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Ursus maritimus, found in coastal regions of the Arctic Circle (5,4)

Capital city of Tajikistan, known from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad (8)

Small slim dagger named via French from the Latin for ‘fist’ (7)

Director of the 2018 film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (5,5)

British tennis player who won the Wimbledon Men’s Singles title in 1934, 1935 and 1936 (4,5)

James ___, English actor in films including A Star is Born (1954) and Georgy Girl (1966) (5)

Penguin voiced by Jeffrey Katzenberg in the 2005 animated film Madagascar and John DiMaggio in its sequels (4)

Bird genus of the gull family (Laridae) to which the kittiwakes belong (5)

City-state of ancient Greece that defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War of 431-404 BC to become the country’s leading city (6)

Transparent flammable plastic made from nitrocellulose and a plasticiser such as camphor, formerly used for cinematographic film (9)

White-flowered leguminous plant of Europe and Asia whose aromatic seeds are used as a food flavouring; Trigonella foenum-graecum (9)

Handsome youth loved by the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone, with each of whom he spent part of the year (6)

Member of a Native American

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people who flourished in Mexico before the Mayas, c. 1200-400 BC (5)

Old Testament book that formerly formed a single work with Nehemiah (4)

US rapper and record producer born Andre Romelle Young in 1965 (2,3)

Women’s international Rugby League team of New Zealand, formed in 1995 (4,5)

Hungarian composer and pianist whose works include the opera Bluebeard’s Castle (4,6)

State of the Midwestern US whose inhabitants are known as Hoosiers (7)

British comedian who played Norm Phipps in the 1998 comedy film There’s Something About Mary (3,5)

Metric unit of length equal to about 3,281 feet or approximately five-eighths of a mile (9)

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Material made from pulped paper mixed with glue, size etc. that hardens when dry (6,5)

Straight one-dimensional geometrical element whose identity is determined by two points (4)

Anthony ___, English author of the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange (7)

Vertical blade at the stern of a boat or ship that can be turned horizontally to direct its course, controlled by a wheel or tiller (6)

State capital of Delaware, founded by William Penn in 1683 (5)

Spin imparted to a cue ball in snooker or billiards by striking it off-centre (4)

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1937 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush (1,3,2,3,5)

Isabella Mary ___, English cookery writer known for 1861’s Book of Household Management (6)

City on the Atlantic coast of SE Florida known as ‘the Venice of America’ (4,10)

In the southern US, a sluggish marshy offshoot of a lake or river (5)

Capital of the Somme department in northern France, famous for its Notre-Dame Cathedral (6)

Eldest of the three Gorgons in Greek mythology, sister of Euryale and Medusa (6)

1930 novel by W. Somerset Maugham subtitled or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (5,3,3)

and Canadian actor who played Ben Cartwright on the 1959-73 US western series Bonanza (5,6)

Of meat, browned in oil and cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic and wine (7) See James Butler ___ (1837-76), US frontiersman and marshal known as Wild Bill (6)

Metrical or rhythmic stress as contrasted with the usual stress of a word in prose etc. (5)

Lioness in the 1994 animated film The Lion King; voiced by actress Moira Kelly (4)

Lionel ___, English composer of musicals including Oliver! (1960) and Maggie May (1964) (4)

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