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French landscape painter whose Impression, Sunrise gave Impressionism its name (6,5)

Small fleshy cartilaginous flap partly covering the entrance to the external ear (6)

Unicameral parliament of Sweden, founded in 1866 (7)

Capital of the Yukon Territory in NW Canada, on the Alaska Highway (10)

Emma Watson’s co-star in the 2017 sci-fi thriller The Circle (3,5)

National tree of Canada; genus Acer, family Sapindaceae (5)

‘Nae man can tether ___ or tide’ Robert Burns ‘Tam o’Shanter (4)

Clement ___, British Labour statesman; Prime Minister from 1945–51 (6)

Brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor, and the eighth-brightest in the sky (7)

Metric unit of length equal in engineering terms to ten angstroms (9)

Common name for America’s Federal National Mortgage Association (6,3)

Twenty-fourth instalment of the James Bond films, released in 2015 (7)

Music (To be performed) smoothly, without breaks between notes (6)

Supporter of the American side during the War of American Independence (4)

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Fourth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands, lying north-west of Oahu (5)

Mario ___, Italian-born motorracing driver who won the Formula One world championship in 1978 (8)

Resort town of central Switzerland on the River Aare between Lakes Brienz and Thun (10)

Pungent red-brown volatile liquid element of the halogen series; from Geek, ‘stench’ (7)

City that replaced Istanbul as the capital of Turkey in 1923 (6)

Stringed box-like musical instrument that produces sounds when exposed to a current of air (7,4)

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Name by which Oslo was officially known from 1624 to 1877 (11)

Egyptian symbol consisting of a cross with a loop above the horizontal bar, signifying life (4)

Muse of lyric and love poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted holding a lyre (5)

Rock music of the late 1970s derived from punk but with greater complexity (3,4)

Sequence of cards forming a single round of play in bridge, whist etc. (5)

River forming the boundary between the ceremonial counties of Durham and Yorkshire (4)

1979 war film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola (10,3)

Twentieth letter of the Greek

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alphabet, derived from the Phoenician waw (7)

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American-born Irish statesman who founded the Fianna Fáil party in 1926 (5,2,6)

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Country of SE Europe formed in 1859 through a union of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (7)

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2017 song by Icelandic singer Björk, from the album Utopia (3,4)

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Swedish hard rock band who topped the charts with ‘The Final Countdown’ in 1986 (6)

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Pulpy residue of apples or other fruits after crushing and pressing, as in cider-making (6)

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1939 hardboiled crime novel by author Raymond Chandler that introduced the detective Philip Marlowe (3,3,5)

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Longest river in Ireland, named after the Celtic goddess Sionna (7)

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Character who married Shylock’s daughter Jessica in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (7)

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Standard currency unit of Eritrea, divided into one hundred cents (5)

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and Finely powdered form of gypsum used to make paints, paper etc; Latin, ‘white earth’ (5,4)

Official endorsement in a passport allowing the holder to enter or leave the country issuing it (4)