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2017 science fiction drama film starring Scarlett Johansson (5,2,3,5)

Class of cold-blooded vertebrates that includes newts, frogs etc. (8)

Youngest daughter of Russian tsar Nicholas II, believed to have been executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 (9)

Annually elected magistrate in ancient Rome ranking just below a consul (7)

Position on a chromosome at which a particular gene is located (5)

Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1702–14; the last of the Stuart monarchs (4)

Unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards or 4046.86 square metres (4)

1785 poem by Robert Burns beginning ‘Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie’ (2,1,5)

Hard-wearing fabric woven from spun flax fibres, used for clothing, sheets etc. (5)

Largest of the modern constellations, in the southern hemisphere between Virgo and Antlia (5)

Two of the apostles of Jesus; a son of Zebedee and the son of Alphaeus (Matthew 10:2) (5)

Marked-out rectangular area in which fencing bouts take place (5)

Wine bottle holding the equivalent of six normal bottles (approximately 156 fluid ounces) (8)

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Large flightless New Zealand bird (Gallirallus australis) also known as the Maori hen (4)

God of death in Roman mythology, counterpart of the Greek Thanatos (4)

Manuel ___, president of the Spanish Republic overthrown by Francisco Franco in 1939 (5)

British naval warship larger than a corvette and smaller than a destroyer (7)

Bright green mineral consisting of hydrated copper carbonate, used as an ornamental stone (9)

Card game invented by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 1600s (8)

English author of novels including Westward Ho! (1855) and The Water-Babies (1863) (7,8)

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Greek physician commonly regarded as the father of modern medicine (11)

Inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle (5)

Vitamin of the B complex found in foods such as peanuts, sunflower seeds and meat; nicotinic acid (6)

Condition of a closed system in which entropy is at a maximum and no energy is available for use (4,5)

Janet and Peter’s pet dog in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven stories (7)

Largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire, on the River Lliedi (8)

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Usual name for the Williams pear in the United States and Canada (8)

Island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia; capital, Manama (7)

Capital of Macedonia since 1944, in the north on the Vardar River (6)

High-quality black tea from NE India, a variety of Camellia sinensis (5)

Largest lake in Europe, in NW Russia north-east of St Petersburg (6)

Star of the 2017 films Southern Fury and Vengeance: A Love Story (7,4)

Solid particles in liquids such as wine and coffee that sink to the bottom (5)

US comedy-drama series (2011-) starring William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum (9)

Character played by Uma Thurman in the 1998 action spy film The Avengers (4,4)

‘To throw a ___ on the violet’ Shakespeare, King John (7)

Group of three letters representing a single sound, as in the igh of light (8)

Prophetic book of the Old Testament describing the downfall of Judah and Jerusalem and their subsequent restoration (7)

Industrial city of NE India, capital of the state of Jharkhand (6)

Edvard __, Norwegian composer whose works include the incidental music for Peer Gynt (5)

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