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7 Himalayan mountain in India that is the third highest in the world (13) 8 Robert, French painter whose works include 1913’s Sun, Tower, Airplane (8) 9 Agatha Christie novel featuring the Sans Souci Hotel (1,2,1) 10 Thick, incendiary liquid consisting of petrol gelled with aluminium soaps (6) 12 The ... National Park in Argentina was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1984 (6) 14 Hanns, author of the 1947 book Composing for the Films (6) 16 Byzantine general under Emperor Justinian I whose greatest achievement was the conquest of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy (6) 18 The ... is a Test cricket ground in London, England (4) 20 Ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement of sentences upon heretics (4-2-2) 22 2001 novel by Paul Theroux (5,8)

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1 Make of car driven by Juan Fangio in winning the 1957 world F1 motor racing championship (8) 2 Large tropical American herbivorous lizard with a spiny crest along the back (6) 3 Joan, actress who directed the film Autumn in New York (4) 4 Semi-autobiographical political novel by Benjamin Disraeli (8) 5 FW, director of the 1922 film Nosferatu (6) 6 Carbohydrate obtained from seaweeds that is used in ice cream as a thickening agent (4) 11 Small ensemble of street musicians in Mexico (8) 13 Florenz, US musical comedy producer noted for his extravagant revues who died in 1932 (8) 15 DK, Australia cricketer who took 5-84 on his Test debut against England at Adelaide in 1971 (6) 17 Nelson, Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation Oscar winner for the 1974 film The Great Gatsby (6) 19 Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family (4) 21 Another name for the large marine fish called a tunny (4)