Scottish Daily Mail

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ACROSS

1 Chemical compound once used in photograph­y, also called lunar caustic (6,7) 8 Malay dagger with a wavy scalloped blade (4) 9 British comedienne and The Comic Strip member (4,6) 10 _ _ _ _ _ _ Palace, official residence of Russian emperors 1732 to 1917 (6) 11 On a worldwide scale (8) 12 Sleeping-berth on a continenta­l train convertibl­e from seating (9) 14 River that makes up part of the German/Polish border (4) 15 Block dug from a bog for use as fuel (4) 16 Go Set a Watchman was her second and last published novel (6,3) 20 The Gabba cricket ground is in this city (8) 21 Danny, actor who plays Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series (6) 23 Ruined ancient capital in Iran designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979 (10) 24 Dutch football club based in Amsterdam (4) 25 2010 neo-noir film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (7,6)

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1 1973 crime film starring Al Pacino in the title role (7) 2 Franz, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer (5) 3 To approve or support (7) 4 Member of an itinerant group adopting an alternativ­e, communal lifestyle (3-3,9) 5 Type of plastic often used to coat the inside of pans (6) 6 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ technique, therapy for training awareness of posture and physical movement (9) 7 Slender spiny-finned fish with rings round its eyes (7) 13 Nicolae, Romanian Communist leader overthrown in 1989 (9) 15 Main sea port of Athens (7) 17 Constellat­ion in the northern sky named after a winged horse (7) 18 Traditiona­l gift for a 55th wedding anniversar­y (7) 19 Odds of three to one in bookmakers’ slang (6) 22 Ex-U.S. President who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 (5)

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