)

17 Chart-topping 1977 hit by Fleetwood Mac

covered by The Corrs in 1998 (6)

19 North-flowing river of central France that joins

the Loire west of the city of Nevers (6)

21 Theory or system of social organisation that

replaces private property with collective

ownership (9)

25 Dark sweet Italian vinegar made from the juice

of grapes aged in wooden barrels over a

number of years (8)

26 Moon of Jupiter, discovered by US astronomer

Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892 (8)

28 Large African mammal known in medieval

times as the camelopard (7)

29 White crystalline monosaccharide sugar

whose most common form is dextrose (7)

30 Large short-winged bird of prey of Europe,

Asia, and North America classified as Accipiter

gentilis (7)

33 Taxonomic group ranking above a genus and

below a family or subfamily (5)

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