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6 Golden-coloured medium-sweet sherry (7) 7 Popcorn novelist and comedian (5) 9 Oliver, Castaway lead (4) 10 Captain Mainwaring Dad’s Army actor (6,4) 11 Sea between Italian and Balkan peninsulas (8) 13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream king of fairies (6) 15 _ _ _ _ Rutherford, Olympic long jumper (4) 17 Led Zeppelin lead singer (5) 18 _ _ _ _ Romney, Republican 2012

presidential candidate (4) 19 Daedalus’s son who flew too close to sun (6) 20 Good Friday Agreement NI Secretary (2,6) 23 Six-time world snooker champion (5,5) 26 International Christian movement (3,1) 27 Firth of Clyde island (5) 28 The Lady Of _ _ _ _ _ _ _, Tennyson poem (7)

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1 Bond film of 1964 (10) 2 Tasmania’s capital (6) 3 Joe, England’s Test cricket captain (4) 4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ scale for measuring wind force (8) 5 ‘And others’ in Latin (2,2) 6 Mountain nymph (5) 8 Welsh city on the River Usk (7) 12 Collective noun for goldfinches (5) 14 Hermione Granger actress (4,6) 16 Soft Italian cheese (7) 17 Rose Bowl-hosting Californian city (8) 21 Israeli intelligence service (6) 22 Racecourse with summer royal meeting (5) 24 TV crime drama starring Brenda Blethyn (4) 25 U.S. term for waistcoat (4)

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