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Southernmost region of South America, lying mostly in Argentina between the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean (9)
Fictional elephant created by French children’s author Jean de Brunhoff in 1931 (5)
10 Instrumental third track on the 1973 Pink Floyd
album The Dark Side of the Moon (2,3,3)
11 Jean ___, French author of works including Les Enfants terribles (novel, 1929) and La Machine infernale (play, 1934) (7)
12 Large constellation on the celestial equator between Hercules and Scorpius; the Serpent Bearer (9)
13 ‘[I]t is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’ (Shakespeare Macbeth (1606) (5)
Accompanied solo song in an opera, cantata or oratorio, such as Puccini’s ‘Nessun Dorma’ (Turandot, 1926) (4)
16 Roman emperor who succeeded his stepfather and father-in-law Augustus in
14 AD (8)
17 Dagger or short sword carried by Khalsa Sikhs as one of the Five Ks, typically sheathed on a strap or belt (6)
20 Fretless Arabian musical instrument resembling the lute, having 11 strings and a pear-shaped body (3)
22 Venomous snake said to have killed Cleopatra in 30 BC; Naja haje, also called the Egyptian cobra (3)
25 Male or female relative descended only through male members of a family (6)
Port city of SE Spain known to the ancient Romans as Lucentum (‘City of Light’) (8) Personification of death in Roman mythology, counterpart of the Greek Thanatos (4)
30 Capital and largest city of Cape Verde, on the
south shore of São Tiago (Santiago) island (5)
31 Small tropical tree of the family Oxalidaceae
whose edible fruit is also called star fruit (9)
34 2015 comedy film starring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey (7)
In pre-Reformation times, a person licensed to sell papal indulgences (8)
36 Gambling game using two dice in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3 or 12 loses (5)
Straight line that continually approaches a curve without ever meeting it (9)
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1937 romantic drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, remade in 1954, 1976 and 2018 (1,4,2,4)
Stage surname of Swedish actress Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (1905-90), believed to have been chosen by director Mauritz Stiller (5)
President of Ghana re-elected for a second term on 7 December 2020 (4,5-4)
6 Alternative name for the Greek god Dionysus,
used especially by the Romans (7)
7 Ancient region of E central Greece separated from Boeotia by the Cithaeron mountains; chief city, Athens (6)
State capital of Roraima in NW Brazil, on the west bank of the Rio Branco (3,5) Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, and patron saint of English goldsmiths and silversmiths (7)
Speckled brown European flatfish of the family Scophthalmidae prized as food; Scophthalmus maximus (6)
Genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the mint family (Lamiaceae) to which bugle belongs (5)
Any of the mostly edible mushrooms of the genus Coprinus, especially C. comatus, sometimes known as lawyer’s wig (3-3)
19 Royal dynasty that ruled England from the ascent of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485 (11)
21 Small Greek island of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea; legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis (5)
Of pasta dishes, garnished with lightly cooked spring vegetables such as peas, asparagus and broccoli (9)
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Alternative name for the herbaceous Eurasian plant costmary, classified as Tanacetum balsamita (7)
Chief city of Minoan (Bronze Age) Crete, first excavated in modern times by British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans from 1900 (7)
English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,2,2,4) Thick sweet liquid produced by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit (5)
Third-longest and fastest-flowing river in Scotland (4)