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State capital of Louisiana, in the SE on the Mississippi River (5,5)
Taxonomic group ranking below a genus; from Latin, ‘appearance’ (7)
Field near Jerusalem bought with the 30 pieces of silver Judas received for betraying Jesus (Matthew 27:8; Acts 1:19) (8)
Monetary unit of Poland worth one hundredth of a zloty (5)
‘Men are ___ when they woo, December when they wed’ (Shakespeare As You Like It, 1599 (5)
City that replaced Samarkand as capital of Uzbekistan in 1930 (8)
John ___, first general manager (1922–7) and first director general (1927–38) of the BBC (5)
Landlocked country of SE Europe formed from part of Romania in 1940 (7)
Motorway in a German-speaking country; literally, ‘car road’ (8)
1968 Bee Gees hit covered by the Irish group Boyzone in 1996 (5)
Part of the human body described by the adjectives thenar and volar (4) See and Third-brightest star in the sky, in the constellation Centaurus (5,8)
Oxford University college founded by Henry VI of England and Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele in 1438 (3,5)
US comedy-drama series (2016-)
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starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church (7)
E(lwyn) B(rooks) ___, US author of children’s books including Stuart Little (1945) Charlotte’s Web (1952) (5)
Shipping forecast area lying north of Lundy and south-east of Malin (5,3) See and Character played by Stephanie Cole in the 1990-4 BBC sitcom Waiting for God (5,5)
Colourless flammable gas of the alkane series obtained from petroleum and natural gas and given off by ripening fruit (8)
1977 adventure film starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte (3,4)
Wide tubes of pasta stuffed with a meat or vegetable mixture; from Italian, ‘large reeds’ (10)
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Character played by Jamie Bell in the 2015 superhero film Fantastic Four (3,5)
CGS unit of magnetic field strength, equivalent to 79.58 amperes per metre (7)
Animal genus of the family Cricetidae to which the muskrat belongs (7)
and Golfer who won the 2018 Women’s British Open (7,4)
Lift in which a weight is raised to shoulder height and then gradually pushed above the head (5)
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Titular protagonist of the 1881 Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (6,6)
Heavy Chinese silk fabric with a rough surface, often used for bridal gowns (8)
Wine bottle equal in capacity to 16 ordinary bottles (12 litres) (9)
US singer-songwriter whose hits include ‘Truly’ (1982) and ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ (1986) (6,6)
Hindu god known as the preserver, forming the Trimurti with Brahma the creator and Shiva the destroyer (6)
Rich dark variety of soy sauce chiefly produced in the Chubu region of central Japan (6)
Second-largest lake in the Lake District, on the border between the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (9)
Document listing a ship’s cargo, passengers, destination etc. for customs purposes (8) See Order of herbivorous aquatic mammals that includes the manatees and dugong (7)
Soluble gummy substance produced during the conversion of starch to maltose, used as a thickening agent in food and in adhesives (7)
Book containing the forms of services for the ordination of priests, consecration of bishops etc. in Anglicanism (7)
Military blockade of a fortress, city etc. to force surrender (5)
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