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Colourless orange-flavoured liqueur originating in 19th-century France (6,3)

Powerful need or instinct that motivates behaviour, e.g. hunger or sex (5)

Dramatic but unstaged musical composition for soloists, choir and orchestra, usually based on a scriptural theme (8)

Middle Eastern dessert consisting of thin layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and soaked in honey (7)

State capital and largest city of Iowa, lying between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers (3,6)

Simultaneous sounding of a group of notes of different pitch, usually three or more in number (5)

Largest and northernmost island of the Inner Hebrides (4)

and Portuguese singer who won the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Amar pelos dois’ (8,6)

Seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter res (3)

David ___, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist known for creating Colonel Blimp (3)

Crime of marrying a person while still legally married to someone else (6)

Stanza or poem of four lines, especially one with alternate rhymes (8)

Virginia ___, English tennis player who won the Wimbledon Women’s Singles title in 1977 (4)

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‘Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to ___’ Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama (5)

North American river rising in SW Colorado and flowing southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming part of the border between the US and Mexico (3,6)

Scandinavian spirit made from potatoes or grain and flavoured with caraway seeds (7)

Thick dark liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used to preserve wood (8)

European city that hosted the Summer Olympics in 1900 and 1924 (5)

Capital of Norway until 1380, formerly called Nidaros (9)

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Actor who played Sebastian Wilder in the 2016 film La La Land (4,7)

Any tree of the coniferous genus Larix, especially the European L. decidua (5)

Box from which cards are dealt in games such as baccarat, especially in casinos (4)

Tall palm tree of the Seychelles also called double coconut; Lodoicea maldivica (4,2,3)

Claude ___, French composer whose works include the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (7)

Royal house of France ruling from the accession of Philip VI to the death of Henry III (6)

Breach of syntax or nonstandard

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grammatical construction; from Greek, ‘speaking incorrectly’ (8)

Nigel ___, English motor-racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1992 (7)

Jewelled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty; from Greek, ‘to bind’ (6)

Capital city of South Korea, in the north-west on the Han River (5)

Any edible marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Ostrea, having a rough irregularly shaped shell (6)

Prime Minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998 and 2006 to 2008 (6,5)

Small body in seed-bearing plants that contains the embryo sac and develops into a seed after fertilisation (5)

Scottish band who topped the charts with ‘Love Is All Around’ in 1994 (3,3,3)

2017 action comedy film starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn (8)

John ___, English director of films including Excalibur and The Tailor of Panama (7)

Thick medicinal syrup taken to relieve coughs and soothe sore throats (7)

Large grey-green arboreal lizard of tropical America having a spiny crest along the back (6)

2015 sports drama film starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone (5)

Mountain nymph in Greek mythology whose advances were spurned by Narcissus (4)

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