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1 2005 action film starring Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel (7)

7 and 11 2000 comedy-drama film starring Morgan Freeman and Renee Zellweger (5,5) 8 Chemical element symbol Hg (7) 9 Jacques —, president of the European Commission from 1985-95 (6) 11 See 7 Across 13 Mediterranean plant whose leaves are used in cooking (4) 14 and 15

1979 musical film starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange (3,4,4) 15 See 14 Across

16 Jeremy —, actor who starred in 1980s ITV series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (5) 17 1516 book by Sir Thomas More (6) 21 1997 film drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet (7) 22 Raquel —, actress who played Mrs Windham Vandermark in 2001 romcom Legally Blonde (5) 23 The —, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores (7)

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2 and 18 1958 drama film starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (3,7,4) 3 Island in San Francisco Bay that housed a federal prison until 1963 (8) 4 Gavin —, British sculptor and conceptual artist whose installations include 2004’s The Golden Thread (4) 5 John Stuart, Earl of —, PM from 1762-63 (4) 6 Capital of Norway (4)

9 and 10 1989 comedy-drama film written, directed by and featuring Spike Lee (2,3,5,5) 10 See 9 Down 12 Town in Scotland; administrative headquarters of the Council Area of Clackmannanshire (5) 13 1994 sci-fi film starring Kurt Russell and James Spader (8) 18 See 2 Down 19 Unit of length, one twelfth of a foot (4) 20 Andre —, French winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature (4)