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Largest state of India, on the border with Pakistan; capital, Jaipur ( 9)
Monetary unit of several Middle Eastern countries ( 5)
Of food, cooked or served with a garnish of almonds; from French ( 8)
Small Arctic whale with one long spiral tusk in the male ( 7)
High- pitched musical instrument of the recorder family with four finger holes and two thumb holes; French, ‘ little flute’ ( 9)
Old Testament patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah and father of Jacob and Esau ( 5)
Tropical plant genus of the order Zingiberales to which bananas belong ( 4)
2014 science- fiction monster film starring Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche ( 8)
Provincial capital of Northern Territory, Australia, on the Timor Sea ( 6)
Goddess of abundance in Roman mythology, identified in Milton’s Paradise Lost as the consort of Saturn ( 3)
Character played by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix and its two sequels ( 3)
Disciple of Jeremiah; attributed author of an eponymous book of the Apocrypha ( 6)
Name for Queen Elizabeth I, used for the character representing her in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene ( 8)
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Open trench or ditch conveying water to a millwheel ( 4)
CGS unit of luminance equal to 1 candela per square centimetre ( 5)
Volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Lipari Islands off the N coast of Sicily ( 9)
Daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes in Shakespeare’s Hamlet ( 7)
Pasta in the form of short wide tubes with ridged sides, often slightly curved ( 8)
Derived SI unit of work or energy equivalent to 1 watt- second, 107 ergs or 0.2390 calories ( 5)
‘ Bright and dazzling’ gypsy girl in Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre- Dame ( 9)
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Star of the 2015 comedy- drama film The Cobbler, directed by Thomas McCarthy ( 4,7)
River of northern France on which the cities of Troyes and Paris stand ( 5)
Part of the human body formed by the calcaneus bone ( 4)
English golfer who won the British Open in 1987, 1990 and 1992 ( 4,5)
Comic strip hero appearing in the British magazine Eagle; arch- enemy of the Mekon ( 3,4)
Margaret ____, Canadian author of novels including the Booker Prizewinning The Blind Assassin ( 6)
Capital of Chile, founded by Spanish soldier Pedro de Valdivia in 1541 ( 8)
Subunit of a company of soldiers
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commanded by a lieutenant or subaltern, usually divided into three sections of ten to twelve men ( 7)
Jacques ___, French statesman; Prime Minister 1974– 6 and 1986– 8 and President 1995– 2007 ( 6)
European host city of Expo 2015, running from May 1 to October 31 ( 5)
Volcanic island group in the North Atlantic; from the Portuguese name for the goshawk ( 6)
2015 drama film starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Katie Holmes ( 5,2,4)
Seaport on the southern coast of Croatia, founded as a Roman ( 5)
Secret dungeon only accessible through a trapdoor in its ceiling; from French, ‘ forget’ ( 9)
Country of SE Asia between Thailand and Vietnam, formerly known as the Khmer Republic and Kampuchea ( 8)
Woodwind instrument of the oboe family with a range from B flat below the bass stave up to treble E ( 7)
Rich fabric woven with a raised pattern, typically with gold or silver threads; chiefly used for upholstery and draperies ( 7)
1926 one- movement ballet by French composer Maurice Ravel, originally called Fandango ( 6)
Hybrid offspring of a male lion ( Panthera leo) and a tigress ( Panthera tigris) ( 5)
Metric unit of mass equal to 5 carats or 0.035274 ounces ( 4)
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