Across
- 3. The meat of a deer that is used as food (7)
- 7. One of the longest rivers in Europe (5)
- 8. Antonym of urban (5)
- 10. An ancient Hindu festival that is celebrated in autumn each year; it is also known as the ‘Festival of Lights’ (6)
- 12. The shiny, brown seed of the horse chestnut tree (6)
- 14. A sour-tasting fruit that is used to make a popular kind of juice (9)
- 15. Carcharodon carcharias: also known as ‘The Great _____ Shark’ (5)
- 16. In North American usage, the autumn (4)
- 17. The art or technique of making maps (11)
- 19. The title of the 2013 computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale: The Snow Queen (6)
- 21. And, but, so, etc. (11)
- 22. “Open ______!”: the magic words that Aladdin used to get into the cave; a type of seed (6)
- 23. Birthplace of the Italian merchant and traveller Marco Polo (6)
- 25. An tall, needle-like ancient Egyptian monument (7)
- 26. A system of measurement in which units are related to one another by multiples of ten (7)
- 27. The developers of the X-Box video games console (9)
- 29. Ed ________: the leader of the Labour party in the UK in 2014 (8)
- 30. A region that is barren and desolate (9)
- 31. One of the two occasions during the year when the day and the night are the same length of time, caused by the sun crossing the equator (7)
- 33. A book listing words and their synonyms according to their different senses and uses (9)
- 36. A puzzle or cipher (6)
- 38. A bird of ill-omen (6)
Down
- 1. One of the most common formats for digital images (4)
- 2. The study of the lineage and history of families (9)
- 4. Having a strong, offensive or disgusting smell (4)
- 5. St ______: the patron saint of Scotland (6)
- 6. The capital of Norway (4)
- 9. Abraham _______: the 16th president of the United States of America (7)
- 11. The square of 5 (6-4)
- 13. A spear with a barb at the end, attached to a rope and used to catch whales (7)
- 17. An adjective used to describe the order in which things occur or happen (13)
- 18. A large group of musicians who play together as an ensemble (9)
- 20. The collective noun for cutlery (7)
- 24. Extremely or dreadfully ugly; horrifying (7)
- 28. A card game for one player (9)
- 29. An ancient building or structure that is preserved because of its historical value (8)
- 32. Confusion (5)
- 34. The highest political institution in Ancient Rome (6)
- 35. The site of several fierce battles between German and Allied forces in World War I (5)
- 37. The molten, or semi-molten, rock stored beneath the earth’s crust (5)