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Edible tropical and subtropical fruit produced by plants of the genus Musa (6) German name for Germany (11) Sports stadium in central Moscow, host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup final (8)
1985 fantasy adventure film starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer (9)
Low growing Eurasian woodland plant (Primula elatior) also called paigle (5)
Samuel ___, Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (7)
Deity in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe who created the dwarves (4)
Badger-like musteline mammal of Africa and southern Asia; Mellivora capensis (5)
1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a 1939 poetry collection by T. S. Eliot (4)
Unit of length in the metric system formerly known as the millimicron (9)
Nymph in Homer’s Odyssey who kept Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years (7)
Alternative name for the metal tungsten, used in most European languages (7)
1997-2007 Sky One drama series about the fictional Harchester United Football Club (5,4)
Musical note lowered a semitone below natural pitch, often indicated by a lowercase ‘b’ (4)
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Thin white edible mushroom with a very small cap, native to Japan; a cultivar of Flammulina velutipes (5)
CGS unit of illumination equal to one lumen per square centimetre (4)
Milan ___, Czech-born French novelist whose works include The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) (7)
Young salmon in the stage after parr, when it becomes silvery and migrates to the sea (5)
Adversary of Chips in the Scottish comic The Dandy, introduced in 1967 (5,4)
Dry or semisweet white wine from the Lazio region of Italy, known to the Romans as Golden Wine (8)
1959 Les Paul guitar played by ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons since 1968 (6,5)
European city that hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics (6)
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Capital city of Belize, founded as a planned community in 1970 (8)
Province of E China crossed by the Yangtze River; capital, Hefei (5)
Sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, pronounced approximately like an ‘o’ (4)
In golf, a forceful long-distance shot played from the tee (5)
Farcical or distorted imitation of something; French, ‘disguised’ (8)
Large glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851, erected in Hyde Park (7,6)
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Capital of Tibet, in the northern Himalayas on a tributary of the Brahmaputra (5)
US electrical engineer and inventor (1856-1943) after whom the SI unit of magnetic flux density is named (6,5)
Large genus of grassy plants in the family Cyperaceae that includes the sedges (5)
Largest inlet of the Atlantic in the US coastline, bordering Maryland and Virginia (10,3)
Meat such as duck or pork that has been cooked slowly in its own fat; from French, ‘preserve’ (6)
Wild dog of North America (Canis latrans) also called brush wolf or prairie wolf (6)
1879 three-act play by Henrik Ibsen whose protagonist is Nora Helmer (1,5,5)
River in northern Italy, flowing southeast from the Alps to the Adriatic (5)
US WWE star who voiced the title character in the 2017 animated film Ferdinand (4,4)
Apostle chosen by lot to replace Judas Iscariot after the death of Jesus (Acts 1:15–26) (8)
Wat ___, a leader of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in England (5)
Nickname of the 11th century English king William II, derived from his red hair or complexion (5)
Book of the Old Testament credited to a prophet from the town of Moresheth in Judah (5)
Monetary unit of Serbia worth one hundredth of a dinar (4)
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