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US actress and entrepreneur married to actor Kevin Kline ( 6,5)

Ariel ___, prime minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006 ( 6)

Louis Comfort ___, US glassmaker who created the Favrile style of stained glass ( 7)

US rock band whose albums include 2015’ s Uglier Than They Used Ta Be ( 4,3,3)

2016 superhero film starring Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin ( 8)

Small faint southern constellation between Hydrus and Volans; the Table ( 5)

Quantity of 500 sheets of paper, equal to 20 quires ( 4)

King of Wessex whose military victories briefly made him overlord of all England ( 6)

1900 Joseph Conrad novel about a disgraced sailor from the Patna ( 4,3)

Wife of Uriah the Hittite who later became one of the wives of David ( 9)

Chinese language of the Guangdong province, including Hong Kong and Macau ( 9)

Brownish- yellow variety of quartz used as a gemstone; false topaz ( 7)

Large Asian island north of Java surrounded by the South China Sea ( 6)

Central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the chancel; Latin, ‘ ship’ ( 4)

Small quantity of money kept in a

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shop’s till to provide change to customers ( 5)

Slender- stemmed perennial plant with hanging blue flowers; Campanula rotundifolia ( 8)

US actress in films including The Whole Ten Yards and 2012 ( 6,4)

Federico ___, Italian film director; La Strada, La Dolce Vita etc. ( 7)

1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott narrated by the character Frank Osbaldistone ( 3,3)

English singer and actress dubbed the First Lady of British Musical Theatre ( 6,5)

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Beatrix Potter character with sisters called Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton- tail ( 5,6)

King of Mercia who organised the construction of an earthwork between England and Wales ( 4)

‘ The Fastest Milkman in the West’ in a 1971 hit song by comedian Benny Hill ( 5)

Brass musical instrument with a flared bell and bright, penetrating tone, normally pitched in B flat ( 7)

Fish genus to which the brown trout belongs ( 5)

Japanese alcoholic drink made from fermented rice, traditionally served warm ( 4)

US Democratic President who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in 1865 ( 6,7)

American marsupial with a long

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snout and naked prehensile tail; Didelphis marsupialis ( 7)

US singer- songwriter named Best New Artist at the 2016 Grammy Awards ( 6,7)

Chemical element of the noble gas group used in fluorescent lights and lasers; from Greek, ‘ hidden’ ( 7)

Sheikhdom comprising a group of islands near the western shores of the Persian Gulf; capital, Manama ( 7)

Family name of Barney, Betty and Bamm- Bamm in TV’s The Flintstones ( 6)

To be performed smoothly and connectedly; Italian, ‘ tied together’ ( 6)

1988 Tim Burton film starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton ( 11)

Capital city and chief port of Sri Lanka, on the west coast adjacent to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte ( 7)

Region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens, whose chief city was Thebes ( 7)

English singer- songwriter who topped the UK Albums Chart with 25 in November 2015 ( 5)

Frederick ___, Austrian- American composer who collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner ( 5)

Nickname of Jennifer Grey’s Frances Houseman in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing ( 4)

Island country in the South Pacific about 2000 km ( 1,300 miles) northeast of New Zealand; capital, Suva ( 4)

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