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6 See 24 across 7 Zheng He, the 14th/15thcentury Chinese admiral and diplomat was a court ___ (6) 8 British naval officer who, after being set adrift by mutinous members of his crew, navigated 4,000 miles to safety (5) 9 Sir Francis ____, historian born in 1788 whose son published the influential Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics in 1861 (8) 10 Portuguese explorer who died before one remaining ship from his fleet completed the first voyage round the world in 1519-22 (8) 11 A nihilistic, anti-bourgeois art movement, originating in Zurich, in reaction to the First World War (4) 13 Draughtsman of the Declaration of Independence, who nevertheless has been criticised as a slave- owner with racist views (6,9) 16 Ancient kingdom, also called Susiana after its capital Susa, in present-day Iran (4) 18 A worldwide dance craze from the US, popularised by Chubby Checker in the early 1960s (3,5) 21 A label applied to a follower of Jacques- Pierre Brissot during the French Revolution (8) 22 Publius Servilius ___ Longus, popularly thought to be the first of the assassins to stab Julius Caesar (5) 23 The Scottish bacteriologist credited with the discovery of penicillin ( 7) 24/6 across Meeting in July 1955 between the US, USSR, France and Britain, as a first step towards easing Cold War tensions (6,6) 1 ____ line, a Neoclassical fashion, especially in women’s high-waisted dresses, from France (6) 2 ____ I, who has been called “the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years” (8) 3 Renowned Greek mathematician and teacher of geometry, who lived in around 300 BC (6) 4 Her work with displaced people in the Second World War led to the formation of a charity named after her, supporting people with long-term conditions (3,5) 5 One of the three great deities of Hinduism (along with Brahma and Vishnu) (5) 6 One of the “three cities of Tripolitania” (with Leptis Magna and Oea) (8) 9 Founder of a national detective agency in US, who thwarted an assassination attempt on Lincoln (9) 12 One of the African ‘Frontline States’ under its first president, Sir Seretse Khama (8) 14 Influential US African-American leader who controversially said that the Kennedy assassination was an example of “chickens coming home to roost” ( 7,1) 15 Surname that derives from the term for a maker of arrows (8) 17 The Muslim calendar dates from 622, that is, the year that Muhammad and his followers arrived at this city (modern name) on their flight from Mecca (6) 19 The name of this historic Saxon kingdom was used by Thomas Hardy to represent the fictional region in which he set his stories (6) 20 Francisco (‘Pancho’), an important Mexican revolutionary leader of the early 20th century (5)