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Area of London where the major tourist attractions and theatres are found (4,3) _ Cilic, Croatian tennis player who won the 2014 US Open (5)

Conifer of the Larix genus (5)

17th-century Dutch painter whose works include The Night Watch (9) Period of British history between 1901 and 1910 (9)

_ Bolt, retired Jamaican sprinter and

100 m, 200m and 4x100m relay world record holder (5)

Great _, predatory seabird (4) Basic _, 1992 Paul Verhoeven film starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone (8) Fine, filmy silk spun by small spiders, especially in the autumn (8) _ Modric, Croatian footballer, winner of the

2018 Ballon d’Or (4) Name often given to the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian literature (5)

The process of releasing and relieving strong or repressed emotions (9) New World placental mammal with a leathery armour shell (9)

_ Godden, late British author whose novels include Black Narcissus (5) State in Northeast India famed for its tea and silk (5)

Roger _, British musician who is the lead singer of rock band The Who (7)

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Deontay _, US boxer who has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2015 (6) The largest of Malaysia’s 13 states, in north-west Borneo Island (7) Colourless, volatile and highly flammable liquid (5)

Theory of biological evolution that follows the idea of natural selection (9) Country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, whose capital is Sana’a (5)

Class of mammals which includes the kangaroo, wombat and opossum (9)

7 Queen _ of Jordan, Queen Consort of Abdullah II (5)

8 Paolo _, Scottish singer whose hits include 2006’s Last Request (6)

14 1998 Booker Prize-winning novel by the British author Ian McEwan (9)

16 _ -upon-Avon, Warwickshire market town, the birthplace of William Shakespeare (9)

19 The northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent (7) The capital of Turkey (6) Fish-eating bird of prey also known as the sea hawk (6) Contagious viral disease which causes the swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face (5) Four-stringed musical instrument, the bass member of the violin family (5) The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar (5)