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1 Historical figure played on screen by actresses including Claudette Colbert (1934) and Elizabeth Taylor (1963) (9)
6 Derived SI unit of magnetic flux, equal to 100 million maxwells (5)
10 Ranch or landed estate in a Spanish-speaking country; from Latin, ‘things to be done’ (8) 11 Monetary unit of Malawi equal to one hundredth of a kwacha (7)
12 2020 horror film starring Andrea Riseborough and Demián Bichir (3,6)
13 Oily secretion of the sebaceous glands that lubricates and protects the hair and skin (5) 15 Spongy white fibrous tissue lining the inner rind of a citrus fruit (4)
16 City of southern Nevada whose downtown area is known as Glitter Gulch (3,5)
17 Any short-lived winged insect of the order Ephemeroptera, found near lakes, rivers etc. (6) 20 Cleared area on a golf course from which the first stroke of a hole is played (3)
22 Small pointed tool for making holes, used especially by shoemakers and woodworkers (3) 25 Burrowing mouse-like rodent inhabiting desert regions of Asia and Africa; family Muridae, numerous species (6)
26 US golfer who won the Triple Crown of the Open, US Open and Masters championships in 1953 (3,5)
29 ‘I do perceive here a divided ___’ (Shakespeare Othello (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 181) (4)
30 Ugly Stepsister voiced by Regis Philbin in the 2007 animated film Shrek the Third (5) 31 Italian hors d’oeuvre consisting of thin slices of raw meat or fish, often served with a relish (9) 34 Original name of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (7)
35 Potent green aniseed-flavoured spirit traditionally made with wormwood (8) 36 Medium-hot Indian curry cooked in a paste made from dry-roasted spices; from Urdu, ‘to be fried’ (5)
37 Book size traditionally created by folding a sheet of paper into twelve leaves; also called twelvemo (9)
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2 Swiss-French architect and town planner born Charles Édouard Jeanneret in 1887 (2,9) 3 Semitic language of ancient Carthage, related to Phoenician (5)
4 Verbenaceous tree of India and SE Asia that yields a hard durable timber; Tectona grandis (4) 5 John ___, Scottish physician and writer known for a 1712 satirical pamphlet featuring the character John Bull (9)
6 Highest part of a horse’s back, at the base of the neck above the shoulders (7) 7 Considered to be the highest mountain in Europe, in the Caucasus in SW Russia near the border with Georgia (6)
8 Large region of ancient Greece previously known as Aeolia; homeland of the mythical heroes Jason and Achilles (8) 9 Highly-seasoned sausage of smoked pork coloured red by saltpetre (7)
14 Dish of rolled oats, nuts, dried fruit etc. named from the German for ‘little puree’ (6) 15 Capital of Cape Verde, on the southern coast of Santiago island (5)
18 City on the Rhine in the E Netherlands; capital of the province of Gelderland (6) 19 Nickname of the US State Department, from the river-side area of Washington in which it is headquartered (5,6)
21 Hard greyish-black form of the mineral corundum used as an abrasive and polishing agent (5)
23 Region east of Eden to which Cain went after killing Abel (Genesis 4:16) (4,2,3)
24 Island and former county of Wales known in ancient times as Mona (8)
25 White crystalline monosaccharide sugar produced in plants by photosynthesis and in animals by the metabolism of carbohydrates (7) 27 Spiral cavity of the inner ear that contains the organ of Corti (7)
28 1984 fantasy romantic comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah (6) 32 Department in the Hauts-de-France region of NE France; capital, Laon (5)
33 Small southern constellation between Tucana and Ara known as the Peacock (4)