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1 Units of British currency historically based on the weight of 240 basic monetary units (6) 5 Noble family from Siena, which, after moving to Rome, rose to great prominence over the centuries (8) 9 Austrian mathematician and physicist, after whom the effect of relative motion on sound and light waves is named ( 7) 10 Navigator, best known for two voyages (in 1642 and 1644) undertaken for the Dutch East India Company (6) 11 The notorious debtors’ prison in Southwark, London, which features in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (10) 12 across/15 down German painter, prominent member of the ‘New Objectivity’ group, whose works were harshly critical of society in the Weimar Republic (4,3) 13 eg the Nazis’ attempted overthrow of the Weimar Republic, at a Munich beer hall in 1923 (6) 15 Robert, a favourite and possible lover of Queen Elizabeth I (6) 17 Historic Anglo-Saxon kingdom of south west England (6) 19 Although a non-monk, not born in the country, he was elected prime minister of the Tibetan governmentin-exile in 2011 (6) 21 A third-century BC treaty set this river as the boundary of Roman and Carthaginian interests in Spain (4) 22 The first socialist president of France (10) 25 Surname of the British conqueror of Sindh, and of the mathematician who originated the concept of logarithms (6) 26 A traditional tin-mining area of Cornwall or Devon (8) 27 Naval battle of 1905, in which Japan inflicted a heavy defeat on the Russian fleet (8) 28 A major figure in the French Revolution, whose moderate attitude in the Reign of Terror led to his own public execution (6)
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2 One of the most notorious of Britain’s ‘rotten boroughs’, ended by the Reform Act of 1832 (3,5) 3 Julius, possibly the last legitimate emperor of the western Roman empire (5) 4 One of the oldest boroughs of Cornwall, it is the location of Brunel’s Royal Albert Bridge ( 7) 5 First name of the Russian statesman who became tsar of Muscovy in 1598 (5) 6 The smallest historic county in England ( 7) 7 Dynasty of ancient Judea, whose first ruler was Simon Maccabeus in the second century BC (9) 8 City-state of ancient Greece, which focused on war and diplomacy at the expense of arts and philosophy (6) 14 Roman biographer and historian, Gaius, best known for his Lives of
the Caesars (9) 15 See 12 across 16 The philanthropist Thomas John, who founded homes for destitute orphaned children in the 1870s (8) 18 Japanese warrior class, 12th to 19th centuries, effectively abolished with the end of feudalism ( 7) 19 Robert the ___, a joint regent during David II’s periods of exile from Scotland, and from 1371, king in his own right ( 7) 20 Merchant vessels with concealed guns, used in the world wars to lure submarines to the surface (6) 23 Inventor, Nikola, a pioneer of alternating electric current, who worked for Edison and, later, Edison’s rival, Westinghouse (5) 24 A samurai warrior without lord or master in feudal Japan (5)