Complete Clue List
Across
1. Biblical woman that became the archetype for the femme fatale stereotype
5. Automobile transmission
9. Speed or pace of musical composition
10. Large snake may be feathered or constricted
11. Israeli desert
12. Ms DiFranco, American folk singer, owner of "Righteous Babe" record label
14. Insect with a voracious appetite for wood, mistakenly called an ant
17. Wondrous but not joyous emotion
19. Unkindest, most spiteful, or most unfair
21. Weapon supplier
23. Elon's automobile of choice named after Serbian-US inventor
25. Suzi, US rockstar (would be almost four if she was Italian)
26. Not quite angry
27. Cardinal direction (usually depicted pointing upwards)
30. Supervise somebody else's children
33. County town of Berkshire, England (likes understanding books)
37. Rather large country known by its initials
38. American or Canadian porridge
39. Lyric poem (favoured by Keats)
40. Latinised "solid earth": Terra ____
41. Gibson is also a Blanc
42. One of the principal deities of Hinduism (almost found running up or down your spine)
43. Capital of 15D
44. Emptied of water/fluid OR emotionally exhausted
Down
1. Debris deliberately thrown overboard by a distressed ship's crew to lighten the ship's load
2. Southern Africa landlocked nation
3. Three Yorkshire sisters' name. Authors of great literary merit
4. National Motto of France: ____, égalité, fraternité
5. An extremely slow pace (it's cold as well)
6. Absolutely beautiful northeastern Northern Territory (Aus). Home of Kakadu NP: _____ Land
7. Poor person who lives by asking for food or money
8. Mr Rudd (no not that one), Aussie singer-songwriter or Mr Roberts US inventor Cabbage Patch Kids
13. Bright patches of clouds of gas and dust in outer space, visible at night (alt.)
15. Smallest most northern Baltic state (and arguably the most beautiful)
16. Windpipe
18. Rest days, traditionally
20. "Mr. Bojangles" written by US singer Jerry Jeff Walker, made famous by ____ Gritty Dirt Band
22. Stephen Bishop 1977 smash hit: "____ On" (2,3)
24. Chivalrous honorific
28. Empire that dissolved after WWI (either) into a country (or a footstool)
29. Increased threefold
30. Smorgasbord of food where diners serve themselves OR Warren, US entrepreneur
31. Cask used for wine or oil storage (but not both at the same time)
32. Mogadishu resident
34. Non-contiguous US state
35. Sub-branch of the Mediterranean between Italy and Greece
36. Mr Ford once a US President (and a King by birth)