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6 A set of cards with allegorical pictures used in fortune-telling (5)
7 A state of cheerfulness, sometimes based on overoptimism (8)
10 A spoken-word audio programme made available on the internet for streaming or downloading (7)
11 A block of paper for jotting (7)
12 A fortified area within a town or urban site (7)
13 Premature, before the complete period of a pregnancy (7)
14 Scarlett O’Hara’s third husband in Gone With The Wind played in the 1939 film by Clark Gable (5,6)
19 Hoofed ruminant animal whose scientific name is Cervus elaphus (3,4)
21 The last book in the Old Testament of the King James Bible (7)
23 Harry, English central defender and captain for Manchester United FC (7)
25 ____ gun, type of machine gun with a cluster of barrels first used in the U.S. Civil War (7)
26 A heavy, steel-grey, ductile metal also known as wolfram (8)
27 Joe, English dramatist whose plays include Loot and Entertaining Mr Sloane (5)
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1 An animal that kills and eats others (8)
2 Central London street on which the Savoy Hotel is located (6)
3 Medical device used to support or replace the action of breathing in a patient who is ill, injured or anaesthetised (10)
4 A short trip in a motor car (4)
5 The plug in the mouthpiece of a wind instrument such as a recorder (6)
6 Subjects or themes (6)
8 Term usually used in the U.S. for porridge (7)
9 Richard, Watership Down author (5)
13 Liverpudlian actor who followed Sylvester McCoy as the eighth Doctor (4,6)
15 ____ dress, clothing appropriate for formal social functions (7)
16 Printed or written acknowledgements of goods bought (8)
17 A game of snooker or the triangular object used in positioning the red balls at the start (5)
18 ____ English, a lingua franca combining English and another language (6)
20 A low shelter at the side of a sports pitch with seating for coaches and players (6)
22 Lex, fictional comic book villain and archenemy of Superman (6)
24 Colloquial term for food (4)
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