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1 Name by which China was known to medieval Europe, popularised by the writings of Marco Polo ( 6) 4 Alternative name for the North American coyote ( Canis latrans) ( 7,4) 9 Acquired name of the Russian monk Grigory Yefimovich Novykh; literally, ‘ debauchee one’ ( 8) 10 Genus of filamentous green algae of the order Zygnematales, named for their helical structure ( 9) 11 Capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula ( 2,3) 12 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli ( 7) 14 Yugoslav Marshal and statesman who served as Prime Minister and President ( 4) 17 ‘ Gem State’ of the north- western US, bounded on the north by British Columbia ( 5) 18 Creator god of ancient Egypt; husband of Sekhmet and father of Nefertum ( 4) 19 Early type of modern man who lived in Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic, from about 50,000 to 30,000 years ago ( 3- 6) 21 Christopher ___, English dramatist whose works include Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta ( 7) 22 Dessert of thin pastry rolled up around a fruit filling and baked; German, ‘ whirlpool’ ( 7) 25 British singer and actor born Terence Nelhams- Wright in 1940 ( 4,5) 27 River of central Europe on which the German cities of Dresden and Hamburg stand ( 4) 28 Dynasty that ruled Muscovy and much of Russia from the 9th century until the death of Feodor I, son of Ivan the Terrible, in 1598 ( 5) 29 Largest of Earth’s seven continents, connected to Africa by the Isthmus of Suez ( 4) 31 Large group of islands in the central and S Pacific including Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia ( 7) 33 Measure of the proportion of gold in an alloy, expressed as the number of parts of gold in 24 parts of alloy ( 5) 36 Hindu system of physical exercises combining difficult postures with controlled breathing ( 5,4) 37 Large Eurasian maple with winged fruits and five- lobed leaves; Acer pseudoplatanus ( 8) 38 British mathematician, whose An Investigation of the Laws of Thought established an eponymous form of algebra ( 6,5) 39 Lawn game invented by British army officer Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1873 as Sphairistike ( Greek, “ball- playing”) ( 6)
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1 Greek- derived alphabet used for various Slavic languages, including Russian and Bulgarian ( 8) 2 Any of the filaments that make up the body ( mycelium) of a fungus ( 5) 3 Large hairy creature said to live in the upper Himalayas; from Tibetan, ‘ little manlike animal’ ( 4) 4 External ( especially upper) part of the ear; the auricle ( 5)5 Small tufted beard growing below the lower lip, popularised by Napoleon III of France ( 8) 6 2015 Woody Allen film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone ( 10,3) 7 Shipping forecast area in the English Channel off the coast of Hampshire and Sussex, between Portland to the west and Dover to the east ( 5) 8 US actress who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on TV’s M* A* S* H ( 7,4) 13 Small Russian pancakes made from buckwheat flour and yeast, typically served with sour cream ( 5) 15 Photographic process with an image produced on iodine- sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour ( 13) 16 ‘ To the Puritan, all things are ___’ ( D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places ( 1932) ‘ Cerveteri’) ( 6) 18 Celestial object, thought to be a rapidly rotating neutron star, that emits regular bursts of polarized radiation; first observed in 1967 ( 6) 20 Any venomous American pit viper of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus ( 11) 23 2008 Liam Neeson action film followed by two sequels ( 5) 24 Notes of a chord played in rapid succession, either ascending or descending ( 8) 26 1988 black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty ( 8) 30 Hebrew patriarch of the Old Testament, son of Jacob and Zilpah ( 5) 32 Matter remaining in dispute between parties to an action after pleadings ( 5) 34 Capital and largest city of Jordan, lying northeast of the Dead Sea ( 5) 35 Improvised jazz singing, the voice is used in imitation of an instrument ( 4)
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