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1 Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (7)

6 US state whose capital is Boise (5)

9 _ Khan, former cricketer and the current Prime Minister of Pakistan (5)

10 The manager of France’s national football team, Didier _ (9)

11 International auxilliary language created by L L Zamenhof in 1887 (9)

12 A double whole note in music (5)

13 String instrument used in Greek classical antiquity and beyond (4)

15 _ Springs, city and holiday destination in New York (8)

17 1980 film starring John Hurt as Joseph Merrick,

The _ Man (8)

18 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film based on the Patrick Hamilton play of the same name (4)

The Fall Of The House Of _,

1839 short story by Edgar

Allan Poe (5)

24 Korean martial art characterised by the extensive use of kicks (9)

26 TV sitcom of the 1960s and 70s starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens (9)

27 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde,

An _ Husband (5)

28 Young _, early 20th-century political reform movement in the Ottoman Empire (5)

29 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, The _ Falcon (7) 22

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Natalie _, the first England cricketer to take a hat-trick in a Women’s Twenty20 International match (6)

2 The partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body (7)

3 Autonomous region of China whose capital is Hohhot, _ Mongolia (5)

4 Southeast Asian country whose capital city is Jakarta (9)

5 Rope with a noose at one end, used for catching cattle (5)

6 Substance that slows or interferes with a chemical reaction (9)

7 _ Mann, US singer who composed the soundtrack to the 1999 film Magnolia (5)

8 Salt-water bivalve mollusc (6)

14 Western Asian river that flows through Turkey, Iraq and Syria (9)

16 The second largest city in the Netherlands (9)

19 Inflammation of the eye also known as conjunctivitis (4,3)

20 Large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae (6)

21 British para-athlete who won a gold medal in javelin at the 2016 Olympics, _ Arnold (6)

23 Miner who loosens rock and minerals in a mine (5)

24 Lake _, large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States (5)

25 20th-century German composer who wrote the music to The Threepenny Opera, Kurt _ (5) 1