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Large Australian bird, Cygnus atratus, with a red bill (5,4)

8 Mary Baker, founder of the Christian Science movement (4)

9 and 22 Dn. Detective creation of Colin Dexter (9,5)

10 Olympic ice hockey

champions 1920-32 (6)

11 See 16.

14 German Junkers-87 dive bomber first tried out in the Spanish Civil War (5)

15 --- de France, bicycle race

first held in 1903 (4)

16 and 11 Ac. 1972 and 1976 Olympic 5,000m champion (5,5)

18 Scottish island S.E. of

Rhum (4)

20 International secret organisation founded in Sicily (5)

21 Board game which takes its name from the Greek word for leap (5)

24 Volcanic island in Indonesia whose chief town is Ende (6)

25 “Madame ---”, opera by

Puccini (9)

26 “The ---”, 1970 novel by

Jackie Collins (4)

27 Small variety of vegetable marrow also called a zucchini (9)

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Earl of ---, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England who features in Walter Scott’s novel Kenilworth (9)

2 Capital of Scotland (9)

4 Miss Horne, singer/actress known for the song Stormy Weather (4)

5 Tourist island in the Bay of

Naples (5)

6 “The --- Agent”, novel by

Joseph Conrad (6)

7 Prophet of the 8c B.C. whose writings form one book of the Old Testament (4)

9 Name given to a hypothetical gas in which atoms do not interact with each other (5)

11 The Roman goddess of the

hearth and its fire (5)

12 1922 vampire film by Murnau

starring Max Schreck (9)

13 Nautical term for the entire side of a vessel from stem to stern and from waterline to rail (9)

17 Member of the Bront´ family who authored Wuthering Heights (5)

19 The --- snake is a nonvenomous North American creature of the genus Thamnophis (6)

22 See 9 Ac.

23 National style of wrestling of

Japan (4)

24 In the theatre, a rectangular wooden frame covered with painted canvas used as part of a set (4)