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Small European songbird with black and white wings; Fringilla coelebs (9)

Alternative North American name for the chickpea, from Spanish (8)

Later division of the Tertiary period, comprising the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (7)

Yellow vitamin of the B complex that promotes red blood cell production, first synthesised in 1930s (10)

French stew made with haricot beans and meat, typically pork, goose and duck (9)

King of England from 959 to 975, known as ‘the Peaceful’ (5)

Eldest son of Ham and brother of Canaan (4)

Department of E central France created in 1793; capital, Lyon (5)

Any brightly-coloured marine fish of the family Labridae, having thick lips and strong teeth; from Cornish, ‘old woman’ (6)

Large flightless bird of the emu family chiefly found on New Guinea; genus Casuarius, three species (9)

Government department that administered the British Army from 1857 to 1964, now incorporated into the Ministry of Defence (3,6)

1995 Robert Harris novel concerning code-breakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War (6)

One of the official languages of India, derived from Sanskrit and written in the Devanagari script (5)

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Small ornamental case for sewing needles, cosmetics and other small items; from French, ‘to enclose’ (4)

Order of tailless amphibians that comprises the frogs and toads, also called Batrachia (5)

Stellan ___, Swedish actor who starred in the 2015 BBC drama River (9)

Cooked in a spicy tomato sauce with bell peppers and herbs; Italian, ‘hunter’ (10)

Toxic bluish-white metallic element chemically similar to zinc and mercury, atomic no. 48 (7) See Athletics contest combining three consecutive events, usually swimming, cycling and running (9)

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Third smallest state in the US, on the Atlantic coast (11)

County of SW England created in 1974 and abolished in 1996 (4)

Eugène ___, French dramatist who pioneered the Theatre of the Absurd; The Bald Prima Donna, Rhinoceros etc. (7)

Iranian island at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, north-east of Qeshm (6)

Triangular upper part of an exterior wall between the sloping ends of a pitched roof (5)

Projecting collar of starched pleated fabric worn by men and women in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods (4)

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Actress in the 2017 films The Last Word and The Clapper (6,8)

Family of fish in the order Zeiformes to which the dory belongs (6)

Actress who played Courteney Cox’s daughter in the 2016 film Mothers and Daughters (9,5)

and Japanese-born British writer awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature (5,8)

Princess of Tyre who bore the sons Minos, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon to Zeus (6)

River of the E central US forming part of the border between Indiana and Illinois (6)

1949 British film noir starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles (3,5,3)

Rock band formed by former Beatle Paul McCartney in 1971 (5)

River of NE North America on the border between New York State and Ontario, Canada (7)

Record of events year by year, generally in chronological order (6)

Silver as a heraldic tincture, usually used interchangeably with white (6)

Industrial city of central Japan on Honshu island; previously the imperial capital (5)

Capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, a port on the Caspian Sea (4)

Principal monetary unit of Cambodia, divided into 100 sen (4)

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