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Retired Brazilian footballer, born in

1982, once considered a world-class striker (7)

Rutherford B. _, the 19th President of the US, from 1877 to 1881 (5)

The entrails and internal organs of an animal, often used as food (5) Large tropical or sub-tropical ray-finned fish, known for its ferocity (9) Jeffrey _, US author who wrote the

1993 novel The Virgin Suicides (9) The hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger (5)

The Ancient Greek goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth (4)

Tommy _, England and St Helens Rugby League fullback and wing (8)

It _ One Night, 1934 film comedy starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (8) Type of competitive full-contact wrestling originating in Japan (4) Berkshire racecourse (5) Flowering plant native to South Africa, often given as a Christmas gift (9) Self-governing Palestinian territory on the east Mediterranean coast (4,5) Song that was a UK Top Ten hit for the American rock band Heart in 1987 (5) The track or scent of an animal, often traceable by footprints etc. (5)

My Old Man’s A _, song that was a

1960 hit for Lonnie Donegan (7)

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Long-legged wading bird in the same avian family as the stilt (6) Person who has been forced to flee their country to escape war, persecution etc. (7)

Woody _, US filmmaker who has directed films including Annie Hall (5) Official appointed to investigate individuals’ complaints against companies (9)

_ Karloff, late actor famed for his roles in horror films (5)

6 Song that was a 2007 comeback hit for girl band the Spice Girls (9)

7 The _ And The Restless, US soap opera which has aired since

1973 (5)

8 _ Eyed, song that was a

No4 hit for Ellie Goulding in

2010 (6)

14 Dish served before a meal, also known as hors d’oeuvres (9)

16 1886 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (9)

19 _ in the Middle, US TV show which starred Frankie Muniz (7) Trans-boundary river which flows through India and Bangladesh (6) Behind or towards the rear of a ship or aircraft (6)

City in south-eastern Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire (5) Buenos _, the capital and largest city of Argentina (5)

W B _, Irish poet and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature (5)