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6 To deviate from the main subject (7) 7 A fish basket (5) 9 ____ Code, strict U.S. film content regulations, discarded in 1968 (4) 10 Writing materials such as paper, pens, pencils and envelopes (10) 11 A roller-shaped object often found in machines (8) 13 An obsessive fixation (6) 15 To assist or support, especially in criminal activity (4) 17 Zsa Zsa, Hungarian-U.S. actress and socialite who was married nine times (5) 18 Island in the Inner Hebrides, site of an abbey founded by St Columba (4) 19 Macaulay, U.S. child actor who starred as Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone films (6) 20 English stand-up comedian who co-hosts TV show Bake Off: The Professionals (3,5) 23 ____ And The Three Bears, British fairy tale and pantomime (10) 26 A hard ornamental stone of varying shades of green and white (4) 27 ____ Starr, Beatles drummer whose birth name was Richard Starkey (5) 28 Christopher, Canadian actor who played Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound Of Music (7)

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1 Unseeded Polish player who won the women’s singles at the 2020 French Open (3,7) 2 Rishi, TV sports presenter who fronted Channel 4’s live Test cricket coverage in 2021 (6) 3 Hindi and Malay are among languages spoken on this continent (4) 4 Claudia, German model who is married to British film director Matthew Vaughn (8) 5 Kings of ____ , U.S. rock band founded in Nashville in 1999 (4) 6 Terry, British children’s author noted for the Horrible Histories series (5) 8 Stieg, Swedish crime writer who created computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (7) 12 Morocco’s national capital, also noted for its mausoleum of King Mohammad V (5) 14 Field athletics event in the Summer Olympics for men since 1896 and for women since 1996 (6,4) 16 A woman’s private room (7) 17 A group of nerve cells in humans and other vertebrates (8) 21 A form of courtly dramatic entertainment in which music and dancing played a part (6) 22 A northern sea duck whose fine down is used to make bedcovers (5) 24 Arthur, hapless protagonist of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (4) 25 Wendy, English poet whose latest collection of verse Anecdotal Evidence was published in 2018 (4) SOLUTION ON MONDAY