QUIZWORD CLUES

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1 and 15 Able Seaman of the Swallow in the Arthur Ransome books Swallows and Amazons (5,6) 4 German prisoner-ofwar camp for officers established in World War I (5)

10 and 25 2010 novel by Jodi Picoult (5,5) 11 Annette —, actress who played Margaret Meldrew in BBC TV sitcom One Foot in the Grave (7) 12 Colourless gaseous element; symbol N (8) 13 Hariyanto —, Indonesian badminton player; 1995 IBF World Championship men’s singles title winner (4) 15 See 1 Across 17 and 24 Actor who portrayed Ted Hughes in 2003 biopic Sylvia (6,5) 19 Large mammal also known as a killer whale (4) 20 Anna —, landlady of 28, Barbary Lane, San Francisco, in stories by Armistead Maupin (8) 23 Island of Denmark in the Baltic Sea whose largest town is Nakskov (7) 24 See 17 Across 25 See 10 Across 26 Guillermo —, 1977 French Open singles tennis championship winner (5)

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2 Member of an indigenous people of northern Canada, Greenland and Alaska (5)

3 Stage play by Aphra Behn subtitled The Banish’d Cavaliers premiered in 1677 (3,5)

5 and 7 Subtitle of Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 in E minor of 1893 (4,3,3,5) 6 Leon Battista —, 15thcentury Italian architect whose works include part of the facade of the Santa Maria Novella in Florence (7) 7 See 5 Down

8 Billiards shot in which the cue ball is hit below its centre causing it to recoil after hitting the object ball (5) 9 Study of flags (11) 14 Agostino —, Italian painter born in 1557 whose works include The Last Communion of St Jerome (8) 16 Actress who played Kitty Baxter in 2002 musical Chicago (4,3)

18 and 22 London Underground station on the Bakerloo line between Kilburn Park and Warwick Avenue (5,4) 21 West African republic; capital Accra (5) 22 See 18 Down