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Tenth and shortest novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1854 (4,5)

Silver coin of ancient Rome originally with a value of ten asses (8)

Island state in the Caribbean formerly a British colony; capital, St George’s (7)

Industrial city of the SE Netherlands; capital of the province of Limburg (10)

Decisive naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Atlantic off the SW coast of Spain on October 21, 1805 (9)

Sterile hybrid offspring of a female donkey and a male horse (5)

Strong colourless Greek spirit flavoured with aniseed (4)

Any of the postures adopted in performing hatha yoga (5)

Large bladed farming implement for cutting or turning earth, typically drawn by a tractor or draught animals (6)

Organism, especially a fungus, that lives inside a plant in a parasitic or mutualistic relationship (9)

Mountain-dwelling arctic and subarctic grouse with white winter plumage (9)

Wealthy heiress married to Bassanio in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (6)

Emilio ___, chief antagonist of the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball (5)

Inert gaseous element obtained by distillation of liquid air, atomic no. 10 (4)

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‘Thou still unravished ___ of quietness’ (John Keats ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’) (5)

Glossy yellow tropical fruit with a five-pointed cross section; also called star fruit (9)

Cocktail made with rum, pineapple juice and coconut milk; Spanish, ‘strained pineapple’ (4,6)

Longest river of New Zealand, flowing from Lake Taupo at the centre of North Island to the Tasman Sea (7)

Eroded and barren plateau region of the western US, mainly in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska (8)

1965 hit by the Beatles, released with the B-side ‘Act Naturally’ (9)

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1956 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra (4,7)

Basic monetary unit of Cambodia, divided into 100 sen (4)

Midwestern US state bordered by Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky (7)

Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia in Greek mythology; mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus (6)

Capital and largest city of Bangladesh, on the east bank of the Buriganga River (5)

Single tone of definite pitch or frequency, as made by a musical instrument or the human voice (4)

1987 crime comedy film starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter (7,7)

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Third Secretary-General of the United Nations, in office from 1961 to 1971 (1,5)

1929 play by A. A. Milne adapted from Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows (4,2,4,4)

Medium-sized dog with a smooth brown coat and pug-like face, developed in Germany from the Old English Bulldog and the Bullenbeisser (5)

Small faint southern constellation south of Hydra and north of Vela; the Air Pump (6)

Female reproductive part of a flower, consisting of one or more separate or fused carpels (6)

2016 animated film featuring the voices of Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks (7,4)

Derived SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second (5)

Former English law (1715-1967) by which groups of twelve or more people could be dispersed by authorities to maintain the peace (4,3)

Traditional Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast (6)

Vast collection of star systems, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction (6)

Richard ___, English author of novels including Watership Down and Shardik (5)

Fourth book of the New Testament, written by ‘the Disciple whom Jesus loved’ (4)

Unit of linear measure defined since 1959 as 0.9144 metres (4)

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