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Pasta in the form of long narrow strips; from Italian, ‘to cut’ (11)

Chief port of the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the mouth of the Congo river near the border with Angola (6)

(To be performed) in a brisk lively manner (7)

President of the Czech Republic re-elected for a second term in January 2018 (5,5)

Low-growing North American holly with greenish-white flowers and small black fruits; Ilex glabra (8)

Alternative name for the Lakota people of North America; Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse etc. (5)

Refuse of grapes pressed for winemaking, distilled to produce brandy (4)

Female germ cell that may undergo meiotic division to form an ovum (6)

Country in the Caucasus of SW Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 (7)

Republic of Ireland county said to have been created by King John in 1210 (9)

‘Pelican State’ of the southern US, purchased from France in 1803 (9)

One of the six orthodox philosophical schools of Hinduism, based on the doctrine of the Upanishads (7)

Son of Del Boy and Raquel in BBC One sitcom Only Fools and Horses (6)

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Upcoming 2018 science-fiction film subtitled A Star Wars Story (4)

Derived SI unit of energy and work equivalent to 1 watt-second or 0.2390 calories (5)

David ___, British writer of espionage novels under the pseudonym John le Carré (8)

Industrial city of SW Ohio founded as Losantiville in 1788 (10)

Monster slain by the titular hero of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (7)

Film of oxide formed on the surface of a metal, especially the green oxidation of copper or bronze (6)

Star of films including Big Daddy and Sandy Wexler (4,7)

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Part of a telephone that converts sound waves to electrical signals (11)

Animal genus of the family Mustelidae to which the wolverine belongs (4)

Brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites (Exodus 28) (5)

Louis and Auguste ___, French cinema pioneers who patented a cinematograph and the autochrome process of colour photography (7)

Leonhard ___, Swiss mathematician considered the founder of modern mathematical analysis (5)

Plant genus of the order Zingiberales that includes the bananas and plantains (4)

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Novel by William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled A Tale of the Last Century (3,10)

Character voiced by the animated film series Hotel Transylvania (7)

In law, the facts and circumstances constituting a crime; from Latin, ‘body of offence’ (6,7)

Gioachino ___, Italian composer of operas including The Barber of Seville and William Tell (7)

Bright-red pigment obtained from the crushed bodies of cochineal insects (7)

State of eastern Nigeria created from the former state of Gongola in 1991; capital, Jalingo (6)

Character played by Zoe Saldana in the Guardians of the Galaxy films (6)

Director and co-writer of the 2018 superhero film Black Panther (4,7)

and First female Prime Minister of Romania, elected in January 2018 (7,7)

Second-largest city of Japan, on southern Honshu at the mouth of the Yodo River (5)

Active free-living form of an insect at the stage between egg and pupa, e.g. a caterpillar or grub (5)

Princess of Arendelle voiced by Kristen Bell in the 2013 animated film Frozen (4)

Material object such as a statue or carved image that is worshipped as a god (4)

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