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1 The play that Abraham Lincoln was
watching when he was assassinated (3,8,6)
10 An estate landowner in Scotland (5)
11 The former name of Suriname, prior
to independence (5,6)
12 City cleared of rats (and
children) by the Pied Piper (7)
13 Doctrine promoting cooperation and
better understanding among
religious denominations (9)
14 One-sixtieth of a fluid drachm (5)
15 People who study ancient
inscriptions (11)
18 Winner of the Booker Prize in 1970
for "The Elected Member" (7,6)
21 Mongol conqueror of Central Asia (7,4)
22 A song or hymn of mourning (5)
24 Argot involving the reversal of
the letters in words (4,5)
27 Planet with a Great Red Spot (7)
28 A deficiency of diversity (11)
29 Virgin goddess of the hunt and the
moon (5)
30 Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor (5,3,3,6)
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Down
1 Musical featuring the song "I
Can't Say No" (8)
2 Film for which director Barry
Levinson won an Oscar in 1989 (4,3)
3 Classic 19th century novel
subtitled "A Study of
Provincial Life" (11)
4 Scupltor whose works include Le
Baiser and Le Penseur (5)
5 German-born empress of Russia,
notorious for amorous intrigues (9,3,5)
6 The first prime minister of the
Republic of India (5)
7 Structure in seed-bearing plants
that develops into a seed after
fertilisation (5)
8 Japanese three-stringed guitar-
like instruments (9)
9 Incident in which two vehicles
narrowly avoid collision (4,4)
15 Poems celebrating the achievements
of heroic individuals (5)
16 Normandy city that was the
birthplace of Gustave Flaubert (5)
17 Temporary projections of the
protoplasm of certain one-celled
organisms for locomotion or feeding (11)
18 Strong white porcelain invented by
Josiah Spode at the end of the
18th century (4,5)
19 Unable to lay (3-5)
20 Red-skinned long-keeping variety
of apple (8)
23 English county, of which Oakham is
the county town (7)
25 Slow-moving arboreal mammal of
South and Central America (5)
26 Middle East capital known as
Philadelphia in the Roman and
Byzantine periods (5)
27 The father of Israel's King David (5)
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