The Star Early Edition

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ACROSS 1 1890 play by Henrik Ibsen (5,6) 9 Mediterran­ean variety of wild marjoram (7) 10 Maria, tennis player who was the 1959 US Women’s National Singles Championsh­ip winner (5) 11 Nick, 1990 British Open golf champion (5) 12 David, 18th Century English actor and theatre manager born in Hereford (7) 13 Genus of plants that includes dyer’s rocket and wild mignonette (6) 15 See 4 Down 18 Sol, South African linguist and statesman who was the first ANC Secretary-General (7) 20 Madagascan primate having a foxy face and long tail (5) 22 Winona, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Age of Innocence (5) 23 Soft white unsalted cheese made from sheep’s milk (7) 24 Capital of Argentina (6,5) DOWN 2 Tom, actor whose film roles included Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch (5) 3 Colourless hard mineral composed of carbon (7) 4 and 15 Across Central character in John le Carré’s novel The Honourable Schoolboy (6,6) 5 Elephant in children’s stories by Jean de Brunhoff (5) 6 Hebrew prophet of the 6th Century B.C. (7) 7 Robert Altman film featuring Jeremy Northam as Ivor Novello (7,4) 8 The fruit of the baobab tree (6,5) 14 District of Berlin at the confluence of the Havel and Spree Rivers (7) 16 Old Testament Hebrew prophet of the 5th Century B.C. (7) 17 GWG, 19th Century US engineer who designed a rotating fairground attraction (6) 19 Industrial city in N Poland on the River Vistula (5) 21 In film and television, a mask used to blank out part of an image so that another can be superimpos­ed (5)

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