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6 A measure of distance, one eighth of a mile, used in horse racing (7) 7 ____ Goldfinger, Bond villain and title character played by German actor Gert Fröbe (5) 9 A golf club with a bulky head used for hitting the ball long distances (4) 10 A recess in a building where vehicles can receive or deliver goods (7,3) 11 One who generally refuses to do or agree to something (8) 13 A short bar acting as a button passed through a loop for fastening a garment (6) 15 Krakatoa and Pinatubo are among volcanoes in this continent (4) 17 On the ____ , expression meaning ‘abstaining from alcohol’ (5) 18 Irish singer/songwriter who recorded May It Be for the 2001 film The Fellowship of the Ring (4) 19 Pierre, late Italian-born French fashion designer noted for his futuristic Space Age designs (6) 20 A rod for measuring the depth of liquid (8) 23 Desperate ____ , U.S. TV comedy drama series set on Wisteria Lane (10) 26 ____ Garland, English author who wrote The Beach, a novel about backpackers in Thailand (4) 27 Adult male voice between alto and baritone (5) 28 Nickname for a player in England women’s national football team (7)

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1 A young female who attends a woman at her wedding (10) 2 Brian, English comedian whose catchphrase is ‘It’s a puppet!’ (6) 3 City in northern India that is the site of the Taj Mahal (4) 4 Lewis, motor racing driver who won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014 and 2020 (8) 5 A tailless webfooted amphibian of the genus Rana (4) 6 Princess ____ , character voiced by Cameron Diaz in the Shrek film series (5) 8 Surname of the fictional aristocratic family who live on the Downton Abbey estate (7) 12 Stiff or unbending (5) 14 A chain of five large, interconnected freshwater bodies of water near the Canada-U.S. border (5,5) 16 The Lady of ____ , lyrical ballad by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (7) 17 This Caribbean island group includes Grenada, Dominica and Saint Lucia (8) 21 Sara, English comedian who wrote and starred in the 2020 TV sitcom Out of Her Mind (6) 22 The Queen’s Gambit and Ruy Lopez are among types of moves in this board game (5) 24 Aladdin ____ , album released by David Bowie in 1973 (4) 25 A short-eared mouse-like rodent (4)

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