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_ Swift, author who wrote the 1726 satire Gulliver’s Travels (8)

The county town of Devon (6) Variety of chalcedony with parallel bands of alternating colour (4)

The third-most populous city in Switzerland (5)

_ Bawden, British author whose works included 1973’s Carrie’s War (4) Amélie _, French former tennis player and two-time Grand Slam winner (8) Edmond _, English astronomer after whom a short-period comet visible from Earth is named (6) Arabic term referring to a valley – often one that is dry outside the rainy season (4) _ Lover, song that was a UK No1 for Bobby Darin in 1959 (5) I Predict A _, Top Ten hit for the Kaiser Chiefs in 2004 (4) _ McDowell, Northern Irish golfer who won the 2010 U.S. Open (6) The Ancient Greek god of wine (8) _ Lewis, retired American track and field athlete (4)

A teacher of the Torah, or religious official, in Judaism (5) Semi-hard cheese named after a town in the Netherlands (4)

The _ Woman, 70s sci-fi TV show which starred Lindsay Wagner (6) The capital city of South Australia (8)

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_ Trollope, British author whose novels include A Village Affair (6) _ cat, short-tailed domestic cat originating on the Isle of Man (4) The largest of Mars’ two moons (6) To The _ Of The Earth, trilogy of nautical novels by William Golding (4) _ Terrier, breed of small to mediumsized terrier originating in Wales (8) Jerome _, late composer who wrote songs including Ol’ Man River (4) French actor whose films include Leon and The Da Vinci Code (4,4)

14 The second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (5)

15 Type of mountain nymph from Greek mythology (5)

17 _ Sané, inset, German footballer who plays for Manchester

City (5)

19 _ Sea, body of water that separates the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula (8)

20 Marlene _, late German actress known for 1932’s Shanghai Express (8)

_ Twist, Charles Dickens’ second novel (6)

Country in East-Central Africa whose capital city is Kampala (6) Medium-sized wild cat characterised by their tufted ear tips (4)

1918 play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht (4)

The biblical valley where David fought Goliath (4)