Crossword no 228

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Across

1 ________Arnold, eminent Victorian poet who wrote Dover Beach (7) 5 Sir Toby ________, a character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (5) 9 Margaret of ________, wife of Henry VI of England (5) 10 Fishing port on the west coast of Scotland (9) 11 The ________ of Penzance, comicopera by Gilbert and Sullivan (7) 12 A call to a fencer to adopt a defensive stance (2,5) 13 Stately home in south Bedfordshire designed and built by Robert Adam (5,3) 15 ________ House, London residence of the Duke of Northumberland (4) 18 Albert Hall concert (briefly) (4) 20 Arthurian knight, lover of Queen Guinevere (8) 24 ________ Gibbons, late Tudor and early Jacobean composer (7) 25 Highland valley from Rannoch Moor to Loch Leven (7) 27 A play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan first performed in 1775 (3,6) 28 Yorkshire river overlooked by Richmond Castle (5) 29 French sculptor of The Kiss (5) 30 A bright green precious stone (7)

Down

1 An officer in rank between a captain and lieutenant-colonel (5) 2 County town of Somerset (7) 3 Village in which the poet John Clare was born in 1793 (8) 4 Pliable twigs plaited to make baskets, etc. (6) 5 Robert ________, Poet Laureate who wrote The Testament of Beauty (7) 6 Aintree racecourse is in this city (9) 7 ________ Street, location in Westminster of many private specialists in medicine (6) 8 See 23 14 Mining village near Keswick (9) 16 Liberality in bestowing gifts (8) 17 Classic horse race run annually in Doncaster (2,5) 19 A large, impressive house (7) 21 London location for an annual flower show (7) 22 ________ Heigham, a village in the Norfolk Broads (6) 23 & 8 18th-century English writer and Whig politician, owner of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham (6,7) 26 Ancient borough in the county of Somerset, near the borders of both Devon and Dorset (5)