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1 Michael Bay film starring Bruce Willis as Harry S Stamper (10) 7 Mount … is an extinct volcano on the Kenya-Uganda border (5) 8 and 22 1975 book by Laurens Van Der Post (1,6,5) 10 Legendary continent said to have sunk beneath the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar (8) 11 and 21 Winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Cabaret (4,7) 13 Anne, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Fatal Attraction (6) 15 Town in SW France famed for its brandy (6) 17 A fabric made from fine threads produced by certain insect larvae (4) 18 Christopher, navigator and explorer who died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 (8) 21 See 11 22 See 8 23 Igor, composer of the ballets Pulcinella and Petrushka (10)

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1 1982 film debut by Neil Jordan (5) 2 The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord (8) 3 … Castle in Angus, Scotland is the ancestral seat of the Lyons family (6) 4 One sixteenth of an ounce in the avoirdupois system of weights (4) 5 Brownish bunting, Emberiza hortulana, that is eaten as a delicacy (7) 6 Unit of distance used in astronomy equivalent to 3,261,564 light years (10) 9 “The …”, 1957 novel by Iris Murdoch (10) 12 Group of islands in the Malay Archipelago formerly known as the Spice Islands (8) 14 Native American ceremonial pipe also called a peace pipe (7) 16 Wolf-boy in the Rudyard Kipling story collection The Jungle Book (6) 19 Alan Parker film starring Matthew Modine in the title role (5) 20 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix film thriller (4)