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Across

10 To go back on a promise (6)

11 American inventor who developed the phonograph and the electric light bulb (6,6)

12 and 9 Down 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney (4,4)

13 Arthur ---, French poet who wrote A Season In Hell (7)

14 --- Thompson-Herah, Jamaican sprinter; 100m and 200m Olympic champion in 2016 and 2020 (6)

15 A red wine produced in a region of central Italy (7)

16 A medieval drama based on a biblical story or the life of a saint (7,4)

20 See 28

21 Plant widely cultivated for its ornamental leaves and waxy flowers (7)

22 A state of anxiety and apprehension (6)

23 The person who owns and is selling a house or piece of land (6)

25 A Greek wine, flavoured with resin (7)

27 Samuel ---, 19th-Century American inventor credited with popularising the revolver (4)

28 and 20 English architect who designed St Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London (11,4)

29 To excite, disturb or trouble; worry (7)

32 A surprise attack from a concealed position (6)

35 and 2 Down 20th-Century French composer and organist who was inspired by birdsong (7,8)

36 To demolish completely (4)

37 American actress and writer who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films (6,6)

38 An extra or repeated performance given in response to demand from an audience (6)

Down

1 Welsh song and military march, first published without lyrics in the 18th Century (3,2,7)

2 See 35 Across

3 and 30 The --- ---, 1911 children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett featuring the character Mary Lennox (6,6)

4 The base part of a tree trunk left standing after the tree has been felled (5)

5 A specified occupation, profession or trade (8)

6 Kingdom in south-west Asia, the capital and largest city of which is Riyadh (5,6)

7 In Greek mythology, the goddess of youth and spring (4)

8 The --- ---, nickname for New York City (3,5)

9 See 12 Across

17 Niki ---, Austrian driver who won the Formula 1 World Championship three times in the 1970s and 1980s (5)

18 The lowest temperature theoretically attainable (8,4)

19 A pathological fear of being in public places (11)

21 A round close-fitting brimless cap of soft wool or felt (5)

24 A cocktail made from rum, lime juice and syrup or sugar (8)

26 --- --- Watch, 1642 painting by Rembrandt, a famous work of the Dutch Golden Age (3,5)

27 Partial or total opacity of the crystalline lens of the eye (8)

30 See 3

31 --- Plowman, Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland (5)

33 A wide, water-filled ditch surrounding a fortified place (4)

34 Long-handled implements with light blades, used to till the soil (4)