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Highest point of the Pennines, on the Pennine Way in eastern Cumbria (5,4)
Derived SI unit of electric capacitance, equal to that of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt (5)
Class of six-legged arthropods that includes the insects (8)
1973 crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino (7)
Star of the 2018 historical drama film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (4,5)
Sport whose first professional World Champion was Leighton Rees (1978) (5)
Thin Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour, often served in broth (4)
2011-17 British/American sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig (8)
Soft silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline earth group with the atomic number 56 (6)
French sweetness designation of sparkling wines containing 17 to 32 grams of sugar per litre (3)
Alias of Thomas Anderson in The Matrix (1999) and its sequels (3)
Treeless plain in the arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America, having permanently frozen subsoil (6)
1975 No. 1 hit by ABBA, from their
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self-titled third album (5,3)
Southernmost of North America’s five Great Lakes, drained by the Niagara River (4)
and Prime Minister of Armenia who succeeded Karen Karapetyan on 8 May 2018 (5,9)
Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, and the consort of the god Vishnu (7)
Desmond ___, Welsh actor who played Q in 17 James Bond films between 1963 and 1999 (8)
Department in the Grand Est region of France; capital, Bar-le-Duc (5)
Any of the prominent tendons in the popliteal space at the back of the knee (9)
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Oscar-winning star of the 1964 musical film My Fair Lady (3,8)
River of eastern France rising in the Vosges mountains and joining the Rhône at Lyons (5)
Elder son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob in Genesis (4)
New Mexico town in which the first atomic bomb was developed in the 1940s (3,6)
Pasta in the form of short spirals; Italian, literally ‘little spindles’ (7)
Application to a higher court or authority for a decision to be reversed (6)
‘Familiarity breeds contempt - and ___’ (Mark Twain Notebooks
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Capital of the state of Brandenburg in east Germany, directly bordering Berlin (7)
Bram ___, Irish novelist best remembered for 1897’s Dracula (6)
Length of thread or yarn coiled loosely, especially in a figure of eight (5)
Robert ___, US director of films including 2001’s Gosford Park (6)
Actor who voiced Cogsworth in the 2017 film Beauty and the Beast (3,8)
Group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor (5)
Jacques ___, German-born French composer of operettas including Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) (9)
Italian liqueur mixed with vodka and orange juice to make a Harvey Wallbanger (8)
Capital and chief port of Libya, known in Arabic as Tarabulus el Gharb (7)
White crystalline pyrimidine base found in DNA, paired with adenine (7)
Gliding step in dancing in which one foot displaces the other; French, ‘chased’ (6)
‘How ___the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!’ (Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice) (5)
Any of numerous marine bivalve molluscs chiefly of the subclass Heterodonta, including the North American quahog (4)
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