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ACROSS

4 Edible marine gastropod mollusc whose shells are used for ornament (7)

8 Isaac, author of I, Robot (6)

9 Short-haired breed of cat with

blue eyes (7)

10 Island off Turkey in the Aegean which belongs to Greece (6)

11 The part of the human body

enclosed by the ribs (6)

12 Part of the Pacific in Indonesia between Sulawesi and New Guinea (5,3)

18 1925 Noel Coward play (3,5) 20 Omnivorous monkey of Africa

with an elongated muzzle (6) 21 Red wine, especially one from

the Bordeaux district (6)

22 Surgical instrument used in

the delivery of babies (7)

23 Dwarf ornamental tree grown

in small shallow pots (6)

24 & 19 Down ‘The ---’, 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett (7,6)

DOWN

1 Herbivorous marsupial similar to but smaller than the kangaroo (7)

2 1982 film based on a Thomas Hauser book starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek (7) 3 Ignatius, Spanish ecclesiastic who founded the Society of Jesus (6)

5 Region of N. W. France which includes the department of Finistère (8)

6 Greek island in the Aegean Sea whose chief town is Kastron (6)

7 Capital of the Bahamas (6)

13 Dutch spirit distilled from

potatoes (8)

14 Mount ---, highest peak in the

world (7)

15 Long-chain molecule composed of amino acids joined by peptide bonds (7)

16 Japanese city on Ise Bay,

central Honshu (6)

17 North American feline

mammal, Lynx rufus (6)

19 See 24 Ac.