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7 A group of actors or other entertainers who tour different venues (6) 8 The lower edges of skirts

and dresses (8) 9 The Laughing ____ , noted portrait by Dutch Golden Age artist Frans Hals (8) 10 Country whose rivers include the Volga and the Don (6) 11 ____ D. Hunter, Britishbased U.S. stand-up comedian born in 1969 (8) 12 Phil, English former darts player nicknamed The Power (6) 13 Male cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney (6,5) 18 London borough that contains Highgate Cemetery (6) 20 Australian singer/ songwriter who cowrote the Peaky Blinders theme song Red Right Hand (4,4) 22 Capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan that is nicknamed The Pink City (6) 23 A common term for foliage, growing plants and vegetation (8) 24 Province of Ireland that contains the counties of Mayo and Galway (8) 25 Condition which the character Raymond Babbitt has in the 1988 film Rain Man (6)

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1 A heavy sea wave that turns into white foam on the shore (7) 2 Thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through the centre (8) 3 ____ Kyle, the alter ego of fictional comic book thief Catwoman (6) 4 A brown almond-flavoured

liqueur produced in Italy (8) 5 Lemn, British author who was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics (6) 6 A being with partial or lesser divine status, sometimes a mortal raised to divine rank (7) 8 A ____ , third studio album by The Beatles released in 1964 (4,4,5) 14 Anna, U.S. actress who played Beca Mitchell in the Pitch Perfect musical comedy series (8) 15 A doctor’s letter to an employer confirming an employee’s absence due to illness (4,4) 16 A bullfighter whose task is to

kill the bull (7) 17 Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to climb this peak in 1975 (7) 19 ____ du Maurier, British author whose novels include Rebecca and Jamaica Inn (6) 21 Sid, U.S. comedian born in 1922 who pioneered the TV variety show format (6)

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