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1. English actor noted for his roles in television series including The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Butterflies and As Time Goes By (6)

5. Small fish used to flavour Caesar salad dressing, Gentleman’s Relish, remoulade, salsa verde and Worcestershire sauce (7)

9. Maid ______; character depicted by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a 1991 film featuring a song by Bryan Adams that spent 16 consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart (6)

12. Fur of a species of red squirrel formerly used to line coats; also the heraldic representation of such in an alternating pattern of blue and white (4)

13. Country with Damascus as capital (5)

14. In triathlon, the term for the change between disciplines and the area in which this takes place (10)

15. Herb related to angelica (6) 16. The capital of Venezuela (7)

17. Originally discovered by Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1772, the most abundant element by mass in the Earth’s crust (6)

18. Named after a mythological Greek water nymph who was pursued by Pan, a set of Pan-pipes (6)

20. Italian director whose remake of Kurosawa’s samurai film Yojimbo into A Fistful of Dollars created the spaghetti western genre (5)

22. Double-edged sword formerly used by the Scottish Highlanders (8)

25. Brazilian state with the capital João Pessoa (7)

27. Parisian museum that holds the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace (6)

28. Grumpy ___ ___; TV series narrated by 1 Across with regular contributors including Nigel Havers, Jeremy Clarkson and Rick Wakeman (3,3)

30. Brainless character in L Frank Baum’s

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (9)

32. Ancient Greek dramatist known as the father of tragedy who wrote the Oresteia trilogy (9)

36. Small stone made smooth by the action of water (6)

38. Italian-born British architect who worked on the designs of the Pompidou Centre, Lloyd’s building and Millennium Dome (6)

39. Co-host of Top Gear who presented the first four series of Brainiac: Science Abuse (7)

42. A measure for timber; a regimental flag; or a song of established popularity (8)

43. English version of a stock character derived from Italian commedia

dell’arte (5)

44. Informal term for an outboard motor; also in journalism, a short phrase leading into the main body of a news story (6)

46. Actress who starred in The Good Life and Rosemary & Thyme (6)

49. Sentence containing all letters of the alphabet such as: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” (7)

51. Brand of portable stove used by Roald Amundsen on his expedition to the South Pole (6)

52. In knitting, a pattern or system of alternating plain and purl (4,6)

53. A city in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires (5)

54. The ____; since 1885, Britain’s oldest weekly magazine for women (4)

55. Take a ______ on Me; single by ABBA released in 1978 (6)

56. One of the humanities (7)

57. French word for duck (6) DOWN

2. Branch of morphology concerned with the bodily structure of humans and animals (7)

3. Island nicknamed the “Pearl of the Caribbean” that was visited by Columbus in 1498 (9)

4. Charlotte _____; traditional dessert of custard or bavarois encased in sponge fingers (5)

5. Primula ________; genus name of the flowering plant also known as mountain cowslip or bear’s ear (8)

6. _____ de lune; French for moonlight; a soft bluish-grey colour; or the third movement of Claude

Debussy’s Suite bergamasque (5)

7. Section of the human body responsible for transmitting information from the retina to the visual cortex of the brain (5,5)

8. Recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature (5)

9. Variety of brown sugar used to make dishes such as gingerbread and sticky-toffee pudding (9)

10. The Wind in the Willows character voiced by Peter Sallis in a 1980s television series adaptation (5)

11. Species of colour-changing lizard (5)

19. Mediterranean sailing ship (5)

21. Double-reed woodwind instrument formerly called the hautbois (4)

22. Form of embroidery used in the Bayeux Tapestry (6)

23. Truly, _____, Deeply; film starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman (5)

24. Scottish portrait painter noted for The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch (7)

26. _______ lights;in the UK, the right to receive daylight (7)

29. ______ Henry; series of children’s books by Francesca Simon (6)

31. Songbird with melancholic call during autumn and winter (5)

33. Prime minister of New Zealand who served from 1999-2008 (5)

34. Genus name of lily of the Nile (10) 35. Novelist who wrote Beau Geste (4)

37. Ornamental shoulder fringe for a military jacket (9)

40. UK prime minister from 1957-63 (9)

41. Shirt textile with a white weft and a coloured warp (8)

45. Country bordered by Colombia, Peru and the Pacific Ocean (7)

47. Geological division of time (5)

48. Inventor of the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner (5)

49. Area for playing cricket (5)

50. Codeword of the Nato phonetic alphabet between Quebec and Sierra (5)

51. Don’t _____; catchphrase from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (5)