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1 State of western India formed from Bombay in 1960 along with Gujarat; capital, Mumbai (11) 6 Oscar-winning 1981 comedy film starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud (6) 9 Second-brightest star in the night sky after Sirius, in the southern constellation of Carina (7) 10 Of an illness or symptoms, induced unintentionally by the words or treatment of a physician (10) 11 Hot green chilli pepper of the species Capsicum annuum known as a chipotle when dried and smoked (8) 12 ‘Cry, ‘___!’ and let slip the dogs of war (Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599) (5) 13 Cylindrical mass of solidified lava filling the neck of an extinct volcano (4) 16 Capital and largest city of Dominica, formerly known as called Charlotte Town (6) 19 Self-governing island territory of the Netherlands 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Venezuela; chief town, Kralendijk (7) 21 Quinone derivative present in biological cells that functions as an electron carrier during cell respiration; also called ubiquinone (8,1) 22 Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Cinematography winner at the 2021 BAFTAs (9) 23 Deficiency of red blood cells or of haemoglobin, resulting in pallor and weariness (7) 24 Former duchy and state of central Germany merged with the Prussian province of Saxony in 1945 (6) 25 Independent ruler or chieftain in Islamic countries of the Middle East; from Arabic via French, ‘commander’ (4) 26 Curve on a cylindrical or conical surface that would become a straight line if the surface was unrolled into a plane (5) 27 Sister of Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games novels by US author Suzanne Collins (8) 32 US actress in films including Jumanji (1995), The Green Mile (1999) and Toy Story 4 (2019) (6,4) 33 Junichiro ___, Japanese statesman; prime minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2001 to 2006 (7) 34 High-quality form of parchment, traditionally made from thin calfskin, on which British Acts of Parliament were written until 2017 (6) 35 French astrologer and physician noted for the 1555 prophetic work Centuries, written in rhyming quatrains (11)
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1 UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Andes of southern Peru; from Quechua, ‘old mountain’ (5,6) 2 Measure of four inches used to determine the height of a horse, typically from the ground to the highest point of the withers (4) 3 Title given to the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; from Arabic, ‘our father’ (5) 4 Capital city of Bhutan since 1962; the fifthhighest capital in the world after La Paz, Quito, Bogota and Addis Ababa (7) 5 Protein that combines with myosin to form the contractile filaments of muscle cells (5) 6 Third of the twelve minor prophetic books of the Old Testament, attributed to ‘a shepherd from the town of Tekoa’ (4) 7 Last opera by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791), with a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder (3,5,5) 8 International character-encoding system, introduced in 1991, that incorporates symbols from all of the world’s principal written languages (7) 14 Annual steeplechase won by the 8-year-old racehorse Minalla Times on 10 April 2021 (5,8) 15 State of the Midwestern US whose motto is ‘the crossroads of America’ (7) 17 2001 action thriller film starring Robert Redford, Brad Pitt and Catherine McCormack (3,4) 18 1905 fantasy adventure novel by English author H. Rider Haggard subtitled ‘the Return of She’ (6) 19 Any of the five species of ground-dwelling monkey comprising the genus Papio, found in dry regions of Africa and Arabia (6) 20 Second-largest city of the state of Iowa; birthplace of celebrities including Ashton Kutcher and Elijah Wood (5,6) 23 Colourless volatile organic solvent used in nail polish removers, paint thinners etc; the simplest of the ketones (7) 24 King of Pherae in Thessaly who married Alcestis, daughter of Pelias (7) 28 City on the Seine river in NW France in which Joan of Arc was tried and executed in 1431 (5) 29 Brush-like tuft of hairs on the hind legs of bees used for collecting pollen (5) 30 Quantity of paper comprising 500 (formerly 480) identical sheets, equal to twenty quires (4) 31 Largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the W Pacific, and the westernmost territory of the United States (4)