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Mogul emperor of India who commissioned the Taj Mahal (4,5)
Hard mineral form of alumina of which sapphire and ruby are varieties (8)
Emperor of Japan who succeeded his father Hirohito in 1989 (7)
1979 ABBA hit whose name means ‘littlest one’ in Spanish (10)
King of France who succeeded the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in 987 (4,5)
Robert ___, US author of novels including 1959’s Psycho (5)
Thick brown salty paste made from fermented soya beans, used in Japanese cooking to make soups and sauces (4)
Sixth-largest island of Hawaii, separated from Maui by the Au’au Channel (5)
2018 science fiction thriller film starring Jason Statham and Li Bingbing (3,3)
Oscar-nominated star of the films Penny Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944) (4,5)
Capital and largest city of Romania, on the banks of the Dâmbovita River (9)
Ancient and poetic name for Britain or England, derived from the Latin for ‘white’ (6)
Phoenician king of Tyre who supplied Solomon with materials and craftsmen for the building of the Temple (2 Samuel) (5)
Imperial unit of land area equal to four roods or ten square chains (4)
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Mike ___, English director of films including Vera Drake (2004) and Mr. Turner (2014) (5)
State of NE Mexico on the border with the US; capital, Monterrey (5,4)
Department of S central France east of Cantal and west of Ardèche (5-5)
In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the queen of the fairies and wife of Oberon (7)
Protagonist of the 2011 action thriller film Sucker Punch, played by Emily Browning (8)
Popular name of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by the US Congress in 2010 (9)
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Boastful coward in Italian commedia dell’arte, usually represented as a black-clad mock Spanish don (11)
Sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (4)
Toxin or other foreign substance that stimulates an immune response in the body (7)
Sugary fluid secreted by flowering plants to encourage pollination by insects and birds (6)
South American country occupying a long coastal strip between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west (5)
Heated mixture of equal amounts of fat and flour used as a basis for sauces (4)
US film actress born Neta-Lee Hershlag in Jerusalem in 1981 (7,7)
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Widespread genus of flowering plants to which the nettles belong (6)
Female protagonist of the 1958 Truman Capote novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s (5,9)
Any of various climbing leguminous plants of the genus Vicia, especially the fodder plant V. sativa (5)
Sea lying between western Greece and southern Italy, south of the Adriatic (6)
Elongated region of low atmospheric pressure, especially an extension of a depression (6)
1941 Orson Welles film inspired by the life of US newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (7,4)
Small Old World songbird related to the thrushes; Erithacus rubecula (5)
Dense silvery-white metallic element (atomic no. 75) named after the Rhine river (7)
‘Silver State’ of the western US, acquired from Mexico in 1848 (6)
Capital of the autonomous region of Asturias in north-west Spain (6)
‘Regent of the sun’ and ‘sharpest-sighted Spirit of all in Heaven’ in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) (5)
Muse of history in Greek mythology, sometimes called ‘the Proclaimer’ (4)
Princess of Arendelle voiced by Kristen Bell in the 2013 film Frozen (4)
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