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6 Christiaan, surgeon who performed the world’s first human heart transplant operation (7) 7 Mountain whose North Face is nicknamed Murder Wall (5) 9 ____ Marx, British painter and illustrator noted for her industrial textile designs (4) 10 Georgian-British singer/songwriter whose debut album was Call Off The Search in 2003 (5,5) 11 U.S. author noted for Riders Of The Purple Sage (4, 4) 13 Surrey village, home of the National Shooting Centre (6) 15 Bjorn Ulvaeus was a member of this musical group (4) 17 Jodie ____, actress who plays Villanelle in Killing Eve (5) 18 Jonathan, TV presenter whose career began on The Last Resort in 1987 (4) 19 Andrew Loog ____ , ex-manager of The Rolling Stones (6) 20 Headlong plunge (8) 23 The largest of the Scottish lakes by area (4, 6) 26 Port city in north-western Spain (4) 27 Saoirse, Lady Bird actress (5) 28 Butler and narrator in The Remains Of The Day (7)

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1 Way for riding a horse but not for vehicles (6,4) 2 Alice ____, The Color Purple novelist (6) 3 Passage into a mine for access or drainage (4) 4 Star signs Sagittarius and Capricorn cover this month (8) 5 An acute or high fever (4) 6 Hastings ____, first president of Malawi (5) 8 News agency founded in Britain in 1851 (7) 12 Country opposite Somalia on the Gulf of Aden (5) 14 Crafter’s Companion founder who became a Dragons’ Den investor in 2019 (4,6) 16 David, protagonist in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (7) 17 A substance consisting chemically of two or more elements in definite proportions (8) 21 Darling Harbour is by this city’s centre (6) 22 Johnny, Still Open All Hours actor (5) 24 Helen, As Good As It Gets actress (4) 25 A kiln used to dry hops or malt (4)

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