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Digestive tract (10,5)

Garden butt contents (9)

Por tuguese Cape of Good Hope explorer (5,2,4)

Family in Till Death Us Do Par t (7) Doctor in A Passage to India (4) Scottish bacteriologist of the early 20th centur y (3,9,7) Trademark lock (5)

Best loved (9)

Czech composer (7)

Of a Christian Church emphasising the Holy Spirit (11)

Shor test book in the Old Testament (7)

___ Kelly, Chicago character (5) Surname of Belgian tennis player won seven Grand Slams (5) Ancient Roman December festival (10)

Having a porous structure (10) ___ Khan, cricketer turned politician (5)

Book associated with the character Bridget Jones (5)

Fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (7)

Prevent circulation of the blood supply (11)

House of Commons presiding officer (7)

Breakaway group of Austrian ar tists, founded in 1897 (9)

Dave ___, Foo Fighters frontman (5) One‑act opera by Mascagni (10,9) Forename of Oliver Hardy’s par tner (4)

Grooves (7)

Weather system with high barometric pressure at its centre (11) Mixed fruit in jelly (9) Knighted character in Sheridan’s The Rivals (7,8) who

Bulgaria’s second city (7)

1916 DW Griffith epic (11) N American wild fowl (6,5) Hermia’s beloved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (8) Traditional Welsh tea bread (4,5) Por t south‑east of Naples (7) Soft green mineral based on copper carbonate (9)

Grape variety (6)

Knitted diamond‑shaped pattern (6) Chris ___, actor who played Mr Big in Sex and the City (4) 13

Australian actor in Hulk and Troy (4,4)

Somerset town south of Bath Ancient Greek jar (7) Customer’s proof of purchase Flowers’ pollen containers (7) Surname of the screen’s first James Bond (7) Composer of Manon, Wer ther Thaïs (8)

Arm of the sea, epecially at a mouth in Scotland (5) Moorish castle near Granada (5) (7) and river 31 32 33 37 38 42 43 east jaw in who

Illinois pitch

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Butcher topped former the of

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Writer Hawthorne’s first WWII Germany army (9) Lycra‑like material (8) First name of singer and Ms Mccutcheon (7) Provider of old cinema newsreels (5)

___ Steadman, British actress (6)

Girls’ ___, 1977 Wings song Name that links actresses Bening and Crosbie (7) Japanese medicine box (4) name (9) actress (6)