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1 2004 Africa-set drama film starring Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo (5,6) 6 Japanese salute or battle cry literally meaning ‘(may you live for) ten thousand years’ (6) 9 Brownish-grey freshwater duck related to the wigeon; Anas strepera (7) 10 State capital of Nevada, in the east near Reno and Lake Tahoe (6,4) 11 Organism living in close association with another of a different kind (8) 12 Thomas ___, English dramatist; TheOrphan (1680), Venice Preserved (1682) etc. (5) 13 Small constellation of the southern hemisphere south of Piscis Austrinus; the Crane (4) 16 Native American people whose noted leaders include Cochise (c1810-1874) and Geronimo (1829–1909) (6) 19 and 2 down Fictitious killer barber in the 1847 George Dibdin Pitt play A String of Pearls (7,4) 21 Resort town of SE Florida on an island between Lake Worth and the Atlantic Ocean (4,5) 22 ‘To sleep: ___ to dream’ (Shakespeare Hamlet (1601) (9) 23 E(dward) M(organ) ___, English author of novels including Howard’s End (1910) and A Passage To India (1924) (7) 24 Province of north central China to the south of Inner Mongolia; capital, Taiyuan (6) 25 Lower house of the Russian parliament, established by Boris Yeltsin in 1993 (4) 26 Character nickname of Anthony Edwards’ Nick Bradshaw in the 1986 film Top Gun (5) 27 Vertical height of an object or point above ground or sea level (8) 32 2019 black comedy horror film starring Samara Weaving and Adam Brody (5,2,3) 33 Pause or natural breathing space in a line of verse, typically near the middle (7) 34 Program or work station used to retrieve and process data from a server (6) 35 Radioactive metallic element produced artificially by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles
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1 Biography of a saint or saints; from Greek, ‘holy writing’ (11) 2 See 19 Across 3 Switch that opens and closes circuits electro-mechanically or electronically (5) 4 Of a salad, made with tomatoes, black olives, anchovies, hard-boiled eggs etc. (7) 5 Part of a boxing ring that lies outside the ropes (5) 6 1986-95 ITV drama series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker and Neil Morrissey (4) 7 B complex vitamin occurring in liver, chicken breast and tuna; also called niacin (9,4) 8 Statistician employed to calculate insurance risks and premiums (7) 14 British-Indian author of novels including 2019’s Quichotte (6,7) 15 Large circular bass tuba that coils over a player’s shoulder, often used in marching bands (7) 17 Any salt or ester of acetic acid, typically taking the form of polymers (7) 18 Eldest son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, slain by Achilles (6) 19 Fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, transliterated as s (6) 20 Aviation branch of the Royal Navy, formerly (1924-39) a division of the RAF (5,3,3) 23 Eighth month of the French revolutionary calendar, named from the Latin for ‘flower’ (7) 24 The ‘King of English Cheeses,’ produced in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottingham (7) 28 Herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae to which flax belongs (5) 29 Weighted hook and line used for dragging below the surface of the water (5) 30 Imperial unit of length defined since 1959 as exactly 0.3048 metres(4) 31 Small round piece of unleavened Indian bread that is deep-fried and served hot (4)