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1970 Western film starring Richard Harris and Judith Anderson (1,3,6,5)
Smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter, discovered by the space probe Voyager 2 in 1979 (8)
City in southern France, named European Capital of Culture in 2013 (9)
Eugene ___, Romanian-born French dramatist whose works include The Bald Prima Donna and Rhinoceros (7)
Aegean island of the Greek Cyclades group on which the Venus de Milo statue was found in 1820 (5)
Watercourse in Arabic-speaking parts of N Africa and S Asia that remains dry except in the rainy season (4)
Second song on the 1977 Pink Floyd album Animals (4)
Charles ___, Oscar-winning star of the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII (8)
Long-legged, long-necked freshwater wading bird of the family Ardeidae; Ardea or related genera (5)
Son of Mufasa and Sarabi in the 1994 animated film The Lion King (5)
Apparatus for receiving and retransmitting radio signals to extend their range (5)
Orange and brown European butterfly of the family Nymphalidae; Polygonia c-album (5)
Influential work written by the astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD; from Greek, ‘greatest treatise’ (8)
Imperial dynasty that ruled China
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from 618–907, regarded as the golden age of Chinese poetry and art (4)
Elective legislative assembly of Russia established by tsar Nicholas II in 1905 and overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917 (4)
Racecourse of southern England founded by Queen Anne in 1711 (5)
London borough whose landmarks include Waterloo Station and The Oval cricket ground (7)
Presenter of BBC Radio 2’s Blues Show from 1986 to 2018 (4,5)
Extinct Eurasian deer of the Pleistocene epoch classified as Megaloceros giganteus (5,3)
US author of hard-boiled detective novels including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man (8,7)
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Sea under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others (4,7)
Constellation on the celestial equator near Pisces and Aquarius (5)
Capital of Angola, founded by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais in 1576 (6)
Euphemistic name for the Furies in Greek mythology, meaning ‘the kindly ones’ (9)
Warren G. ___, Republican US president who succeeded Woodrow Wilson in 1921 (7)
Director of the 2018 American biographical drama film BlacKkKlansman (5,3)
Street in London’s West End named after a croquet-like game popular in the 16th and 17th centuries (4,4)
Nomadic Arab inhabiting the desert
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regions of Arabia and N Africa, typically tent-dwelling (7)
2005 action-comedy adventure film starring Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz (6)
Radial arrangement of three or more leaves, petals etc. around a stem (5)
‘Video of the Year’ at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, performed by Camila Cabello (6)
Pseudonym of the Irish-born British writer Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield (1892-1983) (7,4)
Island country in the Mediterranean Sea south of Italy and north of Libya (5)
Giant ash tree in Norse mythology whose roots extend into Niflheim (the land of mist), Jotunheim (land of the giants) and Asgard (land of the gods) (9)
Subunit of Bulgarian currency worth one hundredth of a lev (8)
Mutant hero played by Tye Sheridan in the films X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018) (7)
Coastal resort on Spain’s Costa del Sol between Malaga and Gibraltar (8)
Administrative region of south central Ghana whose capital is Kumasi (7)
2005 Steven Spielberg film starring Eric Bana and Daniel Craig (6)
German brothers (Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Karl) who compiled an anthology of fairy tales between 1812 and 1822 (5)
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