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1 1891 Ibsen play originally

performed in Danish (5,6) 8 Ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition (6)

9 Bitter Italian digestif launched in

1919 (6)

10 Name used as a signature by

the Archbishop of York (4) 11 Historic region of Spain associated with Don Quixote (2,6)

13 5-act Gounod opera that

premiered in 1859 (5) 15 Lincolnshire market town where Joan Plowright was born in 1929 (5)

18 Reddening of the skin due to increased blood flow in the capillaries (8)

19 Theodore Roosevelt’s successor as president of the USA (4)

20 Latin verb form used as a

noun, ending -ing (6)

21 1967 revisionist western film

starring Paul Newman (6) 22 English golfer who won the Open Championship in 1951 (3,8)

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2 Real name of the writer George

Orwell (4,5)

3 German artist who engraved

The Four Witches in 1497 (5) 4 Large insect that bites horses

and livestock (6)

5 German composer of the 1878

Violin Concerto in D major (6) 6 Queen of England from 1154

until 1189 (7)

7 Ingrid Bergman’s character in

the 1942 film Casablanca (4) 12 Waterfall near the village of Newbiggin, County Durham (4,5)

14 Japanese earthenware named after the province where it was first made (7)

16 Surname of the Irish coorganiser of the 1985 Live Aid concert (6)

17 Old name for a throat lozenge sucked to sweeten the breath (6)

18 Inner Hebrides isle on which An Sgùrr is the highest point (4)

19 Large Siberian city served by

Bogashevo Airport (5)