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6 A film, record or other recording made available for sale by its production company (7)
7 Rhys, Welsh actor who played Lizard in the
2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man (5)
9 A swindle or fraudulent
scheme (4)
10 One who makes a short
pleasure excursion (3-7)
11 William, English potter born in 1839, noted for his innovative tile designs (2,6)
13 Graeme, Scottish comedian and panellist on radio show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue (6) 15 ____ Bunton, the youngest member of the Spice Girls (4)
17 ____ Bolívar, Venezuelan statesman born in 1783 who led revolutions in South America (5)
18 ____ lives, the number proverbially allotted to a cat (4)
19 A slum area in a city that is occupied by a minority group or groups (6)
20 A Jewish person of Spanish
or Portuguese descent (8)
23 A small Mexican shrub with bright red leaves, popular as a houseplant at Christmas (10) 26 An imaginary line about
which a body rotates (4)
27 Edvard, Norwegian composer who wrote incidental music to the play Peer Gynt (5)
28 English rock band noted for
their song Cool For Cats (7)
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1 Colourful or ostentatious
in style or action (10)
2 A usually derogatory term for a docile and dependent person (6)
3 A tax or other fee imposed by a government or organisation (4)
4 Element that in liquid form
is used to treat warts (8)
5 A sharp, noisy intake
of breath (4)
6 A frill of lace or other material, especially one that is pleated (5)
8 An illicit liquor shop (7)
12 French city in the Occitanie region that is noted for its Roman remains (5)
14 Fictional football pundit played by Paul Whitehouse in TV’s The Fast Show who spouts nonsense (3,7)
16 A Chinese table game for four that is played with small painted tiles (3-4)
17 A prehistoric era whose first subdivision was the Palaeolithic period (5,3)
21 An ornamental tablet that is fixed to a wall in commemoration of a person or event (6)
22 The approach to a house
within its own grounds (5) 24 Hit the ____ on the head, expression meaning ‘to touch the exact point’ (4) 25 An international sports match, especially in cricket, that usually forms part of a series (4)
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