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ACROSS
6 A tree whose leaf appears on Canada’s national flag (5) 7 Rowan, English comedian
and actor who played the title role in TV
series Maigret (8) 10 Welsh seaside resort on Tremadog Bay noted for its castle founded in 1283 (7) 11 Language from which the word ‘yoghurt’ originated (7) 12 Iron ____, political barrier between the West and the Soviet bloc during the Cold War (7) 13 ____ Gleeson, Irish actor who played Alastor
Moody in the Harry Potter film series (7) 14 A fiercely contested
fight or dispute (6,5) 19 The ____, Batman’s enemy who often wears a domino mask and bowler hat (7) 21 Material burned to give fragrant fumes in religious rites (7) 23 A junction between
two nerve cells (7) 25 ____ politics, type that is aimed primarily at satisfying public opinion (7) 26 A plane curve that is mirror symmetrical and roughly U-shaped (8) 27 The number of lanes in a World Championship swimming pool (5)
DOWN
1 Feminist magazine founded
in the UK in 1972 (5,3) 2 ____ Joy, the Commander’s wife in dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (6) 3 A U.S. term for a person who begs in the street for money (10) 4 A short piece of comic or parodic writing, usually for performance (4) 5 Materially rich or well-off (6) 6 A member of a band of aristocratic ruffians in the early 18th century (6) 8 A place where young plants or
trees are grown for sale (7) 9 Song by Aretha Franklin
recorded in 1968 (5) 13 English city in which you would find Villa Park football stadium (10) 15 A mild-flavoured, mainly freshwater fish originally native to Africa (7) 16 Dead ____, a system of communication such as Latin or Sumerian (8) 17 An area of shrubs
and small trees (5) 18 A person’s orders
or command (6) 20 ____ Warehouse, London theatre at which Sam Mendes was the artistic director between 1992 and 2002 (6) 22 George, U.S. military officer noted for his Last Stand at the Battle Of The Little Bighorn (6) 24 ____ Musk, South African-born entrepreneur who is CEO of car company Tesla (4)