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1 African country that has Nairobi as its capital (5) 4 Puerto Rican municipality that has been home to a 1,000ft radio telescope since 1963 (7) 8 ––– County, football club that plays its home grounds at Pride Park (5) 13 Day Of The –––, a 1939 Nathanael West novel in which one character is called Homer Simpson (6) 14 Pamela –––, the human alter ego of the Batman villain Poison Ivy (5) 15 Hazel –––, regular BBC presenter of the World Snooker Championships (6) 16 Second World War German battleship, sister ship of the Tirpitz (8) 17 EBOV, the cause of a severe, often lethal haemorrhagic fever (5,5) 18 ––– Dunn, Simon Pegg’s character in the Mission: Impossible movies (5) 20 Gladys –––, singer with The Pips (6) 22 ––– Nobel, inventor of dynamite – his wealth posthumously funds a series of annual international awards (6) 26 Conflict that heralded the end of the Tsars and the rise of the Soviet Union (7,10) 28 Tommy –––, lead guitarist in the US rock band Kiss since 2002 (6) 29 ––– Mussolini, Italian Prime Minister 1922-43, Il Duce (6) 30 Andrew –––, Moriarty to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock on TV (5) 32 ––– Are Dancing, an album by Isao Tomita featuring Moog synthesizer versions of Debussy compositions (10) 36 Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964-79 (3,5) 38 My Friend –––, Mary O’Hara novel about a Wyoming farmer and his horse (6) 39 ––– Again (Naturally), a 1972 hit for Gilbert O’Sullivan (5) 40 ––– O’Toole, Bond girl played by Lana Wood in Diamonds Are Forever (6) 41 John –––, actor who played Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served? (5) 42 The ––– Falcon, a 1941 John Huston film based on a book by Dashiell Hammett (7) 43 Ministry for State Security in former East Germany (5)
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2 Rod-shaped bacterium that can cause serious food poisoning (1,4) 3 Form of address for a monarch (4,7) 5 Kimi –––, Finnish Formula One racing driver for Ferrari (9) 6 ––– Ashcroft, Playschool and Play Away presenter during the 1970s (5) 7 Geoffrey –––, former England cricketer whose nicknames include Fiery and GLY (7) 9 Short stanza providing a commentary at the end of a poem (5) 10 Number of African languages that comprise a sub-branch of the Niger-Congo languages (5) 11 A 1980 single by The Jam that became their second UK No1 (5) 12 Central American country of which Daniel Ortega is the President (9) 19 Planet between the orbits of Venus and Mars (5) 21 John –––, one of the Mercury Seven, a group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1959 (5) 23 One of the legal defences for the common law offence of defamation (4,7) 24 Max –––, German surrealist painter and sculptor, pioneer of the Dadaist movement (5) 25 The Rock of –––, monolithic limestone promontory off the Iberian Peninsula (9) 27 The –––, S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel filmed in 1983 with many Brat Pack actors (9) 29 Sweet pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and syrup or honey (7) 31 Harry Potter character who is revealed to be the Half-Blood Prince (5) 33 Kevin –––, footballer who has played for West Ham since 2011 (5) 34 Pagan witchcraft religion developed in England in the 20th Century (5) 35 Nickname of Jean Louise Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird (5) 37 ––– Andronicus, Shakespeare tragedy set towards the end of the Roman Empire (5)