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7 Old word for a fever such as that caused by malaria (4) 8 Old English coin introduced by Edward IV, named after Saint Michael who was depicted on its obverse (5) 10/29d/6d Name (applied later) of the notorious establishment founded by Sir Francis Dashwood at West Wycombe, Bucks, in the mid-18th century (4-4,4) 11 eg one of the thousands who followed the Oregon Trail to establish a new life in western North America (7) 12 Pre-Columbian people of the Lesser Antilles and neighbouring South American coast, after whom a sea is named (5) 13 Germanic people who roamed the lower Rhine area in the 3rd century AD and went on to dominate Europe (6) 15 Iron Age hillfort in East Lothian, considered to be among Britain’s bestpreserved examples (8) 17 James IV of Scotland was killed in the 1513 battle at this site in northern England ( 7) 19 Caribbean island, named Concepción by Columbus when he sailed past in 1498 (7) 22 Term coined by Orwell, applied to the period of tension between western and communist powers in the decades after the Second World War (4,3) 24 Name of the first ocean-going iron warship, launched in 1859 (6) 26/1d Period of European history between the end of Roman empire and the Renaissance (6,4) 28 John, 14th-century religious dissident whose followers were called Lollards (8) 30 See 32 across 31 Israeli political party formed in 1973 and led to power by Begin in 1977 (5) 32/30a Warship of Henry VIII’s navy – sank in the Solent in 1545 (4,4) 1 See 26 across 2 Born in 1642, this mathematician became one of the foremost scientific intellects in history (6) 3 City, once the site of the Roman garrison of Luguvalium, near Hadrian’s Wall (8) 4 19th-century English medical practitioner – a renowned cricketer who revolutionised the game (1,1,5) 5 Thomas, a major furniture designer of Georgian England (8) 6 See 10 across 9 John, influential 17th-century English philosopher who helped inspire the European Enlightenment (5) 14 Personal memorial of a saint, held in reverence (5) 16 Physicist Robert Watson-Watt helped develop this into a vital defence system in the Battle of Britain (5) 18 Édouard, French premier arrested by the Vichy regime and later imprisoned by the Germans until 1945 (8) 20 The act of (or any one of) the judges and officials who signed Charles I’s death warrant (8) 21 Indigenous people of the Antilles and coastal areas of South America, among the first native peoples to be encountered by Columbus (7) 23 Cited as one of humankind’s greatest inventions (5) 25 Chinese attempts to ban the trade of this narcotic in the 18th and 19th centuries led to wars
with Britain (5) 27 Nature of the metaphorical ‘curtain’ said to have stretched across Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic (4) 29 See 10 across