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Davy _, 19th-century American folk hero and frontiersman (8)

Trojan hero in Greco-Roman mythology, the son of Aphrodite (6) Clarified butter used in South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisines (4) _ Cipriani, inset, rugby union fly-half and fullback (5)

One half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy (4)

Leslie _, lyricist who co-wrote musicals including Stop The World – I Want To Get Off (8) South American camelid similar to the llama (6) _ Scholes, former Manchester United and England footballer (4) Western Asian country whose capital city is Damascus (5) The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (4) US island state whose capital and largest city is Honolulu (6) The capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States (8) Edith _, late French singer (4) _ Radcliffe, British long-distance runner (5)

Major European river which rises in the Czech Republic and flows through Germany (4)

Karen _, Danish author who wrote the 1937 memoir Out Of Africa (6)

_ Steel, US novelist (8)

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British leader said to have led the defence against the Saxons (6) Unit of land measurement equivalent to 1/640 of a square mile (4)

Sam _, British filmmaker who directed American Beauty and Skyfall (6) _ College, Berkshire independent boarding school (4)

South American mammal which is the world’s largest living rodent (8)

_ Fools And Horses, TV sitcom set in Peckham (4)

7 Area of wooden panelling on the lower walls of a room (8)

14 Mea _, Latin phrase meaning “through my fault” (5)

15 Trial and _, means of problem solving (5)

17 Transparent optical element, especially triangular, which refracts light (5)

19 US city which is the largest city in the Texas panhandle (8)

20 The _ News, 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx (8)

Alice In _, Seattle rock band whose members include Jerry Cantrell (6) Interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionised gases (6) _ Brown, 1974 film starring

Pam Grier (4)

The official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan (4)

The largest and heaviest of the three swords used in the sport of fencing (4)