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1 Chief official of the Royal Household, formerly responsible for the licensing of plays (4,11) 10 Large late-stage star of high luminosity exhausted of hydrogen, e.g. Aldebaran or Arcturus (3,5) 11 Surgical instrument used for cutting or dividing bone, typically resembling a chisel (9) 12 Titular antagonist of 1991’s The Mummy and its 2001 sequel, played by Arnold Vosloo (7) 13 See 27 15 Lowest adult male singing voice, usually having a range from the second E below middle C to the E above it (4) 16 Energy arising from the random motion of molecules, transmissible by conduction, convection or radiation (4) 17 Medical image produced by recording the reflections of high-frequency sound waves directed at body tissues (8) 18 Genus of New World monkeys to which the capuchin belongs (5) 20 Derived SI unit of magnetic flux density, equal to one weber per square metre (5) 22 Jewish pancake made with grated potato, traditionally served on Hanukkah (5) 25 Brightest object in the night sky after the moon, also known as Hesperus (5) 27 and 13 Oscar-winning director of the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs (8,5) 28 Town in the Piedmont region of NW Italy that gives its name to a sparkling white wine (4) 30 In golf, the degree of angle at which a clubhead is set, giving elevation to a ball (4) 32 Earliest capital of Assyria, on the west bank of the Tigris river in modern-day Iraq (5) 33 Oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism, composed in Sanskrit from around 1500 BC (3-4) 35 Konstantin ___, Soviet statesman; General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 1984–5 (9) 36 Lighter-than-air craft such as a balloon or dirigible that derives its lift from buoyancy rather than motive power (8) 37 US actress who starred opposite Tom Cruise in 1983’s Risky Business (7,2,6)
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2 State nickname of Virginia, derived from its status as Britain’s first American colony (3,8) 3 Best Picture winner at the 2006 Academy Awards, directed by Paul Haggis (5) 4 Administrative region of E central Greece in which Athens is located (6) 5 2020 superhero film starring Vin Diesel and Eiza González (9) 6 Greek white or rosé wine flavoured with pine resin, traditionally from Aleppo pine trees (7) 7 Of an anther, inward-turning so as to release pollen towards the centre of a flower (8) 8 Region of NE France formed in 2016 from the former regions of Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine (5,3) 9 City and capital of ancient Egypt, sacred to the worship of Ptah (7) 14 Friedrich ___, German philosopher who collaborated with Karl Marx on the Communist Manifesto (1848) (6) 15 ‘No ___ so fierce but knows some touch of pity’ (Shakespeare Richard III (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 71) (5) 18 Second-largest country in the world by total area, covering approximately 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles) (6) 19 In Mahayana Buddhism, someone worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help others achieve enlightenment (11) 21 Young salmon at the stage after parr, when it becomes silvery and migrates from fresh water to the sea (5) 23 19th-century French novelist and critic who wrote the open letter J’accuse during the Dreyfus Affair (5,4) 24 See 34 25 Contagious wart on the sole of a foot (plantar) caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) (7) 26 ‘[T]hought, which is the measure of the ___’ (Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound (1820) act 2, sc. 4, l. 72) (8) 29 Relating to or containing tin, especially in its tetravalent state (7) 31 Front of a building, especially a large one facing a street (6) 34 and 24 Italian-born US motor-racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1978 (5,8)