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5 A genre of electronic dance music, characterised by a repetitive four-on-thefloor beat (6) 7 People or things that are no longer productive or useful (4,4) 9 A hard, shiny and strong metal discovered in 1791 used in golf clubs and bicycle frames (8) 10 ____ the Elephant, fictional character in a children’s song written in 1956 (6) 11 U.S. singer/songwriter born in Tuskegee in Alabama in 1949 (6,6) 13 A ski race down a winding course marked by poles (6) 15 A relish consisting of vegetables or fruit preserved in vinegar or brine (6) 18 A room with a glass roof and walls, often used as a sun lounge or for growing delicate plants (12) 21 Sam, singer from North Shields who released his second studio album Seventeen Going Under in 2021 (6) 22 A bird that resembles a small woodpecker and often hangs upside down beneath twigs to eat (8) 23 Former Leeds United FC manager who managed England from 1974 to 1977 (3,5) 24 Probable or expected (6)

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1 Fragments of a bomb, shell or other object thrown out by an explosion (8) 2 ____ media, websites and applications that allow users to create and share content (6) 3 An outlet offering secured loans to people with items of personal property used as collateral (8) 4 A dodecagon is a shape with

this number of sides (6) 6 ____ bachelor, one deemed suitable as a partner in marriage (8) 7 An area or territory controlled by a particular ruler or government (6) 8 ___ Berg, character portrayed by Ned Beatty in the films Superman and Superman II (4) 12 Relating to general

office work (8) 14 A tree or shrub that grows in mainly tropical coastal swamps and has roots above ground (8) 16 Acts of reducing

expenditure (8) 17 A meeting at which people try to make contact with the dead, usually through a medium (6) 18 People who write

computer programs (6) 19 ____ Klitschko, Ukrainian former heavyweight boxer who was elected mayor of Kyiv in 2014 (6) 20 Jay, U.S. comedian and TV host who replaced Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show (4)

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