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Across
10 Musée du ---, landmark museum in Paris, on the Right Bank of the Seine (6) 11 French novelist whose works include the sevenvolume À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (6,6)
12 --- -up Sunday, the last Sunday before Advent, associated with the making of Christmas puddings (4) 13 A road surfacing and
roofing material (7)
14 Character in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (6)
15 A person in charge of a
specially trained dog (7)
16 Title of a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol (2,9)
20 A movement in a stream of air or water, causing a mini whirlwind or whirlpool (4) 21 In Greek mythology, a hero of Attica, who slew the Minotaur (7)
22 Pierre-Auguste ---, French Impressionist who painted Dance At Le Moulin De La Galette (6)
23 A herring that has been cleaned, salted and smoked (6)
25 Unit of land area equivalent
to 10,000 square metres (7) 27 12th-Century king of England, born on
Christmas Eve (4)
28 Estates where crops such as rubber and cotton are grown on a large scale (11) 29 Drinking vessels, usually of glass or metal, with a base and stem but without handles (7)
32 Umbelliferous plant with a long, tapering root, eaten as a vegetable (6)
35 A row of similar houses joined together by their side walls (7)
36 Winnie-the- ---, fictional teddy bear created by AA Milne (4)
37 Childhood home of
Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother, in Angus, Scotland (6,6)
38 Yearly records of events, generally in chronological order (6)
Down
1 Narrow promontory that is the southernmost point of Dorset, England (8,4)
2 See 18
3 Smooth rounded stone worn by the action of water (6)
4 John ---, leader of the British
Labour Party 1992-94 (5)
5 The first public performance
of a film, play or opera (8) 6 George --- ---, Irish playwright famous for works including Pygmalion (7,4)
7 City in Malaysia; the
capital of Perak state (4)
8 To perceive the
meaning of (6,2)
9 Arthur ---, American tennis player; 1975 Wimbledon singles champion (4)
17 Another name for the
gorse plant (5)
18, 19 and 2 Festive song by the band Wizzard, released in 1973 (1,4,2,5,2,9,8)
21 --- firma, solid ground (5) 24 An extensive unbroken view of a landscape in all directions (8)
26 Construction material made of a mixture of cement, sand, stone and water (8)
27 A hot type of green chilli pepper, used especially in Mexican cookery (8)
30 Allowing travel in a single
direction only (3-3)
31 Ed ---, leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, born on Christmas Day in 1965 (5)
33 A country, person or group united with another (4)
34 A specific piece of work
required to be done (4)