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Personification of icy weather, proverbial for nipping noses and toes (4,5)

City that replaced Zomba as the capital of Malawi in 1975 (8)

British runner; 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres (2,5)

Children’s comic strip character created by English artist Mary Tourtel in 1920 (6,4)

P(elham) G(renville) ___, English novelist known for characters including Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves (9)

Sloping mass of loose weathered rock fragments at the base of a cliff, hill or mountainside (5)

Small cake of leavened dough typically soaked in rum syrup (4)

Character played by Johnny Depp in the 2013 film The Lone Ranger (5)

River of southwest Asia flowing from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains through the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea (6)

2016 horror film starring Teresa Palmer and Maria Bello (6,3)

Paul ___, Dutch director of films including Basic Instinct and Elle (9)

‘All ___ is no more than power in trust’ (John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel) (6)

SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second (5)

Danish pop group with hits such as Barbie Girl and Turn Back Time (4)

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Capital and largest city of Cape Verde, on the island of Santiago (5)

Atlantic port of SW Norway; administrative centre of Rogaland County (9)

1979-84 US mystery TV series starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers (4,2,4)

Small charcoal brazier with a grill, usually used for outdoor cooking; Japanese, ‘fire bowl’ (7)

2013 Ed Sheeran song written for the film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (1,3,4)

River of North America forming most of the border between Texas and Mexico (3,6)

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US actor, producer and director married to Barbra Streisand since 1998 (5,6)

Part of a gauntlet or glove that extends up past the wrist (4)

Ray ___, Welsh snooker player who won the world championship six times in the 1970s (7)

Brown speckled European flatfish with its eyes normally on the left side of the head (6)

Small southern constellation between Orion and Columba; the Hare (5)

Instrument played by the musician Orpheus in Greek mythology (4)

Wine bottle equivalent in capacity to twenty regular bottles (15 litres) (14)

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Small carnivorous mammal related to the stoat; Mustela nivalis (6)

Formerly, a local government body exercising supervision over police services, public lighting etc. (5,9)

‘___ sits upon the lips of dying men’ (Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum) (5)

Total output of a painter, composer, author etc; from Latin via French, ‘work’ (6)

Old Testament patriarch given ‘a coat of many colours’ by his father Jacob (6)

Roman emperor 306–37; the first Roman ruler to convert to Christianity (11)

Erik ___, French avant-garde composer and pianist known for works including the Gymnopédies (5)

System of ropes, wires and pulleys that supports the masts and sails of a boat (7)

Network of shallow navigable lakes connected by slow-moving rivers in Norfolk and Suffolk (6)

2009 James Cameron science fiction film starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana (6)

‘All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, ___ of Glamis!’ (Shakespeare Macbeth) (5)

Vitamin-rich red berry of the solanaceous Chinese plant Lycium barbarum (4)

On-screen picture or symbol representing a particular program, device etc. (4)

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