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1. Popular novel by P.C. Wren about
the Foreign Legion, first
published in 1924 (4,5)
6. A republic in southern Africa that
gained independence in 1990 (7)
10. A card game for three players,
popular in the 17th and 18th
centuries (5)
11. The Roman god of medicine and
healing (11)
12. Region in the east of the Czech
Republic (7)
13. One affected by nervous disease,
or with an abnormally sensitive
nervous system (9)
14. Composer of the ballet 'Daphnis et Chloe' (5)
15. American impressionist painter who
was a pupil and close follower of
Degas (4,7)
18. A method of voice production used
by male singers to sing notes
higher than their normal range (8)
19. Superficially improving or
beneficial (8)
22. Powerful herbicide used by the US
armed forces to defoliate jungles
in the Vietnam War (5,6)
24. English cricketer of the 1950s, a
fast bowler nicknamed 'Typhoon' (5)
26. A female slave or concubine in the
Turkish Sultan's seraglio (9)
29. The tympanic membrane (7)
30. Derbyshire home built for the 15th
Earl of Shrewsbury (5,6)
31. English historian who wrote
"Power tends to corrupt and
absolute power corrupts
absolutely" (5)
32. A soluble gummy substance obtained
by boiling starch and used as an
adhesive (7)
33. U.S. state lying between the
Mississippi River and the Smoky
Mountains (9)
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Down
1. A large loaf with a rounded
diagonally slashed top (7)
2. 1992 Winter Olympic Games venue (11)
3. Middle name of the author P. G.
Wodehouse (9)
4. A Latin hymn on the suffering of
the Virgin Mary at the Crucifixion (6,5)
5. Danish port whose castle was the
setting for Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' (8)
6. Island republic in the Pacific
with the world's richest deposits of phosphates (5)
7. Fields in which grass is grown for
hay (7)
8. Deep-water seaport on the coast of
Mozambique (5)
9. A system of principles for the
appreciation of the beautiful (9)
16. A period in which the hunting of
game is illegal (5,6)
17. Cloud formed as a continuous
uniform layer at medium altitude (11)
18. French painter who painted
'The Progress of Love' for Madame
du Barry (9)
20. A procession of cars or other
vehicles (9)
21. Money paid for the use of money
lent (8)
23. A volatile liquid used to dilute
paint etc. (7)
25. A person in whose name a stock is
registered (7)
27. A kind of plaster applied to give
a textured finish to walls and
ceilings (5)
28. An external angle of a building (5)
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