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7-across – 1986 movie starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater : THENAME

9-across – See 7 : OFTHE

10-across – Building made of mudbrick – or a software company : ADOBE

11-across – Tapered monument often to the war dead : OBELISK

12-across – Language spoken widely in east and central Africa : SWAHILI

14-across – See 18 : DEGLI

16-across – French cigarette paper brand : RIZLA

17-across – The Roman goddess of wisdom and justice : MINERVA

18-across – The national anthem of Italy whose title means The Song of the Italians : ILCANTO

20-across – Bacterium commonly found in faecal discharge : ECOLI

22-across – The former wife of Donald Trump : IVANA

23-across – Thomas __,sailor hanged for his part in the mutiny on the Bounty : ELLISON

1-down – Major __,Nazi antagonist in the film Casablanca : STRASSER

2-down – Anna __,novel by Tolstoy : KARENINA

3-down – Giorgia __,prime minister of Italy : MELONI

4-down – See 7 Across : ROSE

5-down – A freelance journalist – or supporting section of a staircase? : STRINGER

6-down – US musician whose albums include Colors and Hyperspace : BECK

8-down – Umberto __,author of 7/9/4 : ECO

13-down – 25 April – in memory of Tonga,Australia and New Zealand soldiers : ANZACDAY

14-down – Declan __,one half of Ant & Dec : DONNELLY

15-down – See 18 Across : ITALIANI

17-down – Beth __ Australian cricketer : MOONEY

18-down – Wading bird – or a budget hotel chain : IBIS

19-down – Trevor __,South African comedian who was “born a crime” : NOAH

21-down – The precursor to the CIA : OSS

8-across – Count __,Bram Stoker’s creation : DRACULA

9-across – __ Hoover,also known as Little Miss Sunshine : OLIVE

10-across – What,according to Dean Martin,it is when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie? : AMORE

11-across – __ Hill,road leading up to St Paul’s in London : LUDGATE

12-across – Singer whose hits include Be the One and Levitating : DUA

13-across – Headland near Cádiz after which a London square is named : TRAFALGAR

15-across – Singer whose hits include Speed Drive and Guess : CHARLIXCX

16-across – __ Sciver-Brunt,England women’s cricket captain : NAT

18-across – Home furnishing chain founded by Terence Conran : HABITAT

20-across – Kendrick __,rapper whose hits include Not Like Us : LAMAR

21-across – Rene __,star of Get Shorty and Velvet Buzzsaw : RUSSO

22-across – German city extensively destroyed by Allied bombing in February 1945 : DRESDEN

1-down – A potato when a king,but an island when a prince? : EDWARD

2-down – BBC television’s flagship current affairs programme : PANORAMA

3-down – Fibre used in making burlap sacks : JUTE

4-down – The former name of what is now Chemnitz in Germany : KARLMARXSTADT

5-down – A city in western France – or a crater on Mars : BORDEAUX

6-down – See 12 Across : LIPA

7-down – Another term for a shooting star : METEOR

13-down – Portmanteau term for a television fundraising event : TELETHON

14-down – Jupiter’s largest moon – named for a Trojan prince : GANYMEDE

15-down – A unit of the ancient Roman army – or a taxonomic rank : COHORT

17-down – The Albanian capital : TIRANA

19-down – __ House,former home of the BBC World Service : BUSH

20-down – Sex,__,and Videotape,1989 film starring James Spader and Andi MacDowell : LIES

6-across – Official transcript of parliamentary proceedings : HANSARD

9-across – Iraqi city on the Shatt al-Arab : BASRA

10-across – River flowing through St Petersburg : NEVA

11-across – Dick __,star of Mary Poppins : VANDYKE

13-across – A kind of bridge or a kind of sale? : AUCTION

15-across – The Purple Rose of __,Woody Allen movie from 1985 : CAIRO

16-across – Crimean resort where Churchill,Roosevelt and Stalin met in 1945 : YALTA

17-across – A Majestic __,cricket writings of CLR James : INNINGS

18-across – The first section of Dante’s Divine Comedy : INFERNO

20-across – Jonah __,player remembered for his performance against England in the 1995 Rugby World Cup : LOMU

23-across – River __,Midlands waterway : TRENT

24-across – Country bordered by Peru and Colombia : ECUADOR

1-down – Dan Brown novel,sequel to Angels & Demons : THE

2-down – Taking the __,form of protest pioneered by Colin Kaepernick : KNEE

3-down – Scottish town on the Firth of Lorn : OBAN

4-down – The __ – who,according to Byron,“came down like the wolf on the fold”? : ASSYRIAN

5-down – Author of the bestselling novel 12 : KATEMOSSE

7-down – One of the two most common forms of coffee plant : ARABICA

8-down – See 1 : DAVINCICODE

12-down – Type of elaborate pen built,according to legend,by Daedalus to hold the minotaur : LABYRINTH

14-down – Long-running ITV drama series starring James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale : COLDFEET

15-down – 17th century French waterway connecting Béziers and Toulouse : CANALDU

19-down – Luxury hotel on London’s Piccadilly or the Place Vendôme,Paris : RITZ

21-down – See 15 : MIDI

22-down – Shorthand for an internet address : URL

7-across – Martin __,historian known for his books on Africa : MEREDITH

8-across – Nina __,German actor who has appeared in Homeland,Jack Ryan and A Most Wanted Man : HOSS

9-across – Doddie __,Scottish rugby layer and campaigner around motor neuron disease : WEIR

10-across – Cockney rhyming slang for pinch : HALFINCH

11-across – __ effect,a change in the frequency of waves as the source and observer move relative to each other : DOPPLER

13-across – There Will be __,2007 movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis : BLOOD

15-across – See 16 Down : STEPS

17-across – The __,water separating Brooklyn and Staten Island : NARROWS

20-across – Otto von __,first chancellor of Germany : BISMARCK

21-across – See 16 Down : NINE

22-across – __ Place,played by Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid : ETTA

23-across – Dame Emma __,star of Dead of Winter : THOMPSON

1-down – Italian region,capital Venice : VENETO

2-down – 1954 Hitchcock 5 starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly : REAR

3-down – The lead singer on 5 : MICHAEL

4-down – Lee __,author of the Reacher 5s : CHILD

5-down – Bestselling album of all time,released on 30 November 1982 : THRILLER

6-down – 1960 Hitchcock 5 starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh : PSYCHO

12-down – Common name for cervical cancer screening : PAPSMEAR

14-down – See 3 : JACKSON

16-down – The __,5 by John Buchan : THIRTY

18-down – See 2 : WINDOW

19-down – The first casualty of war,so they say? : TRUTH

21-down – Union which merged with Nalgo to form Unison : NUPE

7-across – An apple – or Peregrin Took in The Lord of the Rings : PIPPIN

8-across – See 22 : AUTHOR

9-across – To where Russell Crowe and Christian Bale took the 3:10? : YUMA

10-across – Windsor residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales : ADELAIDE

11-across – Timothy __,Sean Murray’s character in NCIS : MCGEE

13-across – See 10 : COTTAGE

15-across – What the Romans harvested in the Wash through evaporation of brine : SEASALT

16-across – Dornford __,the pseudonym of Cecil William Mercer : YATES

17-across – __ system,teaching method used at Oxford and Cambridge : TUTORIAL

19-across – __ Brockman,Springfield News anchor in The Simpsons : KENT

21-across – California city named for its ash trees : FRESNO

22-across – A novel by Lodge,a story by Asimov and a memoir by Wodehouse? : AUTHOR

1-down – Ethnic group living mainly in northern Japan and southern Sakhalin : AINU

2-down – Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s official residence : SPEAKERSHOUSE

3-down – Pre-Columbian empire in South America : INCA

4-down – King Arthur’s castle and court : CAMELOT

5-down – Restraining garments often used in escapology acts : STRAITJACKETS

6-down – French department whose prefecture is Périgueux : DORDOGNE

12-down – The prime minister’s official country residence : CHEQUERS

14-down – Larry __,co-founder of Oracle : ELLISON

18-down – Billy __,1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse : LIAR

20-down – Inert gas,atomic number 10 : NEON