Polymath 1,009 Set by Hamilton

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1 American diner slang for 2 Game also known as boules
tomato soup (6,2,3) (8)
7 See 24 3 Unbreakable, impenetrable
11 Italian name for the piccolo (10)
(8) 4 US slang word for the
12 An insect, or things buttocks (6)
generally, that are short- 5 Actress (1902-84) who twice
lived (8) played Queen Elizabeth I on
13 Sufficiently dirty or germ- film (5,6)
ridden so as to be a health 6 On ----- Street, 1991 Dire
hazard (10) Straits album (5)
14 Musical pieces that test 8 Selection of Chinese dishes
technical skill (6) whose name translates as
15 The capital of Ecuador (5) “snack” (3,3)
16 Sport where a person rolls 9, 26 One of over 100 small
downhill enclosed in a forts built in south-east
transparent plastic ball (7) England in the early 19th
18 Worldly-wise; knowing (3) century (8,5)
21 Astronomer born in Uppsala 10 The largest town on the Isle
in 1701 (6,7) of Sheppey (9)
24, 7 Actress who played Giselle 17 A party game often
in Disney’s Enchanted (3,5) associated with fundraising
25 British racing driver whose (6,5)
Formula 1 debut was in Brazil 19 Sir John Betjeman’s eulogy
(1984) (7) to the Metropolitan Line (9)
26 See 9 Down 20 An Italian motorway (10)
29 A variety of tourmaline, black 22 Embroidery technique used Solution Polymath 1,007
in colour (6) to gather material into pleats
30 An affected and elaborate (8)
style of gardening (10) 23 Decay found in trees, caused
31 The 10th state to be by various types of fungi (5-
admitted to the Union (8) 3)
32 Excessive adoration or 27 US technology company
devotion (8) founded in 1998 by Page and
33 The 39th vice president of Brin (6)
the US (5) 28 Shrub, Simmondsia The first correct entry drawn on
34 Genre of early 18th century chinensis, and the oil derived Wednesday February 27 wins
French painting associated from it (6) a copy of Brewer’s Dictionary
of Phrase and Fable. Entries
with Watteau (4,7) 30 TV executive, BBC chairman should be addressed to
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