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1 A subsection of a piece of writing (9)
6 An assumed identity or character (7)
10 A military manoeuvre or simulated combat operation carried out for training and evaluation (8) 11 American sportsman who played baseball for the New York Yankees in the 1920s and 1930s (3,6)
12 An attitude of deference or homage (9)
13 _ Graziano, American boxer who was the middleweight world boxing champion (5) 15 A sharp pointed stick for urging on cattle, etc (4) 16 An imaginary type of evil goblin, especially in the fiction of JRR Tolkien (3) 17 British Roman road between Lincoln and Exeter (5,3) 18 Room in a church for storing ceremonial clothes, etc (6)
21 See 15 Down
23 Name given to June 6, 1944, the date on which the Allied invasion of Europe began during World War Two (1-3) 25 A main road built to avoid a city or congested area (6) 27 A person who provides intelligence about someone, especially a criminal (8)
28 In astrology, the fifth sign of the zodiac (3)
29 An insect at the immobile stage of development between larva and adult (4) 31 Opera in three acts by Puccini, first performed in 1900 (5)
32 A person who is unscrupulously ambitious (9) 34 A person who uses flattery to win favour from those in power (9)
35 A mountainous region of southern Italy (8)
36 Island in western Indonesia home to two species of orangutan (7)
37 People who hide aboard a vehicle, ship or aircraft in order to gain free passage (9)
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2 International yachting trophy, first awarded in 1851 (8,3) 3 Dirt, soot or filth, especially when thickly accumulated or ingrained (5)
4 An ancient city in northwest Syria (6)
5 1969 musical film directed by Gene Kelly and starring Barbra Streisand (5,5) 6 Francis _, French composer and member of the group Les Six (7)
7 A Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes (8)
8 An island and county of north Wales, separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait (8)
9 The largest of the Canary Islands (8)
14 Profits or returns, as from investments or taxes (6) 15 and 21 Across. The winning of all major competitions in a season, especially in tennis and golf (5,4)
19 A product or service sold to a foreign country (6) 20 English writer whose novels included Far From The Madding Crowd (1874) and Tess Of The D’urbervilles (1891) (6,5)
21 A garment worn for skiing, consisting of quilted trousers reaching to the chest and held up by shoulder straps (10) 22 A large ray with wide winglike pectoral fins; feeds on plankton (5)
24 A thoroughfare in New York City famous for its theatres (8) 25 Brazilian palm trees with hard edible nuts yielding an oil used in making soap, margarine, etc (8) 26 Gnaeus Julius _, Roman general and governor of Britannia, subject of a biography by Tacitus (8) 28 The chief opera house in Italy; in Milan (2,5)
30 A South American cape (6) 33 The chief river of Ghana, which flows south to the Bight of Benin (5)