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1996 action film starring John Travolta and Christian Slater (6,5)

Grammar, use of a single word to govern two others, as in he arrived in a car and a hurry; from Greek, ‘to yoke’ (6)

City of SW California founded by German immigrants in 1857 (7)

Second person to find a Golden Ticket in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) (6,4)

Savoury paste made from puréed capers, olives and anchovies, used especially in Provençal cuisine (8)

Former name (1824-1932) of the southern Russian city Gorno-Altaysk (5)

Arthur ___, US tennis player who won the US Open in 1968 and Wimbledon in 1975 (4)

European plant cultivated for its aromatic seeds, leaves and roots; Levisticum officinale (6)

James ___, star of the 1946 Christmas film It’s A Wonderful Life (7)

Of a notebook, folder etc, having separate pages that can be added or removed (5-4)

US actor who married actress Leighton Meester in 2014 (4,5)

English city known in Roman times as Deva (or Castra Devana) (7)

2016 animated film featuring the voices of Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake (6)

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First king of Israel, succeeded by his son-in-law David (4)

Hawaiian word meaning ‘love’ or ‘affection’, used as a greeting and farewell (5)

Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology; mother of the musician Orpheus (8)

Silver-grey radioactive metallic element produced artificially by bombarding molybdenum with neutrons (10)

The ___, southernmost region of continental Portugal; capital, Faro (7)

European city that hosted the Olympic Games in 1896 and 2004 (6)

Ninth-highest mountain in the world, in India in the W Himalayas (5,6)

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Capital of the Republic of the Congo and formerly (1910–58) of French Equatorial Africa (11)

Country of SE Arabia ruled by Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said since 1970 (4)

Standard monetary unit of Nigeria, divided into 100 kobo (5)

2011-15 drama series starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp (7)

‘Had we but ___ enough, and time’ Andrew Marvell ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (1681) (5)

and Director of films including 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (4,6)

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Swiss actress who played Vesper Lynd in the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale (6,7)

Fragrant herbaceous plant of the pea family also called sweet clover (7)

Oscar-nominated actress in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas (9,4)

Drink of wine mixed with honey originating in ancient Greece (7)

Principal Latin version of the Bible, mainly prepared by St Jerome in the late 4th century (7)

Paul Michael ___, actor who played David Starsky on TV’s Starsky & Hutch (1975-9) (6) See C.1599 Shakespeare comedy whose heroine is Rosalind (2,3,4,2)

Drain or covered channel carrying water under a road, railway etc. (7)

Male figure used as a pillar to support an entablature or other structure; also called atlas (7)

1979 science fiction-horror film directed by Ridley Scott (5)

Coelenterate sea creature having a tube-like body and tentacles around the mouth, e.g. a coral (5)

Sediment that forms in wine or other alcoholic beverages after fermentation (4)

Representation of the Nativity of Christ as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke; Italian ‘presepio’ (4)

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