Complete Clue List
Across
1. Kimono cousin
3. Spent sparingly (UK spelling)
10. Take a load off (3-4)
11. Percussion instruments
12. Adversary
13. Chinese toy dog, literally, "lion child dog" (4,3)
14. Arrangements, sometimes deceptive (6 or 3-3)
16. Follow, as advice (3,2)
18. Major SE Asian peninsula including Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (9 or 4-5)
21. Women's one-piece Chinese silk dress; literally "long clothes"
24. Scoundrel
26. In danger (2,4)
28. The original meaning of foreign loan words may be ____ through the passage of time (3-4)
30. Help
31. Time of wet weather in 18A, from the Cantonese "mun seoi": "full of water"
32. Service offered by some Chinese laundries; potential source of loan words
33. Get-togethers where loan words from other languages may spread
34. Colloquial English word for 'tea', derived from Cantonese
Down
1. Opposition to the use of words from other languages
2. In an intermediate, sometimes indecisive position (arch.)
4. Chinese philosopher; Latinised form of 'Master Kong'
5. Paper money
6. Unoriginal, copying from others
7. Wrinkly-faced Chinese dog whose name literally means "sand skin" (4,3)
8. Smidgen
9. Chinese dumpling, literally "cloud swallow" from its shape
15. Empty threat, phrase used by Mao Zedong against his opponents (5,5)
17. Palindromic exclamation of surprise
19. Calling for; requiring
20. Chinese dynasty that opened the Silk Road to Europe
22. Wiped out
23. Word that means "offensive," not "loud"
24. Bow and scrape; literally "knock head"
25. Get rid of
27. Japanese name for Chinese characters, from the Chinese "Hanzi"
29. Self-satisfied