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1 National emblem of 16 Across (8) 2 The _______ rural radio drama set in fictional Ambridge (7) 3 The House at ____ Corner; a book by AA Milne (4) 5 Ladies in ________; film directed by Charles Dance starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith (8) 6 English painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style who created The Lady of Shalott (10) 7 Great Barrier ____; biggest single structure composed of living organisms on Earth (4) 9 Actress who starred as Cathy in William Wyler’s 1939 film version of Wuthering Heights (6) 10 Reading Without _____; 1857 educationa­l book for children by Favell Lee Mortimer (5) 11 In hematology, the common name for an erythrocyt­e (3,5,4) 12 Largest modern constellat­ion (5) 13 Moon orbiting the seventh planet (7) 20 Element with an atomic number believed to be unlucky by some (9) 21 Bird with a yellow breast; a common or regular visitor to garden feeders (4,3) 25 Mammals known collective­ly as colonies, kindles, husks or trips (7) 26 Cathedral city often described as England’s smallest (5) 27 Former German air force (9) 29 Ruminant native to Britain (3,4) 32 A horsewoman, generally skilled (12) 33 Player’s turn at batting in cricket (7) 34 Word prefixed to a type of flour used to make biscuits and pizza dough (5) 37 The ______, ____; literary and arts journal with contributo­rs that included Max Beerbohm and Edmund Gosse and Aubrey Beardsley as art editor (6,4) 41 Breton _______; traditiona­l French buckwheat crêpe eaten with egg, spinach or Gruyère cheese (7) 42 Branch of mathematic­s concerned with the operations of calculus (8) 43 Garment forming half of a twinset (8) 47 Japanese Volcano Island, site of a major battle of the Pacific War (3,4) 48 Spanish word for a brook that fills seasonally after sufficient rainfall (6) 49 Co-host of British TV series Countrywis­e who completed the Atlantic Rowing Race with James Cracknell in 2005-06 (5) 51 _ _ _ _ _Owl; assistant adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides (informal) (5) 54 _ _ _ _-fleur; French for cauliflowe­r (4) 55 Indian state, site of a mausoleum said to have taken around 22,000 people to build with the help of 1,000 elephants (4)

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