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ACROSS

6 Younger brother of Italian plumber Mario in the computer games series (5)

7 To make more reservations than the number of places actually available (8)

10 Small active songbirds of

the family Paridae (7)

11 The Stars And ____, name for the U.S. national flag (7)

12 Agitation or tumult (7)

13 ____ Eye, fortnightly satirical current affairs magazine edited by Ian Hislop since 1986 (7)

14 One who studies the nature and origin of the universe (11)

19 Malcolm, Conservative politician who served as Defence and Foreign Secretary under John Major (7)

21 Letter that precedes pi

in the Greek alphabet (7) 23 ____ of the doubt, presumption of innocence when culpability is uncertain (7) 25 Eleventh studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd released in 1979 (3,4)

26 An inhabitant of a countryside community (8)

27 ____ Pankhurst, suffragette, hunger striker and youngest daughter of Emmeline (5)

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1 Important in the understanding

of past events (8)

2 A figure of speech in which a person or thing is described by being likened to another (6)

3 U.S. outlaw who assassinated Jesse James in 1882 in order to collect a bounty (6,4)

4 A device in a digital camera that directs light to a digital sensor (4)

5 Brooks, golfer who won the

U.S. Open in 2017 and 2018 (6)

6 A failure to take advantage of

an opportunity in sport (3-3)

8 Gian Lorenzo, Italian sculptor born in 1598 who designed St Peter’s Square in Rome (7)

9 Tiptree Jam Museum is in

this English county (5)

13 A high point of land or rock that

juts into a body of water (10)

15 Informally, enough alcohol

to make one drunk (7)

16 Sets of wide, shallow steps stood on by spectators at a stadium (8)

17 Crustaceans, often found on seashores, whose species include the broad-clawed porcelain (5)

18 University of East ____, institution founded in 1963 and based in Norwich (6)

20 In Norse mythology, a large

wolf who killed Odin (6)

22 Codename of pilot Tom Kazansky played by Val Kilmer in the Top Gun film franchise (6)

24 Tropical American lizard that has dark skin with pale crossbands of small spots (4)

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