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Highest mountain in the Pennine Hills, standing at 893 m (2930 feet) (5,4)

Island group in the south Aegean Sea forming a department of Greece; capital, Ermoupoli (8)

Cocktail of gin and vermouth typically garnished with an olive or a lemon twist (7)

2017 crime comedy film starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore (10)

Small high-pitched instrument of the recorder family with six or eight finger holes, originating in France (9)

Derived SI unit of magnetic flux, equal to a hundred million maxwells (5)

Variable star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud, becoming temporarily more luminous (4)

Port city of NE Brazil, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte (5)

Son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis (6)

Industrial city of north-west Germany on the Hase River, in Lower Saxony (9)

Mountain sacred to 17 Across, just north of Delphi in central Greece (9)

Slow stately court dance in triple time popular in the 17th and 18th centuries; French, ‘small, dainty’ (6)

City of NW Italy near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel (5)

Despotic Roman emperor born

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Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 37 AD (4)

Third letter of the Greek alphabet, cognate with the Hebrew gimel (5)

Character representing ‘and’, originating as a ligature of the Latin et (9)

Action-drama series starring Lee Majors as stuntman Colt Seavers (3,4,3)

Standard monetary unit of Paraguay, previously divided into 100 céntimos (7)

Smallest state of Mexico, bordered by Puebla, México and Hidalgo (8)

‘Quoth the Raven “___”’ Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Raven’ (9)

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Study of the technology, history, traditions etc. of bells (11)

Hibiscus esculentus, also known as ladies’ fingers and gumbo (4)

Thick flavoured paste of sugar and water; French, ‘melting’ (7)

The capital of Portugal, on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the River Tagus (6)

Character played by Josh Brolin in the upcoming superhero film provisionally entitled Deadpool 2 (5)

Edible freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, typically having barbels around the mouth (4)

Oscar Wilde play featuring the titular Sir Robert Chiltern (2,5,7)

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Genus of aquatic plants of the family Hydrocharitaceae that includes pondweed (6)

1970 Roald Dahl novel adapted into a film by Wes Anderson in 2009 (9,2,3)

Small deciduous European tree of the rose family with pinnate leaves, white flowers and red berries; Sorbus aucuparia (5)

Large migratory grasshopper of tropical and warm regions highly destructive to vegetation; family Acrididae, several species (6)

Capital and largest city of Eritrea, in the central Maekel Region (6)

Two-week period beginning on the Fifth Sunday of Lent and ending on Holy Saturday (11)

Plant genus of the knotgrass family to which rhubarb belongs (5)

Written law passed by a legislative body, e.g. an Act of Parliament (7)

Second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin (6)

Giant slain by Hercules as part of his tenth Labour (6)

Hot fluid or semi-fluid material within the earth’s crust that forms igneous rock when it cools (5)

Queen of Arendelle in the 2013 animated film Frozen voiced by actress and singer Idina Menzel (4)

Hit by US singer Beyoncé, from the album I Am... Sasha Fierce (4)

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