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5 British soldier and statesman, chief minister (who died in office) of George I (8) 7 See 11 across 9 German city whose name derives from the Benedictine monks who established a monastery at its location (6) 10 Descriptive of an order of Germanic Knights founded at the time of the Third Crusade (8) 11/ 7 Historic description of settlements such as Tombstone or Peshawar (8,4) 13 Founder of the Society of Jesus, and former 16th-century soldier, Ignatius of ___ (6) 14 English navigator, a seeker of the Northwest Passage, cast adrift by his mutinous crew and never seen again (5,6) 18 American astronomer whose observations in the first half of the 20th century played a major role in the ‘expanding universe’ theory (6) 20 A large-scale crime against people as perpetrated in Rwanda in 1994 (8) 21 A gold rush at the end of the 1890s occurred here in north-western Canada (8) 22 Portuguese coastal town whose name derives from the Roman Aviarium (‘gathering place of birds’) (6) 23 Thomas Cromwell was an earl of ___ (5) 24 Orkney location of the Ring of Brodgar, the circle of standing stones and henge that are part of a World Heritage Site (8) 1 Female symbol of the French Republic (8) 2 Nader ___ was an early 18thcentury ruler whose empire stretched from the Indus to the Caucasus Mountains (4) 3 Jamestown was the first permanent English one in the Americas (6) 4 A famous series of army rifles is associated with this London borough ( 7) 5 The name (after the Scottish explorer) of Alice Springs until 1933 (6) 6 He oversaw the modernisation and development of Russia and a narrowing of the gap between it and the west (5,3,5) 8 Scottish moor, scene of the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion (8) 12 People whose (modern) nation came into being following a declaration of statehood on 14 May 1948 (8) 15 See 22 down 16 The naval equivalent of the military sabre ( 7) 17 Such as the presidential one in 1863 at the site of a crucial battle of the American Civil War ( 7) 19 Another alias of the outlaw Billy the Kid was William H ___ (6) 22/15 Her marriage, a political one, to a king of England was annulled after only six months (4,2,6) Compiled by SOLUTION TO OUR FEBRUARY CROSSWORD Across: 7 Armour 9 Wansdyke 11 Chou En-Lai 12 Owain 13 Edith 14 Sigismund 16 Pella 17 Hoover 20 Transvaal 22 Edict 24 Aztec 26 Steve Biko 27 Thutmose 28 Uganda. Down: 1 Sanchez 2 Bucephalus 3 Ealing 4 Oslo 5 Syracuse 6 Kennedy 8 Maori 10 Alesia 15 Stonehenge 16 Plautius 17 Halley 18 U Thant 19 Ottoman 21 Assisi 23 Ilion 25 Camp. TEN WINNERS OF Oliver Frey, Ludlow; Michael Boyce, Wellingborough; A Moir, Coventry; Basil Black, Sawbridge; Val Keitch, Ilminster; MR Smith, Maldon; CJ Deacy, Cheadle; Stephen Watson, Bridlington; Richard Parry, London; E Squire, Bourne