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6 1953 noir thriller film starring Marilyn Monroe (7) 7 Mathew, actor who played Gavin Shipman in Gavin & Stacey (5) 9 __ Klein, 20th-century French artist of Nouveau real is me (4) 10 Second brightest star in the constellation Orion (10) 11 Darren, Scottish ex-central midfielder for Manchester United (8) 13 Asafa, Jamaican sprinter born in 1982 (6) 15 River that enters the Channel between Worthing and Brighton (4) 17 Molten rock below the earth’s crust that erupts as lava (5) 18 Electrically charged atoms (4) 19 Cheerful or optimistic (6) 20 TV presenter Dec’s surname (8) 23 Sorcery or the exercise of supernatural power (10) 26 Clear, aniseed-flavoured Greek spirit often drunk as an aperitif (4) 27 Heavy block on which metal can be hammered into shape (5) 28 Late Bulgarian environmental sculptor noted for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995 (7)

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1 Saint Kitts and Nevis’s capital (10) 2 Area around a castle or fortress in a North African town (6) 3 Lisa and Maggie’s older brother in The Simpsons (4) 4 _____ Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl novelist (8) 5 Great Lake connected to Lake Ontario by the Welland Canal (4) 6 The umbilicus or depression in the centre of the abdomen (5) 8 Zeta’s predecessor in the Greek alphabet (7) 12 Stiff or unbending (5) 14 Washington DC building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (5,5) 16 Graziano, Italian dancer who joined Strictly in 2018 (2,5) 17 Orange Mr Men character with elongated arms and a small blue hat (2,6) 21 An official authorised to certify contracts and deeds (6) 22 Football club in Rome for whom Paul Gascoigne played (5) 24 A member of the guinea-pig genus of rodents (4) 25 A structure of wedge-shaped stones (4)

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