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1. Coolness or assurance (derived
from the French words meaning
"according to the
plummet") (6)
5. An association of workers to
protect and further their rights
and interests (5,5)
10. An employee who does all kinds of
work (8)
11. A religious hypocrite (after the
protagonist in a play by Molière) (8)
12. A fleshy filament hanging from the
mouth of a fish (6)
13. Pre-Raphaelite painter whose works
include "The Hireling
Shepherd" and "Strayed
Sheep" (6,4)
14. A fabric woven by hand in the
Outer Hebrides (6,5)
15. Indian state almost completely
separated by Bangladesh from the
rest of India (5)
17. The state capital of Arizona (7)
19. The two main branches of the
trachea (7)
22. The head of the municipal
corporation of a city or borough (5)
23. State established by the Lateran
Treaty of 1929 (7,4)
26. The protective plate around a
keyhole or door handle (10)
27. The parallel of latitude 23°26' north or south of the equator (6)
28. A wine made from a single
designated variety of grape (8)
29. A Chinese-style dish taking its
name from the Cantonese words
meaning "mixed bits" (4,4)
30. Megalithic monument in Wiltshire,
a World Heritage Site (10)
31. Substitute or imitation
(especially of inferior quality) (6)
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2. Battle in which the Persian army
was defeated by the Greeks in 479
BC (7)
3. The coup d'état in November 1917 that established a Soviet government in Russia (7,10)
4. A naval vessel with the heaviest
armour and the largest guns (10)
5. An American Indian axe with a
stone or iron head, used as a
weapon (8)
6. The main island group of the West
Indies, including all but the
Bahamas (8)
7. Controversial rap performer whose
real name is Marshall Bruce
Mathers III (6)
8. Pencil-and-paper game also known
as tic-tac-toe (7,3,7)
9. German composer of "La Vie
Parisienne" (9)
16. The sternum (10)
18. An advantage granted or gained at
an early stage (4,5)
20. Portuguese navigator, leader of
the fist expedition to
circumnavigate the globe (8)
21. The upright cylindrical stand
holding a ship's compass (8)
24. A US type of submarine-launched
long-range ballistic missile (7)
25. Whisky distilled in Scotland (6)
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