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1 ––– Tucson, Jolene’s exhusband in the radio soap The Archers (5)
4 Modern branch of science that developed from natural philosophy (7)
8 Oklahoma city that Gene Pitney was only 24 hours from (5)
13 German word for emperor derived from the title Caesar (6)
14 Australian tree such as Acacia pendula whose wood is used for making fences (5)
15 California’s fifth-largest city (6)
16 ––– method, an argumentative dialogue also called elenchus or maieutics (8)
17 Stage name of the British DJ Norman Cook (6,4)
18 Scottish river flowing through the city of Glasgow (5) 20 The ––– Of The Red Death, an 1842 short story by Edgar Allen Poe (6) 22 John –––, author of The Witches Of Eastwick and The Widows Of Eastwick (6) 26 Part of an engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned (10,7) 28 Hannah and Tony Carpenter’s daughter in EastEnders in the 1980s (6) 29 Musical notes that are half the length of semibreves (6) 30 Professor –––, UK rapper born Stephen Paul Manderson in 1983 (5) 32 Tyne and Wear town designated a new town in July 1964 (10) 36 God of dreams in Greek mythology (8) 38 Anatoly –––, Russian chess grandmaster defeated by Gary Kasparov in 1985 (6) 39 The ––– Dance, part of Khachaturian’s ballet Gayane (5) 40 ––– Wilson, American wrestler, gold medal winner in the 1960 Rome Olympics (6) 41 Fleshy appendage on a turkey’s upper beak, also the name of a knitted tube used as a hood (5) 42 Vale of Glamorgan resort known in Victorian times as ‘the Garden by the Sea’ (7) 43 Ulysses S. –––, the 18th President of the United States (5)
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2 Remember The –––, a Texan song that mentions Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett (5) 3 16th Century French mystic whose prophecies were published in a series of quatrains (11) 5 Substance added to another to keep it moist (9) 6 Kathy –––, actress who played Nora Batty in Last Of The Summer Wine (5) 7 Author whose novella Gigi inspired the Lerner and Loewe musical of the same name (7) 9 Posterior, pigmentbearing layers in the iris of human eyes (5) 10 Denomination of Islam in contrast to Shi’a (5) 11 ––– The Cat, a counterculture comic strip filmed by animator Ralph Bakshi in 1972 (5) 12 ––– All Stars, Buena Vista Social Club band led by Juan de Marcos Gonzalez (4-5) 19 Mapp And –––, a series of novels by E.F. Benson twice adapted for television (5) 21 Commercially available meat substitute containing mycoprotein (5) 23 Actress in the films Black Narcissus and The Innocents (7,4) 24 ––– eleison, Lord have mercy, a prayer in the Christian liturgy (5) 25 A star in the final stage of its evolution when it undergoes a massive explosion (9) 27 Soft cow’s milk cheese from Normandy in the north of France (9) 29 Henri –––, artist whose paintings include Woman With A Hat in 1905 (7) 31 A dozen dozen, or one hundred and 44 items (5) 33 ––– Prost, former Formula One driver, champion in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993 (5) 34 Augustine of –––, Christian theologian, 354-430 (5) 35 Early North East African civilisation based around the river Nile (5) 37 Keith –––, singer married to Nicole Kidman since 2006 (5)