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Collapse of prices on the New York Stock Exchange on October 29, 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (4,6,5)
Line on a weather map marking points of simultaneous storm development (8)
Moderately slow tempo, between 60 and 66 beats per minute (9)
Legendary poet and lyre-player in Greek mythology who married the wood nymph Eurydice (7)
Indian dish of finely chopped cucumber, peppers, mint etc. in yogurt, served with curries (5)
Standard monetary unit of Thailand, divided into 100 satangs (4)
A strong, hard magnetic silverygrey metal, atomic number 26 (4)
Pseudonym of French writer, dramatist and poet François-Marie Arouet (8)
Tom ___, author of novels including The Bonfire of the Vanities (5)
Second-largest city of Finland, in the southern Uusimaa region near Helsinki (5)
Spicy sauce made from tomatoes, onions, chillies etc, popular in Mexican and Spanish cuisine (5)
Two-player Japanese board game similar to chess; ‘general’s game’ (5)
2016 superhero film directed by Tim Miller and starring Ryan Reynolds (8)
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Mountain in Thessaly, NE Greece, between Pelion to the south and Olympus to the north (4)
2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber (4)
Yitzhak ___, former prime minister of Israel (5)
and Canadian football team that defeated the Calgary Stampeders to win the 2017 Grey Cup (7,9)
Member of an order of Roman Catholic nuns founded by St Angela Merici in Brescia in 1535, devoted to the education of girls (8)
Star of the TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch (7,4,4)
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Medium-dry Spanish sherry darker than fino but lighter than oloroso (11)
Imperial unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (approx. 6.35 kg) (5)
Light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye connected to the brain by the optic nerve (6)
Alternative name for sweetbrier (Rosa rubiginosa); from Latin via Old French (9)
Fernando Henrique ___, president of Brazil from 1995 to 2003 (7)
Frequently drunk butler of King Alonso in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (8)
1959 Howard Hawks western starring John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson (3,5)
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Small bouquet worn on the bodice of a dress or the lapel of a jacket (7)
Andre ___, retired tennis player nicknamed ‘the Punisher’ (6)
Precious crystalline mineral of which emerald and aquamarine are varieties (5)
2017 drama film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay (6)
French architect and town planner born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887 (2,9)
Vertical fold made by folding fabric back on itself and pressing or stitching it into place (5)
Youngest daughter of Russian tsar Nicholas II, believed to have been executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 (9)
Plain metal disc ready to be stamped as a coin, medal etc; from French, ‘little board’ (8) See Capital of Botswana, in the south-east near the border with South Africa (8)
Port on the Atlantic coast of NE Brazil, capital of the state of Maranhão (3,4)
Fine soft hair, especially that covering a human foetus before birth; Latin, ‘wool’ (6)
and Actor who plays Deckard Shaw in the Fast and the Furious film franchise (5,7)
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