Prize crossword
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City state destroyed in 146 BC by Roman general Lucius Mummius in the process of defeating the Achaean League (7)
8 The ____ Diamond, named in honour of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne (7)
9 English railway pioneer, George ____ and his bridge-builder son, Robert (10)
11 President, later king of Albania, during whose reign the country came to be dominated by Mussolini’s Italy (3)
12 A former secretary-general of the UN who became embroiled in controversy when running for the presidency of Austria (8)
13 ____ Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist, who became temporary leader of the Nazi movement during Hitler’s imprisonment (6) 15 Byname (based on her married name) of Irish-born Mary Harris, a high-profile agitator for the rights of workers in 19th/20th-century USA (6,5)
19 German espionage organisation founded (in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles) in 1920 (6)
20 Flemish 16th-century cartographer, famous for his innovative map projection (8) 22 Ancient region, covering much of modern-day Syria, giving its name to an important Semitic language (4)
Flagship of Nelson’s British fleet at the battle of Trafalgar (3,7)
25 William, early 19th-century English writer, an esteemed critic and essayist (7)
26 ____ Abbey in the Scottish Borders, thought to be the burial location of the heart of Robert the Bruce (7)
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Famed 18th-century Ottawa chief, a great leader of inter-tribal resistance against British rule in the Great Lakes area (7)
2 Now a term for variety theatre, it was originally a Greek stadium for chariot races, etc (10)
3 Seventh/eighth-century Anglo-Saxon theologian, sometimes called the “Father of English History” (2,4)
4 ____ ____, Basque navigator who led the surviving ships of Magellan’s expedition (1519–21) to safety [shortened form of name] (4,4)
Porfirio ____, president of Mexico, who, after several decades of rule, was deposed in 1911 by the Mexican Revolution (4)
6 Historic measure of distances, roughly equivalent to three English miles (7)
10 Greek name of the ninth-century BC Assyrian queen, who, over succeeding generations, has been turned into a legendary warrior leader (9)
14 Celebrated 20th-century travel writer, made a dame commander of the order of the British empire in 1972 (5,5)
16 He was Japan’s longest reigning emperor (8)
17 Welsh mining village, scene of a major disaster in 1966 caused by the collapse of a slag heap (7)
18 Term describing a style such as that of the Alhambra, Granada (7)
21 Term for a 13th–16th-century raider belonging to one of the gangs on the Anglo-Scottish border (6)
23 Family name of father and son 19th-century philosophers, exponents of utilitarianism (4)