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1 Irish author of works including The Vicar of Wakefield (novel, 1766) and She Stoops to Conquer (play, 1773) (6,9) 10 Military equipment, especially artillery weapons and ammunition (8) 11 Largest city of Alaska, in the south at the head of Cook Inlet (9) 12 Rounded moulding below the abacus of a Doric column, similar to an ovolo (7) 13 Musical direction indicating that a particular instrument or voice does not sound; Latin, ‘is silent’ (5) 15 Alban ___, Austrian composer whose works include the operas Wozzeck (1925) and Lulu (1935) (4) 16 Clarified butter used in Indian cooking; from Sanskrit, ‘sprinkled’ (4) 17 Historic region of south central France merged with the neighbouring Rhône-Alpes in 2016 (8) 18 First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, derived from an Egyptian pictograph of an ox’s head (5) 20 and 25 Down Character who celebrated his ‘eleventy-first’ birthday at the start of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (1954-5) (5,7) 22 See 8 Down 25 ‘For frantic ___ and foolish word’ (Rudyard Kipling ‘Recessional’ (1897)) (5) 27 US director of films including Gremlins (1984) and its 1990 sequel (3,5) 28 Name by which Thailand was known before 1939 and from 1946 to 1948 (4) 30 Any of various long-legged wading birds of the family Threskiornithidaey, which also includes the spoonbills (4) 32 Currency unit of Iran equal to one hundredth of a rial (5) 33 Pat ___, US lawman who shot and killed the outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881 (7) 35 Largest country of Central America, known as ‘the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes’ (9) 36 Brown almond-flavoured Italian liqueur whose name translates as ‘little bitter’ (8) 37 Official motto of the RAF; Latin, ‘through adversity to the stars’ (3,5,2,5)
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2 1960 Frederico Fellini film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg (2,5,4) 3 Max ___ (1891-1976), pioneering German artist of the Dada and surrealism movements; inventor of the frottage technique (5) 4 1971 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical set at the fictional Rydell High School (6) 5 Fictional setting of the 1954 radio drama Under Milk Wood by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (9) 6 Commercially valuable Pacific salmon also known as red salmon; Oncorhynchus nerka (7) 7 Contact on an electrical device such as a battery by which current enters or departs (8) 8 and 22 Across Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667-1745) who wrote under pseudonyms including Isaac Bickerstaff and M. B. Drapier (8,5) 9 1742 oratorio by German-born English composer George Frideric Handel to a scriptural text by Charles Jennens (7) 14 Propulsive property, as of a jet or rocket engine, explained by Newton’s third law of motion (6) 15 Coastal resort of New South Wales, Australia, noted for its crescent-shaped 1-kilometre long beach (5) 18 Alternative name for the Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) of N Africa (6) 19 Planet, usually Venus but sometimes Mercury, seen shining in the western sky after sunset (7,4) 21 Joseph ___, Australian statesman; prime minister from 1932 to 1939 (5) 23 State of SE India formerly (until 1968) called Madras; capital, Chennai (5,4) 24 Any animal of the superclass that includes all of the four-limbed vertebrates (8) 25 See 20 Across 26 Nickname of US gangster Al Capone, deriving from knife wounds received in a barfight in 1917 (8) 29 In mathematics, any positive or negative whole number, or zero (7) 31 Greek island in the Ionian Sea thought to have been the home of Homer’s Odysseus (6) 34 Capital of Cape Verde, a port on the southern shore of São Tiago Island (5)