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***** Jackson, fictional demigod played on film by Logan Lerman (5)

6 ***** Hunt, actress who won a Best Actress Oscar in 1997 film ‘As Good as It Gets’ (5)

9 Pet dog of Dennis the Menace in comic magazine ‘The Beano’ (7)

10 Epithet of the Greek god Apollo, twin brother of Artemis (7)

12 Does shirk moving low carriages once used in Russia (9)

13 Some man is announcing Hebrew month containing Passover (5)

15 ‘The Akond Of **** ’, whimsical nonsense poem by Edward Lear (4)

17 Shirin ***** , Iranian lawyer who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize (5)

18 Leave out the captain of a curling team (4) 19 Grey-brown colour for all to see in narrow strip (5)

20 Method of divination in which a person spins round inside a circle (9)

23 English city known as Deva Victrix in Roman Britain (7)

24 A conversation best for uncovering friend of Aeneas in the ‘Aeneid’ (7)

25 Benny ***** , jazz saxophonist born in 1927 (5)

26 Ken is excited to find flock of wild geese in flight (5)

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Population survey starts to count every new sect under scrutiny (6)

Jody ********* , Formula One driver who was world champion in 1979 (9) 3 Ben ***** , screenwriter and director born in 1894 (5)

4 ‘ ******** Supervisor Sleeping’, 1995 painting by Lucian Freud (8)

7 Actor who played Spanish waiter Manuel in ‘Fawlty Towers’ (6,5)

8 Brutal vice sadly encapsulating hard member of a branch of Hasidism (11)

11 Clear some area in Israeli city that is the capital of the Sharon plain (7)

14 1939 romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch (9)

16 Second studio album by Carole King, released in 1971 (8)

21 Hank ****** , actor who voices Comic Book Guy in ‘The Simpsons’ (6)

22 Rebel employed partly in museum district in Lisbon (5)