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1 Actor who starred in the series Chancer and films including Gosford Park, The Bourne Identity, Closer and Ernest Hemingway & Gellhorn (4) 4 Late Nobel Peace Prize-winning antiapartheid revolutionary imprisoned for 27 years who later became South Africa’s first black president (7) 8 English aeronautical engineer who designed the Supermarine Spitfire (8) 12 Cold Comfort ____; film starring Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry, based on Stella Gibbons’ classic of the same name (4) 13 Inconspicuous constellation lying on the celestial equator between Canis Major and Canis Minor, said to represent a unicorn (9) 14 Land mass off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula known as Prince of Wales Island until 1867 (6) 15 Actress whose roles include Aunt Sally in Worzel Gummidge, Miss Bat in TheWorst Witch and Mrs Hudson in Sherlock (6) 16 To relinquish the lead in bridge; also the departure of an actor/actress from the stage (4) 17 Book in the Jack Reacher thriller series by Lee Child between Without Fail and The Enemy (9) 19 The capital of Bolivia and with an elevation of 11,942 ft, the world’s highest city (2,3) 21 Red supergiant and brightest star in the constellation Scorpius; one of the four so-called royal stars of Persia (7) 22 First name of a fictional character created by Helen Fielding (7) 26 Chief god of the Norse pantheon, ruler of Asgard (4) 28 Second-largest city of Egypt, founded by a student of Aristotle who created one of the biggest empires of the ancient world (10) 30 Yorkshire-born architect-turnedactor who starred in more than 100 films including A Star is Born, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Georgy Girl (5) 33 Generic term for a fear of animals (9) 34 One of the 15 radioactive chemical elements in the actinide series, atomic number 94 (9)

37 SI derived unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square metre (5) 38 City in the UK founded by the Romans as Glevum, site of Brockworth where an annual cheese-rolling contest takes place on Cooper’s Hill (10) 39 First name of the hippie character played by Nigel Planer in the 1980s series The Young Ones (4) 41 Whig politician traditionally regarded as the first British prime minister whose son wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (7) 43 Classic French yeast bread enriched with butter and eggs (7) 45 Scottish village where Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and Charles II were crowned on the Stone of Destiny (5) 49 Point on the earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake (9) 51 Virologist who developed the first effective polio vaccine (4) 52 Comic actor who formed part of a double act with the entertainer nicknamed Babe (6) 55 The ______; 1988 play by Michael Frayn based works by Anton Chekhov (6) 56 Genus name of various species of plant including daffodils and jonquil (9) 57 Legendary marksman who successfully shot an apple from above his son’s head with a crossbow (4) 58 Clear French soup that is clarified with egg whites (8) 59 Sicilian city founded in the eighth century by the Greeks (7) 60 Branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet with a white rose emblem (4)

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2 Architect who designed Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, England (5) 3 Country with the capital Windhoek (7) 4 Genus of many species of herbs and shrubs in the legume family Fabaceae (6) 5 Yellowish cloth used for trousers (7) 6 In Mexican cookery, stuffed corn tortillas served with chilli sauce (10) 7 Hundred ____ Wood; fictional locale created by AA Milne (4) 8 Mollusc served in moules marinière and moules-frites (6) 9 Bayeux ________; 70 metre-long embroidered cloth illustrating events leading up to the Norman conquest (8) 10 Official verbatim record of debates in the British parliament (7) 11 Attack move in fencing (5) 18 _____ Bears’ Picnic; song that featured in Dennis Potter’s drama The Singing Detective (5) 20 Mythological princess chained to a rock and exposed to a sea monster sent by Poseidon, saved by Perseus (9) 23 Art or study of effective speaking (9) 24 Variety of winter cabbage (5) 25 Colour between blue and purple (6) 27 Landlocked country, site of Earth’s highest mountain (5) 29 ______ dormouse; creature farmed as food by the ancient Romans (6) 31 Secretary General of the United Nations from 1997-2006 (5) 32 Great _____ of 1703; catastrophic event chronicled by Daniel Defoe (5) 35 Mountain such as Ben Nevis (5) 36 Art of performing stunts in a plane or other flying craft (10) 40 ________ Palace; residence of the Duke of Marlborough (8) 42 The Flying _______; a cappella group who covered Yazoo’s Only You in 1983 (7) 44 Japanese ukiyo-e painter who created The Great-Wave off Kanagawa (7) 46 _______ Life; magazine based on rural living and property (7) 47 Metal used to create The Thinker (6) 48 Colourless liquid part of blood (6) 50 _____ Twistleton; character in PG Wodehouse’s Uncle Fred books (5) 53 Swiss mathematician noted for work on infinitesimal calculus (5) 54 Chickpea flour used to make poppadums and pakoras (4)