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ACROSS

1 Dorset location of a famous

hillside ‘ giant’ ( 5,5)

7 In ancient Athens, a coin equal to one sixth of a drachma ( 4)

8 Puccini opera completed after his death by Franco Alfano ( 8)

9 1981 comedy film starring

Dudley Moore ( 6) 10 American writer of The Galactic Empire series of novels ( 6)

11 Petrochemical compound extremely inflammable at room temperature ( 6) 13 Japanese martial art created by Morihei Ueshiba in the late 1920s ( 6)

15 Ancient European language

also known as Euskara ( 6) 18 Ship used by Shackleton for his 1908 Antarctic expedition ( 6)

20 Small parrot native to New

Guinea and Australia ( 8) 21 Town where the River Clwyd

reaches the Irish Sea ( 4) 22 Pest similar to greenfly that

devastates vineyards ( 9)

DOWN

1 1972 Kander and Ebb film

musical ( 7)

2 The fair- haired boy in Golding’s Lord of the Flies ( 5)

3 Greek Muse of music,

depicted with a flute ( 7) 4 Southernmost inhabited island

of the Outer Hebrides ( 5) 5 Castle that is the seat of the Dukes of Northumberland ( 7)

6 The Lord High Executioner of

Titipu in The Mikado ( 2- 2) 12 British prime minister at the

outbreak of World War I ( 7) 13 Orange- red food colouring used in Central and South America ( 7)

14 Cleon’s wife in

Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( 7)

16 South Asian word for

‘ potatoes’ ( 4)

17 Surrey town joined with Epsom as a local government district ( 5) 19 System of communication developed in the late 1830s ( 5)