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1 ____ Ferraro, the first female US vice presidential candidate to be nominated by a major party (9) 6 Somme village, freed from German occupation on 18 September 1918, a moralebooster for the British forces (5) 10 Saint John ___, upholder of papal primacy, executed in 1535 for his refusal to recognise the king as supreme head of the English church (6) 11 The Treaty of ___, 6 February 1840, between Britain and a number of Maori tribes, which effectively founded New Zealand (8) 12 Thomas John, a 19th-century pioneering social worker who provided establishments for destitute, homeless children (8) 14 Weapon of war first deployed, most effectively, by Germany in 1914 (1- 4) 15 See 5 down 16 Battles of the Meuse-____ were a major part of the Allies’ final offensive in the First World War ( 7) 19 Special operations units of British and Indian armies created by Orde Wingate, to penetrate Japanese lines in 1943- 44 (8) 20 Legendary ancient city, in present-day Turkey, which seems to have really existed (4) 21 A London river, which gave its name to a city prison that was in use from the 12th to 19th centuries (5) 23 Tin-mining district of Devon / Cornwall that had its own court (8) 25 The French commander who lost his life during the defence of Quebec in September 1759 (8) 27 Three First World War battles were named after this river of the Arras area of northern France (6) 28 Immanuel, an influential 18thcentury German philosopher (4) 29 A far right Christian political party in Romania, lasting fromm 1930 to 1941 (4,5)
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2 It is said that the Queen of Hearts on playing cards is based on this Tudor queen (9,2,4) 3 A cult dedicated to a sun god was introduced by this pharaoh and his wife, Nefertiti (9) 4 German painter and printmaker, a major figure of the Renaissance (5) 5/15 Name given to a broad range of activist movements of the 1950s and 1960s, rejecting traditional forms of political organisation (3,4) 7 Major Greek philosopher and teacher of Aristotle (5) 8 British 20th-century historian and scholar, whose reputation was damaged when the ‘Hitler Diaries’ he had authenticated proved to be forgeries (4,6,5) 9 ___ (formerly Albert) National Park, established in 1925 in what was then the Belgian Congo ( 7) 13 The Greek shipping magnate who married Jackie Kennedy in 1968 ( 7) 17 He was the first prime minister of Israel to have been born there, aafter its creation as a state (9) 18 French involvement in this country began under Napoleon III and ended with the 1954 Geneva Accords ( 7) 22 Sir Geoffrey ___, a major 20thcentury historian of the Tudor period (5) 24 Admiral George ___, whose reforms of the British navy contributed to its success in the Seven Years’ War of 1756- 63 (5) 26 The first permanent orbiting space station (from 1986–2001) (3)