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Squash cultivar often used as a Halloween decoration (7)

John _, 15th Century Venetian navigator (5)

Juan Martin del _, Argentine tennis player also known as Delpo (5)

City which is home to the UK’s second-oldest university (9) Three-dimensional geometric figure resembling a flattened sphere (9) A deep void or chasm which is seemingly bottomless (5) Johann Sebastian _, composer of the Baroque period (4)

Gordon _, manager of the Scotland national football team (8)

1985 action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Col. John Matrix (8) _ Preminger, late director of films including Anatomy of a Murder (4) The criminal act of deliberately setting fire to a property (5) Chess position in which the king cannot move and the opponent wins (9) Marine mammal, the largest mammal ever known to have existed (4,5) Christopher _, late US actor who played Superman in four films (5) Tin Pan _, genre of popular music which began in the United States in the

19th Century (5)

North African country bordered by Libya and Algeria (7)

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_ Potts, comic book character portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow on the silver screen (6)

1988 Roald Dahl novel about a girl with extraordinary abilities (7)

Jurgen _, German former footballer who is manager of Liverpool F.C. (5) Jack _, US actor whose films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (9) Miss Congeniality 2: _ and Fabulous,

2005 Sandra Bullock film sequel (5) Appetiser dish of thinly sliced or pounded raw meat or fish (9)

7 Men Behaving _, British sitcom written by Simon Nye (5)

8 Large bloodsucking African fly which transmits sleeping sickness (6)

14 Ernest _, 20th Century US novelist whose works include A Farewell to Arms (9)

16 Theodore _, statesman who was the 26th President of the United States (9)

19 Gulliver’s _, 1726 novel by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift (7)

20 Rocky _, boxer played by Sylvester Stallone in all seven Rocky films (6)

21 _ Williams, US tennis player and eight-time World No.1 (6)

23 _ and crossbones, hazard symbol often used on poisonous substances (5)

24 _ Reaction, 1985 Diana Ross song which was written by the Bee Gees (5)

25 Donna _, American fashion designer famed for the DKNY clothing label (5)