24a Gambling card game of Spanish origin played with three cards, similar to three-card trick (5) 37a Contraction of the heart, during which blood is pumped into the aorta and the arteries leading to...
11a Of diplomatic messages, etc., in ordinary language rather than a code or cipher; French, litterally meaning, 'in clear' (2,5) 31a In Common Law before 1875, an action to recover damages from...
27a In maths, teh concept of a value greater than any assignable quantity or countable number (8) 33a Plane figure consisting of the area between 2 concentric circles (7) 34a Cessation of the normal...
9a Scoring shot in which a player thrusts the ball down through the basket (4,4) 11a Short shaft or pin on which a mechanism turns or oscillates; a fulcrum (5) 12a Position of an oar turned parallel...
15a System of weights used for precious metals and gemstones, based on a pound of 12 ounces (4) 16a Twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; 'head' or 'beginning' (4) 17a Large sabre-toothed cat that...
1a Soft mellow Italian cheese usually moulded in the shape of a pear (9) 22a Formal leave of absence from a boarding school or similar institution, usualy lasting a day or a weekend. Latin, meaning...
12a Jargon or slang of a particular group, originally a secret language of thieves (5) 29a Small block of stone, tile, glass, etc. used in the construction of mosaic (7) 31a Unsaturated hydrocarbon...
10a Silvery-white metallic element of the lanthanide series used as the red phosphor in colour television screens (8) 11a Perpendicular line extending from the centre of a regular polygon to any of...
21a Regular series of engagements by a band or singer in one venue (9) R**I***C* 17d Loudspeaker used in high-fidelity sound reproduction for high-audio frequencies (7) T****E* 19d Woman's loose cloak...
13a wide brimmed felt hat, typically with a double crown, worn chiefly by travellers in subtropical regions (5) 15a network of evenly spaced horizontal and vertical lines on a map used to locate...
12a Fielding position in cricket at right angles to the batsman on the off side (5) 13a Eldest of the seven Pleiades in Greek mythology; mother, by Zeus, of Hermes (4) 17a Property of matter...
11a A rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs and seasoning (9) 12a A backless sofa or couch, designed to be set against a wall (5) 13a Widely cultivated...
10a Any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Delphinium, bearing spikes of blue flowers (8) 11a English silver coin worth four old pence (5) 14a Daughter of Tantalus turned into stone as she wept for her...
13a In Greek Mythology, the fluid that flowed like blood in the veins of the gods (5) 29a Trigonometric function that is equal to the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the hypotenuse in a...
1a Slender, tactile spine or bristle that hangs from the jaw of certain fish, such as 13 down (6) 18a A long piece of cotton cloth similar to a sarong (5) 19d A fine deposit of mud, clay, etc.,...
6a in yoga, one of the seven centres of spiritual power in the body, from sanskrit meaning circle or wheel (6) 12a & 2d group of chemically similar elements comprising the lanthanide series and...
10a genus of filamentous green algae of the order zygnemateles, named for their helical structure (9) 18a creator god of ancient egypt, husband of sekhmet and father of nefertum (4) 36a hindu system...
15a Cowardly boarhound belonging to Rubeus Hagrid in JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels (4) 20a European plant of the cabbage family cultivated for its large edible roots, Brassica Napus (5) 25a Dark...
5a of gas and vapour, to lose heat and enter a liquid or solid state (8) 17a any plant of the leguminous genus trifolium, having three lobed leaves and dense flower heads (6) 23a highly toxic protein...
