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7 Second World War coalition of Germany, Italy and Japan (4) 8 Hampshire town, established as major military base during the Crimean War (9) 9 The standard British military rifle in the First and Second World Wars (3-7) 11 First name of the influential modernist American poet who was charged with treason in 1945 (4) 12 A prehistoric standing stone (6) 13 The French premier who was held prisoner by the Vichy government (8) 15 Thomas, 19th-century economist and leading figure in the campaign for the Reform Bill of 1832 ( 7) 16 Member of a Semiticspeaking people occupying large parts of Mesopotamia from c2000 BC to c1700 BC ( 7) 20 Ancient Greek city-state, an ally of Sparta in the 5th-century BC Peloponnesian War ( 7) 22 Such remains were often depicted in the art of the Romanticist movement in the early 19th century (5) 23 (One spelling of) a form of the ancient Roman imperial title, used in Russia from the 16th century (4) 25 Sir Francis, creator of the spy network that secured the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (10) 26 The 1859 Villafranca peace treaty resulted from this battle between France and Austria (9) 27 Red __ in Agra, main residence of the Mughal emperors (4)
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1 Sir Roger, the British diplomat who exposed atrocities in the Belgian Congo and elsewhere (8) 2 SEATO was one of the accomplishments of his first term as president (10) 3 Chilean family name, prominent in politics, including a socialist president ( 7) 4 Modern genetics derive from the experiments of this 19th-century Austrian in his abbey garden (6) 5 Robert, English lawyer and protestor against the Reformation, executed in 1537 (4) 6 President whose ‘Doctrine’ became a major influence on US foreign policy (6) 10 William, one of the founders of American Express and the famous US staging business (5) 14 One of the terminal towns on the world’s first public railway (10) 17 Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, which rose to dominance in the seventh century (6) 18 Series of early modern laws that linked eligibility for public office with the candidate’s religious beliefs (4,4) 19 Location of the first of the Nazi mass extermination camps ( 7) 20 Present-day city, once an ancient South American capital, made a World Heritage Site in 1983 (5) 21 Trent-side town with 12th-century castle, mostly destroyed in the English Civil Wars (6) 24 Thor Heyerdahl showed that such a vessel could have been used by ancient South Americans to reach Polynesia (4)