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Earliest epoch of the Tertiary period, occurring between 66 and 56 million years ago (10)

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

Director of the 2018 mystery thriller film A Simple Favor (4,4)

Third section of the small intestine, between the jejunum and the caecum (5)

Italian island at the entrance of the Bay of Naples; part of the Campania region (5)

Former Spanish gold coin originally worth twice the value of a pistole (8)

Department in the Grand Est region of NE France; capital, Bar-le-Duc (5)

Nocturnal lizard-like reptile of New Zealand (Sphenodon punctatus) whose name means ‘back ridge’ in Maori (7)

Norman ___ (1894-1978), US painter and illustrator whose works include the Four Freedoms series (1943) (8)

Rich man who scorned the beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31) (5)

Principal currency unit of Turkey, subdivided into 100 kurus (4)

National airline of Israel, founded in 1948; Hebrew. “To the Skies” (2,2)

Deepest loch in Scotland, and the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles (5)

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Height of a triangle or other geometric figure measured from the vertex to the base (8)

Large arm of the S Pacific indenting the coast of Antarctica between Victoria Land and the Edward VII Peninsula (4,3)

Membranous flap in a hollow organ or vessel that automatically closes to prevent the reverse flow of fluid (5)

Technical name for the collarbone; from Latin, ‘little key’ (8)

1998 action film starring Robert De Niro and Jean Reno (5)

Minute, typically single-celled, reproductive body produced by bacteria, fungi, algae etc. (5)

Island in the West Indies 11km (6.8 miles) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela (8)

(To be performed) at a brisk and lively tempo (7)

Heavy powerful Scottish carthorse, typically brown, often with white lower legs (10)

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Outer part of a flower, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and corolla (petals) (8) Part of a sentence that enlarges the subject or predicate (7) Genus of tropical Asian plants in the family Zingiberaceae that includes zedoary and turmeric (7) V. S. ___, 36 across-born British writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 (7)

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State of SE Nigeria created in 1991 from part of the former Anambra state (5)

1966 Graham Greene novel set in Haiti during the François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier regime (3,9)

First name of Jeeves in the Jeeves and Wooster stories of P. G. Wodehouse (8)

Thin outermost layer of the skin, comprising several epithelial layers (9)

Last of Roger Moore’s seven James Bond films, released in 1985 (1,4,2,1,4)

Capital and largest city of Dominica, formerly called Charlotte Town (6)

Rhyming word game whose name comes from the Latin for ‘cabbage’ (6)

Island country in the central Atlantic off the coast of Senegal; an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975 (4,5)

Former official name of the Indian city Kolkata, still widely used (8)

State of SE Mexico on the western part of the Yucatán peninsula (8)

Soft woven fabric with a slight nap on one side, typically made of wool or cotton (7)

Traditional name for a fox, as used in medieval tales and fables (7)

Alan ___, US astronaut who became the first American to travel into space in 1961 (7)

Any Old World coniferous tree of the genus that includes deodar (5)

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