I guess nobody [could be bothered to] finished the Christmas 2015 Crossword that I put up a couple of weeks ago to keep my hand in. But I'm certain sure that you're all panting for the answers. I'll add some annotation so you have a clue about what was going on in my head.
Clues Across
01ac. ---, Gropius, Werfel Mahler: Alma Maria Schindler married successively the composer, the architect. and the novelist.; 04ac. aka Chaldean Aramean Assyrian synonyms; 09ac. Glutton; Morus spp. Gannet; 10ac. 10o28N 61o15W isle Trinidad; 12ac. Nb named for dau of Ta Niobe Niobium is directly above Tantalum in the periodic table ; 13ac. Арха́нгельск in English Archangel port on Arctic Sea; 15ac. Devonian outcrop Tor geographical feature in Devon and Cornwall; 16ac. Boudicca's people Iceni; 17ac. Wm 021013 Ml 160313 Ramsey the dates refer to Blob Posts; 22ac. Drugged geologist?; Stoner - joke! 24ac. 86Rn Radon; 27ac. One of the Padidae Tit a class of small bird; 28ac. Snowbird RV Winnebago trade mark of a type of mobile home in whc a snowbird might live; 31ac. Tribromofluoromethane Halon flame retardant and ozone destroyer; 32ac. Flight from LHR to SIN Longhaul; 33ac. The original Hun Attila; 34ac. Benzene girl's name Kathleen "ni Houlihan" Lonsdale; 35ac. Черное море полуостров Crimea - a Black Sea Peninsula;
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01dn. 150t Holocaust 060714 [Lac-]Mégantic; 02dn. Birthplace 1714 UK king Hannover - George I was Elector of H.; 03dn. [Bible] interpreter Exegisist; 05dn. A huge block of ice Serac often formed by intersecting crevasses in a glacier; 06dn. A yiddischer gossip Yenta; 07dn. λ 430nm Indigo wavelength of light; 08dn. Uncancerous lump; 11dn. C.cainii or Fr C.sativa Marron which is both a type of crayfish and the French for chestnut.; 14dn. Cardiac nerve bundle His which runs from the AV-node to the Purkinje Fibres; 18dn. Shandean postscripter 200114 [Robert] Merton; 19dn. Geastraceae fungi Earthstar; 20dn. Commiphora africana resin Bdellium; 21dn. 1/5 of the Iroquois nations Onondaga; 23dn. Globus [cruciger] Orb part of the crown jewels; 25dn. Inventor of Kevlar 020714 [Stephanie] Kwolek; 26dn. What Alexander did in Gordium Unknot - maybe with his sword maybe with more subtlety; 29dn. C2H5- Ethyl; 30dn. Heraldic tincture Azure;
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