Across
- 2. A woman whose husband is dead (6)
- 3. Elderly mariner (3,4)
- 6. Posies, nosegays (8)
- 10. Intensely blue flowers (8)
- 13. Fine state of fitness and good health (6)
- 15. Jawless eel-like fish (8)
- 17. Herbaceous plant that turns out to be A-list (7)
- 18. Old measure of area, bird’s resting place and fish (5)
- 20. It’s also known as night0blooming or moonlight cactus (6)
- 22. In the former Soviet Union, the secret distribution of banned writings (8)
- 24. Small lobe at the back of the soft palate (5)
- 26. Christian church of Egypt (6)
- 28. Corrupt commercial bribe (8)
- 30. Biblical man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage (4)
- 32. Having few if any teeth (8)
- 34. Disciplinarians (9)
- 35. Person who rules while the monarch is a minor (6)
Down
- 1. Cry of sorrow and grief (6)
- 4. Male ducks (6)
- 5. Chronic drinker (3)
- 7. Inform (7)
- 8. Tom Paine, oddly, got old-fashioned food poisoning (8)
- 9. One’s strong suit or forte (6)
- 11. Typographic units measuring type size and space (3)
- 12. Sir in Turkey (7)
- 14. Celestial reference point for navigation (8)
- 16. One believes in and helps spread the doctrine of another (8)
- 19. Old Roman nosey parker and penname of a previous Diarist of this parish (8)
- 21. Briefcase and diplomat (7)
- 23. The truth of these sayings is self-evident (6)
- 25. A job that pays well for little work (8)
- 27. Having two points, like a pre-molar tooth (8)
- 29. Raises trivial objections (6)
- 31. Handheld mechanical calculator (5,4)
- 33. Priest’s assistant (7)
