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Johannes _, Dutch artist who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (7)

_ Joe Saunders, British boxer who holds WBO middleweight title (5) Flowering plant in the legume family whose yellow bean is cultivated (5) Star constellation in the northern sky, also known as the Little Bear (4,5) US actress whose films include Ghost Rider (3,6)

Jessica _, US actress who won a Best Actress Oscar for Blue Sky (5) Musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes (4) Small parrot named for its monogamous pair bonding (8) Yorkshire-based TV period medical drama (3,5) Large deer species also known as wapiti (4) The Taming of the _, Shakespeare play featuring

Kate and Bianca (5)

South American country whose capital city is Caracas (9)

Andrea _, the son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover (9)

_ Wilde, late Irish author who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray (5) _ Winfrey, US media proprietor best known for her TV talk show which ended in 2011 (5)

Mount _, the highest mountain in Greece (7)

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The _ Underground, US rock band whose frontman was the late Lou Reed (6)

Italian painter of the High Renaissance period, whose works include The School of Athens (7) _ Wise, inset, late British comedian, comedy partner of Eric Morecambe (5) Type of poem or song with a refrain repeated at regular intervals (9) Gabriel _, Brazilian footballer who plays for Manchester City (5)

6 Social insect and the only extant group in the tribe Bombini (9)

7 Russian communist revolutionary, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870 (5)

8 Native New _, 1977 song which was a Top 5 hit for the band Odyssey (6)

14 The fifth-largest city in the US state of Texas (4,5)

16 _ Rossi, Italian motorcycle road racer and nine-time Grand Prix World Champion (9) Largest sesamoid bone in the human body, also known as the patella (7)

1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (6)

I Am the _, Beatles song which was a

1967 number one hit (6)

Stair _, vertical elements in stairs (5) _ Mortensen, actor who was Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings films (5) Franny and _, 1961 book by J. D. Salinger (5)