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Mexican herbaceous perennial plant with showy flowers and tuberous roots (6) 8. Capital of Colombia (6) Village in Italy, site of a 1800 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians (7) Mountain system of Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean (5) In Norse mythology, the supreme creator God (4) Lizard of the family Scincidae with reduced limbs (5) Polemoniaceous plant of

N America cultivated for its clusters of white, red or purple flowers (5) Biblical character who built the Ark (4)

Alloy of copper and zinc containing more than 50% copper (5) “The ---”, 1937 novel by AJ Cronin (7) English town and seaside resort in North Norfolk (6) See 20 Down 7. 10. 11. 12. 13. 17. 18. 22. 23. 24. 25. 926 785784 12348514

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Joy, author associated with the 1966 film

Born Free (7)

1974 book by

Richard Adams (7)

Walled city in Tuscany which houses a 13th-century university (5)

Swiss town and tourist resort at the end of Lake

Maggiore (7)

Physicist after whom a unit of work or energy is named (5)

1859 opera by Charles

Gounod (5)

Insect of the suborder

Blattodea which is a common household pest (9)

English city in

Cheshire on the

River Dee (7)

15. See 16 Down

16 & 15Dn. 1953 novel by Raymond

Chandler (3,4,7)

19. Plant related to the banana whose leafstalks are the source of

Manila hemp (5)

20 & 25Ac. Author of the story collection Guys and Dolls (5,6)

21. Rex, author of detective story

Fer-de-lance (5)

Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter. Solve the clues and insert the letters in the appropriate squares to discover a word which uses all nine letters. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. 14.

gives an edible root gives vegetables gives other vegetables

The word may sound familiar, but do you know what it means?

To soak To gratify fully To mock

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Worked gold A stone Part of a coat

gives a Scottish county gives a Yorkshire city gives a Welsh mountain