The Polymath Quiz

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Social outcast named after southern Indian drummers (6)
• Capital city whose namesake bean is often boiled (4)
• Musical titan with pipes or bodily cog with tissues (5)
• Impulsive brain cell transmitting dendritic chatter (6)
• A wristwatch on Caesar or an errant historical misplaced detail (11)
• Capital giving peace prizes despite frozen winters (4)
• Mythic star pattern guiding ancient mariners through dark seas (13)
• Mythical nymph who always gets the last word (4)
• Glass triangle that breaks sunlight into its constituent hues (5)
• Saturnian moon shrouded in orange smog or elder deity (5)
• High point where predators often sit (4)
• Rainbow goddess lending her name to ocular color (4)
• Boiling groundwater plume named after Iceland's Great spout (6)

Down

• Carnivore with a thumb that almost exclusively eats grass (5)
• Wartime cipher machine cracked by Bletchley brains (6)
• Emperor who turned fiddling into a symbol of neglect (4)
• Copernican cosmic model daring to unseat Earth from the center (12)
• Sacred carved pictograph deciphered through Rosetta's key (10)
• Beautiful penmanship elevated to sacred visual artistry (11)
• Cultural rebirth sparked by rediscovering classical antiquity (11)
• Riddling monument guarding Giza with feline repose (6)
• Nautical measure tied to ancient cord lines (4)

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