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Branch of linguistics that studies the origins and development of words (9)
US singer who duetted with Justin Timberlake on 2009’s ‘Love Sex Magic’ (5)
Precious violet or purple variety of quartz believed by the ancient Greeks to prevent drunkenness (8)
Legislative programme of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt designed to foster social and economic recovery following the Great Depression (3,4)
Second compartment of a ruminant mammal’s stomach, situated between the rumen and omasum (9)
City in northern Italy that gives its name to a cured uncooked ham (5)
Small piece of absorbent material used to clean wounds, apply medication, collect specimens etc. (4)
City that succeeded Mafeking as the capital of Botswana in the 1960s (8)
State capital of New York, on the Hudson River about 150 miles (240 km) north of New York City (6)
‘O then, I see, Queen ___ hath been with you...’ (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (3)
Old English runic letter representing the digraph ae, pronounced like the a in bat (3)
State of northern Nigeria known as North-Central State until 1976 (6)
System of unarmed fighting developed initially by the Haganah Jewish defence forces in Palestine in
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the 1940s; Hebrew, ‘contact combat’ (4,4)
Large Eurasian bird of the crow family that nests in colonies in treetops; Corvus frugilegus (4)
Plant genus of the family Apiaceae to which celery belongs (5)
2018 animated film featuring the voices of Channing Tatum, James Corden and Zendaya (9)
US rock band who had a hit with ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ in 1991 (7)
State of the south central US separated from Texas by the Red River (8)
Character voiced by Bill Murray in the 2016 live-action/CGI film The Jungle Book (5)
Style of jazz developed in New Orleans in the early 1900s, characterised by a fast two-beat rhythm and collective improvisation (9)
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English name of the 1910 ballet score L’Oiseau de feu by Igor Stravinsky (3,8) Genus of tropical grasses of the family Poaceae that includes rice (5) First name of Richard Gibson’s Herr Flick in the 1982-92 BBC sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo (4) Soft malleable silvery-white metallic element of the lanthanide series obtained from the mineral monazite; atomic no. 70 (9) Elias ___, Bulgarian-born author of novels including Auto-da-Fé and
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Crowds and Power; Nobel Prize for Literature (1981) (7)
Outer of the two bones of the human forearm (6)
Territorial capital of American Samoa, on Tutuila Island (4,4)
Maintenance paid to a spouse after separation or divorce; from Latin, to nourish (7)
and Brazilian motor-racing driver who won the Formula One world championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991 (6,5)
Republic of NE Europe on the Baltic Sea between Estonia and Lithuania (6)
2018 musical film starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (1,4,2,4)
Ehud ___, Israeli Labour statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1999–2001 (5)
Central part of a tree trunk, mechanically strong and resistant to decay; the duramen (9)
White marble mausoleum in Agra, N India, built by the emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife (3,5)
Hindu deity worshipped as the eighth avatar of the god Vishnu; from Sanskrit, ‘black’ (7)
Tropical evergreen tree of the laurel family (Persea americana) cultivated for its pulpy leatheryskinned fruit (7)
and US actress in the 2018 films A Vigilante and Life Itself (6,5)
Cooked mixture of equal amounts of fat and flour used to thicken sauces (4)
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