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1981 Rolling Stones hit from the album Tattoo You (5,2,2) ‘The gods themselves cannot recall their ___’, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Tithonus’ (1860) (5) Unit of length equal to one ten-billionth of a metre, mainly used to express the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation (8) Soft white unsalted Italian cheese whose name means ‘recooked’ (7) Rapid slide up or down adjacent notes, especially on a piano or harp (9) Northern Ireland town approximately 68 miles west of Belfast and 34 miles south of Derry (5) River of east central Scotland flowing northeast from the Grampian Mountains to the Moray Firth (4) Star cluster in the constellation Taurus also known as the Seven Sisters (8) Gamal Abdel ___, president of Egypt who nationalised the Suez Canal in 1956 (6) State on the west coast of India administered by Portugal until 1961; capital, Panaji (3) Alcoholic spirit used in cocktails including the mai tai and daiquiri (3) Largest province of Canada by area, settled by the French in 1608 and ceded to Britain in 1763 (6) Eurasian plant of the nightshade family whose forked root was once thought to have magic powers; Mandragora
officinarum (8)
29 Class of vertebrates that comprises the birds, belonging to the phylum Chordata (4)
30 Greek island in the E Aegean separated from the coast of Turkey by the Mycale Strait (5)
31 London theatre founded as the Royal Coburg Theatre in 1818 (3,3,3)
34 Downy-skinned orange-yellow fruit of the Asian tree Prunus armeniaca (7)
35 River of SW Africa forming part of the border between Angola and Namibia (8)
36 Character voiced by Tom Hanks in the Toy Story film series (5)
37 Science or practice of measuring eyesight and prescribing corrective lenses (9)
DOWN 2
Pasta in the form of long narrow ribbons; from Italian, ‘to cut’ (11)
3 Alpine state of western Austria
partly ceded to Italy in 1919 (5)
4 First name of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) (4)
5 Capital city of North Korea, in the southwest on the Taedong River (9)
6 &7 Welsh cyclist who won the
2018 Tour de France (7,6)
8 Shakespeare character introduced in Henry IV, Part 1 and hanged for theft in Henry
V; noted for his bulbous red nose (8)
9 English royal house that reigned from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of Victoria in 1901 (7)
14 In North America, a long sandwich made of a roll filled with meat, cheese and salad (6)
15 ‘There was a laughing devil in his ___’ (Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814) (5)
18 Ancient city in Asia Minor; home of Leander in the myth of Hero and Leander (6)
19 1861 George Eliot novel subtitled The Weaver Of Raveloe (5,6)
21 Richard ___, British author of novels including Watership Down (1972) and Traveller (1988) (5)
23 Second-largest city of Venezuela; state capital of Zulia (9)
24 Tenth month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from 18/19 June to 18/19 July; the month of harvest (8)
25 Main currency unit of Guatemala, divided into 100 centavos (7)
27 Antonin ___, president of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968 (7)
28 2005 biographical action film starring Keira Knightley and Mickey Rourke (6)
32 Double-reed woodwind instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that preceded the modern oboe (5)
33 Imperial unit of length equal to
30.48 centimetres (4)