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1 Nontechnical name for the sternum, comprising the manubrium, body and xiphoid process (10)

5 Distinct layer of sedimentary rock, categorised as a lamina if under a centimetre thick and a bed if over (7)

10 Of meat dishes, cooked in a French sauce made with mushrooms, shallots and white wine (8)

11 Thin slice of a semiconductor material, typically silicon, used as a base for manufacturing integrated circuits (5)

12 and 31 Swedish-American actress whose first sound film was 1930’s Anna Christie (5,5)

13 Armoured edentate mammal of Africa and Asia named from the Malay for ‘rolling over’; the scaly anteater (8)

14 ‘The hungry ___ look up, and are not fed’ (John Milton ‘Lycidas’ (1638) (5)

15 1985 crime drama film starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis (7)

18 In audio processing, a device used to reduce unwanted background noise by muting sounds below a certain volume threshold (8)

20 Largest island in the Persian Gulf, separated from Iran by the Clarence Strait (5)

22 Bone of the human body that has the olecranon at its upper end (4)

23 Character in the 2019 animated film The Lion King voiced by Beyoncé as an adult and Shahadi Wright Joseph as a child (4)

24 Gastropod mollusc such as the common terrestrial Helix aspersa, having a spirally coiled shell into which it can retract completely (5)

27 Horizontal or x-coordinate in a two-dimensional system of Cartesian coordinates, distinguished from the y-coordinate (ordinate) (8)

29 Seventh-largest of the

31 states of Mexico, in the west on the Pacific coast; capital, Guadalajara (7)

31 See 12 32 Currency unit of Bulgaria equal to one hundredth of a lev (8)

34 Enzyme secreted and stored by the kidneys that breaks down proteins and produces a rise in blood pressure (5)

35 Fifth-largest loch in Scotland, and the deepest body of fresh water in the British Isles (5)

36 Capital of the Italian island and region Sardinia, a port on the southern coast (8)

37 See 26 Down 38 City in Louisiana, on the Red River near the border with Texas (10)

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1 Formerly, the adult leader of a pack of Brownies; known as Brownie Guider since 1968 (5,3)

2 One of the five rivers of Hades, known as the River of Woe (7)

3 Inhabitant of a borough (England, Wales, Ireland) or burgh (Scotland) having full rights of citizenship (7)

4 Ancient capital of Assyria, on the east bank of the Tigris opposite modern-day Mosul, Iraq (7)

6 ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the ___ shall meet’ (Rudyard Kipling ‘The Ballad of East and West’ (1889) (5)

7 Comic novel by English author Kingsley Amis awarded the Booker Prize in 1986 (3,3,6)

8 Italian pasta sauce traditionally made from tomatoes, onions and herbs; literally, ‘sailor style’ (8)

9 Of choral music, sung without instrumental accompaniment; Italian, ‘in chapel style’ (1,8)

16 Upcoming 2021 sequel to the 2015 animated film Minions, featuring the voices of Pierre Coffin and Steve Carell (3,4,2,3)

17 Personification of sleep in Roman mythology, counterpart of the Greek Hypnos (6) 19 Hot ionised gas consisting of positive ions and free electrons, a conductor of electricity (6)

21 Poisonous toadstool with a red cap and white spots, growing particularly among pine and birch trees; Amanita muscaria (3,6)

25 Genus of tropical American plants of the nightshade family (Solanaceae) widely cultivated for their chili pepper fruit (8)

26 and 37 Across English author of novels including The Moon and Sixpence (1919) and Cakes and Ale (1930) (8,7)

28 Kenneth ___, actor who played Andrei Sator in the 2020 Christopher Nolan film Tenet

29 Anonymous or unidentified male person, as in US legal proceedings or police investigations (4,3)

30 Chief minister of the 3rd-dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Djoser, posthumously worshipped as a god (7)

33 Third-largest and second-deepest lake of Africa, forming most of the eastern border of Malawi with Tanzania and Mozambique (5)