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6 Teacher and historian who became prime minister of post-communist Hungary (6) 8 The first one was built under the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico (4,4) 10 A major seaport of Phoenicia, now in southern Lebanon (4) 11 This town was the seat of the collaborationist French government during the Second World War (5) 12 The Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war are often referred to as the ___ (4) 13 Former Massachusetts governor and Democratic party presidential nominee, defeated by George Bush ( 7) 14 The ___ of Delphi was a famous medium of divine revelation (6) 15 See 28 down 17 At one time a cook in the British colonial army, he became an African leader, and was deposed in 1979 (3,4) 20 Perhaps the United States' greatest inventor, he played a critical role in introducing the modern age of electricity (6) 22 Comtesse de __ ____ was involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 (2,5) 24 The letters emblazoned on the battle standards of the ancient Roman legions (4) 26 A Norman fortification 4 miles from Maidstone, rebuilt as a stone castle in 1119 (5) 27 Offensive weapon which became a ceremonial symbol of royal authority in the British parliament (4) 29 See 9 down 30 County where the activities of six farm labourers in the early 1830s are regarded as the birth of trade unionism (6)
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1 Khrushchev ousted this Soviet premier in 1955 (8) Which Latin-derived term describes Mussolini's government? (see 3 down) 2 Inhabitant of the central European republic that came into being on 1 January 1993 (6) 3 Term describing the Italian government under Mussolini, derived from the Latin for a bundle of rods around an axe symbolising penal authority in ancient Rome ( 7) 4 Palace, perhaps best known as the home of Mary, Queen of Scots (8) 5 Ancient kingdom of eastern Georgia, also called Kartli (6) 7 One of Napoleon’s marshals, who fought at Waterloo. He was executed in December 1815 (3) 9/29 across The United States’ first female secretary of state (9,8) 13 A follower of a Celtic religion, supplanted by Christianity, in Gaul and British Isles (5) 16 The pleasure gardens in Chelsea, alongside the Thames, opened to the public in the mid-18th century (8) 18 Cave in northern Spain with famous ceiling drawings believed to be up to 20,000 years old (8) 19 Known as ‘ the Bear’, he was Duke of Saxony and the founder of the Ascanian Dynasty (6,1) 21 French exponent of existentialism, who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 (6) 23 Ancient fortification in Israel overlooking the Dead Sea, which is a World Heritage Site (6) 25 Venetian family of pioneering travellers, the most famous member of whom apparently spent 17 years in China in the late 13th century (4) 28/15 across Iconic guerrilla warfare leader, who was prominent during the Cuban Revolution (3,7) Compiled by Eddie James