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Faint constellation on the celestial equator east of Orion; the Unicorn (9)

Nickname of the US film director and producer Shelton Jackson Lee (5)

Branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature or essential characteristics of being (8)

Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock (1717) (7)

Opposition to the flow of alternating current in a circuit caused by capacitance or inductance, expressed in ohms (9)

State of northern Brazil bordering Suriname and French Guiana; capital, Macapá (5)

River of NE England said to be inhabited by the hag Peg Powler (4)

Benjamin ___, Republican US president (1889-93) preceded and succeeded by the Democrat Grover Cleveland (8)

Chief port of Corsica, on the NE coast; capital of the Haute-Corse department (6)

and Cambodian communist leader born in Prek Sbauv, near Kampong Thom, in 1925 (3,3)

Gary ___, South African golfer who won the British Open in 1959, 1968 and 1974 (6)

Country of NE Africa federated with, and for 30 years at war with, Eritrea from 1952 until 1993 (8)

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and Actor in films including 2018’s Terminal and Bohemian Rhapsody (4,5)

Edible brown-skinned European flatfish of the plaice family; Microstomus kitt (5,4)

and Sri Lanka-born Canadian writer awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018 for 1992’s The English Patient (7,8)

2018 action horror film starring Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough (5)

Pre-regnal title and given name of Haile Selassie, emperor of 26 Across from 1930–74 (3,6)

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1937 memoir by Danish author Karen Blixen adapted as a film in 1985 (3,2,6)

Simultaneous sounding of notes of different pitch, usually three or more in number (5)

Jean ___, author of novels including 1966’s Wide Sargasso Sea (4)

Strong alkaline compound containing washing soda, used for cleaning or stripping paint (5,4)

Gradual blending of one area of colour into another that avoids sharp outlines; from Italian, ‘to evaporate like smoke’ (7)

Dagger or short sword carried by Sikh men, symbol of religious loyalty (6)

Lower house of the parliament of India; from Hindi, ‘people’s assembly’ (3,5)

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Largest country of Africa, on the Mediterranean coast west of Libya (7)

Department in the Occitanie region of SW France; capital, Foix (6)

Subdivision of a cavalry squadron or artillery battery about the size of a platoon (5)

Genus of bulbous flowering plants of the family Amaryllidaceae that includes onions, leeks, garlic etc. (6)

2018 science fiction action film starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes and Olivia Munn (3,8)

Metric unit of capacity equal to approximately 0.88 imperial quarts (5)

Period of three months, especially as a division of a human pregnancy (9)

Large muscle of the cheek that raises the lower jaw when chewing (8)

Influential Greek astronomer and geographer of the 2nd century AD; author of the Almagest and The Geography (7)

Largest borough of Greater London; from Anglo-Saxon, ‘glade where broom grows’ (7)

Successor of Moses who led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) (6)

Princess of Colchis who helped Jason to obtain the Golden Fleece and then married him (5)

‘Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the ___ of war’ (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599) act 3 sc. 1) (4)

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