Polymath 794 Set by Sleuth
ACROSS
1Viking king of Denmark and
Norway who became a devout
Christian (6,9)
11The art of effective speaking (9)
12An informal gathering in Scotland
and Ireland with traditional music
and dancing (7)
13To find fault with petty details
(3-4)
14Like a cartilage (9)
15US conservationist noted for the
environmentalist book, Silent
Spring (6,6)
17French writer who wrote a
fictionalised account of Cézanne
in his novel, L’Oeuvre (4)
19A Cuban dance in 2-4 time (8)
21Ruler in sacred things (8)
23A cake of unleavened bread in
Indian cooking (4)
24The highest mountain of
Antarctica (6,6)
27To chew or eat (9)
28The windpipe (7)
29A stick of liquorice (4-3)
30A discharge from the ear (9)
31Leader of resistance to the
Norman conquest of England
who was active in the Fens
(8,3,4)
DOWN
2Like an emotion with no
understanding of it (7)
3Type of vegetable grown in China
and Japan (5,5)
4“Come gentlemen I hope we
shall ----- down all unkindness”,
said by Page in Shakespeare’s
The Merry Wives of Windsor (5)
5Term for the honeysuckle (8)
6A formulary of prayers (11)
7Capital of the principality of
Asturias in Spain (6)
8Ireland and Italy are among
countries that have a flag of this
type (9)
9US film composer noted for his
collaboration with Alfred
Hitchcock on films such as
Psycho and Vertigo (7,8)
10A painting of 1793 by the French
painter, Jacques-Louis David
(3,5,2,5)
16First century queen of the
Brigantes who signed a treaty
with the Romans (11)
18A mark used on government
property (5,5)
20A bugbear (4,5)
22A rocky object like Ceres in orbit
between Mars and Jupiter (8)
25Shoddy or inferior material (7)
26Tony, attacking midfielder who
played for Sheffield United,
Leeds, QPR and England (6)
28Egyptian god of knowledge and
hieroglyphs depicted with the
head of an ibis or baboon (5)
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