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10 1882 agreement between Germany, Italy and Austria‑Hungar y (6,8) 12 Simple two‑fingered piece for the piano (10) 15 Star of Mad Max: Fur y Road (3,5) 16 Author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man (8,7) 17 Personnel manning a plane (7) 19 ___ Lawson, food writer and broadcaster (7) 20 Early 60s US singer of Sweet Nothin’s and Speak to Me Pretty (6,3) 24 Holiest city in Judaism (9) 25 Treasure ___, novel by RL Stevenson (6) 26 Singer known as ‘The King’ (5) 30 Organisation of former British dependencies (12) 32 Booming‑voiced actor, Grampy Rabbit in Peppa Pig (5,7) 33 Australasian expeditionar y soldier (5) 34 Large, tusked, Arctic marine mammals (8) 35 Buzzard, owl or peregrine, for example (4,2,4) 39 Body of plays that a company performs (10) 40 Wild flower also known as convolvulus (8) 41 People from Ankara, perhaps (5) 43 Traditional county of south‑eastern Scotland (12) 46 Small horse from the Northern Isles (8,4) 47 Tottenham FC, in shor t (5) 48 President of Nicaragua (6) 50 Auld Reekie (9) 55 Popular supplement in pregnancy (5,4) 56 Small finch with a distinctive bright forehead (7) 57 Band who had a 1976 hit with Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (7) 60 Gateshead landmark created by Antony Gormley (5,2,3,5) 62 Subatomic particle with zero charge (8) 64 18th‑centur y conveyance (5,5) 65 Militar y Cluedo suspect (7,7)

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1 Type of rice traditionally used in risotto (7) 2 Large spotted oceanic fish (4) 3 US comedian and actor, par tner of Gracie Allen (6,5) 4 Dr y lake bed, from the Spanish word for ‘beach’ (5) 5 Common name for the trachea (8) 6 Shakespeare play subtitled Prince of Tyre (8) 7 Bacterium that can cause food poisoning (1,4) 8 French general and Supreme Allied Commander in WWI (4) 9 Les ___, musical based on a Victor Hugo novel (10) 11 1950s Egyptian prime minister and president (6) 13 Nina, singer of Feeling Good and I Put a Spell on You (6) 14 Welsh classical and popular mezzo‑soprano (9,7) 18 Butter‑coloured Wedgwood china (9) 21 French sculptor of The Thinker (5) 22 Famous Italian automobile marque (8) 23 Singer of Fashion and The Jean Genie (5,5) 27 Activities directed against enemy agents (7‑9) 28 Priest’s vestment for celebrating Mass (8) 29 One of the four medieval medical humours (5) 31 People who steal personal property (10) 32 Monkey ___, 1931 Marx Brothers film (8) 36 White wine from the Rhine valley in Germany (8) 37 French midfielder who plays for Manchester United (4,5) 38 Patrick Macnee’s character in The Avengers (5) 42 Book printed before 1501 (11) 44 Alabama’s largest city (10) 45 Finnish word for Finland (5) 49 Famous Picasso war painting (8) 51 Miami’s American football team (8) 52 Pungent culinar y bulb, a species of Allium (6) 53 Orange‑coloured Italian aperitif (6) 54 Penny’s husband in The Big Bang Theor y (7) 58 ___ man, cricketing position (5) 59 Location of the talus bone (5) 61 Manufacturer of the Punto (4) 63 Famous London hotel in Piccadilly (4)