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7 Gymnasium in Athens, location of Aristotle’s ‘peripatetic’ philosophical school (6) 9 A renowned building of Petra, carved by the Nabataeans (8) 11 The Slavery ___ Act (1833), which outlawed slavery across most of the British empire (9) 12 Surname adopted (from the first name of a poet) by a celebrated US songwriter (5) 13 George, British admiral known chiefly for his arduous voyage around the world (1740– 44) (5) 14 It gets its name from the great variety of new plant species found there on Captain Cook’s expedition of 1770 (6,3) 16/26 down A name applied to many cemeteries of the American west such as at Dodge City (4,4) 18/25 across Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, had this mausoleum built, over a period of 20 years, to immortalise his dead wife (3,5) 20 Most of its prisoners were released in the two years following the Belfast Agreement (4) 22 Term applied to the federal legislative chamber of the German Empire (1871–1918) (9) 24 The first president of Malawi (5) 25 See 18 across 27 One of the most famous examples of such political division is that of India in 1947 (9) 28 A fifth-century Frankish legal code, one provision of which has been interpreted as barring females from inheriting land (5,3) 29 Ancient stone burial chamber, such as that at Poulnabrone, Ireland (6)
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1 Political organisation founded in the late 1950s with the aim of liberating Palestine (2-5) 2 A member of the Nile Valley civilisation known to ancient Egypt as Kush (6) 3 Bill, German-born photographer, celebrated for his documentation of 20th- century British life (6) 4 Addictive, opium-based drink traditionally used as an analgesic, available without prescription until early 20th century (8) 5 See 19 down 6 Under the enlightened governorship of Lachlan Maquarie (early 19th century), it developed from a penal colony to a thriving town (6) 8 A former centre of the linen industry in County Tyrone, near to the Beaghmore stone circles and cairns (9) 10 Structure traditionally used to hang and display the bodies of condemned criminals (6) 15 Ancient city which became the capital of the Eastern Roman empire and later Istanbul (9) 17 As the wooden support, used for beheadings, was called (3,5) 19/5 18th-century English agricultural pioneer – his seed drill machine was a prototype for all future sowing implements (6,4) 21 British statesman who died only a few months after becoming prime minister ( 7) 22 Specially designed ones were developed for Operation Chastise ( May 1943) (5) 23 Annually, from 1838– 45, Charles Pelham Villiers instigated parliamentary debates to ___ the duty on corn (6) 24 Member of a nation that, technically, came into being with the act of Union of 1707 (6) 26 See 16 across