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1 He became archbishop of Canterbury in controversial circumstances and was deposed in 1070 ( 7) 5 She governed Normandy while her husband, William, was engaged in the conquest of England ( 7) 9 Members of a pre- Protestant Christian movement founded by John Wycliffe in the 14th century (8) 11 Black Country town whose 11th-century castle grounds were turned into a zoo in the 1930s (6) 12 English adventurer and one-time royal favourite executed on the orders of James VI & I (6) 13 Twentieth-century, Latvian-born British historian of ideas, Sir ___ Berlin (6) 15/6 down Type of castle introduced to Britain by the Normans; an important factor in their conquest (5-3- 6) 17 Object, such as the scarab beetle of ancient Egypt, supposedly endowed with protective supernatural powers (8) 18 Market town north of Liverpool noted for its gingerbread (now celebrated in a local festival) (8) 21 Surname of the second president (successor of Joseph Smith) of the Mormon church (5) 23 Annie, 19th/20th-century British social reformer and prominent supporter of Indian independence (6) 24/ 7 down A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) 26 Anthony, the ‘Flying Dutchman’, who made fighter aircraft for Germany in the First World War and later established companies in the US and the Netherlands (6) 27 The constitutional reforms of the Provisions of Oxford were forced upon this king of England (5,3) 28 Lincoln’s famous one was delivered at the site of a battle considered to be the American Civil War’s turning point ( 7) 29 The 19th-century US economist Henry George was a champion of this as the sole source of government revenues (4,3)
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2 One-time chancellor of England who wrote the influential History of
King Richard III (6,4) 3 First name of Reverend White of Selborne, Hampshire, an 18thcentury pioneering naturalist ( 7) 4 See 25 down 6 See 15 across 7 See 24 across 8 An assembly of the holy Roman empire, such as that before which Martin Luther appeared on heresy charges (4) 10 Satirist from 17th/18th century whose great work has become a classic of children’s literature (5) 14 African lake, first seen by Europeans when explorers Burton and Speke came across it in their search for the Nile’s source (10) 16 Ancient Greek Peloponnese city-state, noted for its temple to Asclepius (9) 19 The first recorded holder of this House of Commons office was Sir Thomas de Hungerford in 1377 ( 7) 20 Jack __, the 17th-century English executioner, notorious for his inept, barbarous methods (5) 22 The first great Muslim dynasty to rule the Caliphate empire between 661 and 750 ( 7) 24 Anglo-Saxon king who made 7thcentury Mercia into a powerful force (5) 25/4 down British prime minister, remembered for his role in the loss of the country’s American colonies (4,5)