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Third book of the Old Testament, containing details of law and ritual (9)

Botany Stalk such as that supporting the cap (pileus) of a mushroom (5)

1981-91 BBC1 detective series starring John Nettles and Terence Alexander (8)

Hard yellow cow’s-milk cheese named after a town in western Switzerland (7)

President-elect of Colombia, due to succeed Juan Manuel Santos on August 7, 2018 (4,5)

‘[F]rom hell’s ___ I stab at thee’ (Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) ch. 135) (5)

Subunit of Chinese currency equal to one tenth of a yuan (4)

Mythical serpent with a lethal gaze and breath, said to have been hatched by a serpent from a cock’s egg (8)

M.C. ___ (1898–1972), Dutch graphic artist noted for his use of visual illusion and paradoxical perspective (6)

Fluid that circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts (3)

Raised fibres of a fabric such as velvet, or the direction in which they lie when smoothed down (3)

Canaanite deity in the Old Testament to whom parents sacrificed their children (2 Kings 23:10, Jeremiah 32:35) (6)

2018 comedy film starring Diane

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Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen (4,4)

Shipping forecast area south of Forth, west of Dogger and north of Humber (4)

Sixth-largest island of Hawaii, lying immediately west of Maui (5)

2004 film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton (4,5)

Port city of E Argentina known from 1952 to 1955 as Ciudad Eva Perón (2,5)

City of southern Brazil southwest of São Paulo, capital of the state of Paraná (8)

and Character played by Gary Lockwood in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey (5,5)

Thai name for Bangkok, translating as ‘city of angels’ (5,4)

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Officer of the English peerage who presides over the College of Arms (4,7)

Alpine state of western Austria whose capital is Innsbruck (5)

2017 animated film featuring the voices of Anthony Gonzalez and Benjamin Bratt (4)

Association of two organisms living in close physical association, typically mutually beneficial (9)

Giant cactus of Mexico and the SW United States with white flowers and edible red fruit; Carnegiea gigantea (7)

Major division in taxonomic classification ranking above a class and below a kingdom (6)

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Largest of the United Arab Emirates, lying between Oman and the Gulf coast (3,5)

Greek goddess of agriculture and corn, identified with the Roman Ceres (7)

Member of a Nahuatl people dominant in central Mexico before the arrival of the Aztecs (6)

Greek mythology Son of the king of Iolcos in Thessaly who led the Argonauts in quest of the Golden Fleece (5)

Main currency unit of modern Israel, divided into 100 agorot (6)

Rich yellow sauce with which an eggs Benedict is made (11) See Boris ___, Russian author who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 (9)

Dark glass-like volcanic rock formed by the rapid cooling of lava (8)

Andrew ___ (1621-78), English metaphysical poet whose works include To His Coy Mistress (7)

Name give to various predatory marine birds, especially the skua (7)

Norman ___, US author of novels including The Naked And The Dead (1948) and The Executioner’s Song (1979) (6)

Woman’s close-fitting garment covering the arms, shoulders and top of the back (5)

Light beige or fawn colour of unbleached linen; from French (4)

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