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10 Dread of confined places (14)

12 Medicinal crystals (5,5)

15 Pantagruel author (8)

16 W European territory created by the medieval papacy (4,5,6) Important city in NW Germany (7)

English cricketer who scored over 54,000 runs (1,1,5) Baseball call after three failed hits (9)

Computer entrepreneur (4,5) Polynesian island about 2600 miles south of Hawaii (6) Brand-name breakfast cereal (5) Former Soviet Central Asian republic (12)

Person from 80 to 89 years old (12)

Madrid’s country (5)

Right to cross private land (8) Catholic antiphons and responses for Good Friday (10) Wide-mouthed sea creature (6,4) 1973 movie with a Scott Joplin soundtrack (3,5)

Body’s centre of sensation and intellectual activity (5) Liberation and unification of Italy in the 19th century (12)

To do with international affairs, as affected by location (12) First name of 1950s actress Ms Ekberg (5)

___ Paradiso, 1989 Best Foreign Film Oscar-winner (6) Substance showing chemical condition by a change of colour (9)

Brand of ‘exceedingly good cakes’ (2,7)

55 Slang term for toddlers (7)

56 Surname of Titanic star Kate (7)

59 Civil servant who checks local

authority accounts (8,7)

61 The Godfather actor (2,6)

63 Energy (3-2-3-2)

64 Propelled by atomic energy (7-7)

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1 Scene of a Spanish Civil War siege (7)

Best-selling 1965 sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert (4)

Forcibly pass (a measure) by overriding opposition (11) Ancient Scandinavian (5) Dutch seat of government (3,5) Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances (8,9)

Italian winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physics (5) 13-digit identifier printed on the cover of published works (inits)(4) Scottish former BBC journalist turned author (5,5)

Torvill and Dean gold-medal music (6)

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Graham Greene novel (3,5,8) Paul ___, The Dam Busters author (9)

Wild ___, hit for the Troggs (5) Rhodes resort (8) Adopted name of the Italian painter Jacopo Robusti (10) River span in which the weight of the deck is supported by vertical cables (10,6) Shaping of thermoplastics (9,8) Workers’ guild (5)

1977 Stephen King novel (3,7) African anteater (8)

Strips of neutral space for access between countries (9)

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Surname of the Australian-born British physicist who was knighted in 1941 (5)

Bart’s sister (4,7)

Beefy liquid starter (6,4) Variety of French Burgundy (5) People authorised to draw up legal documents (8) Famous work by Vivaldi (6) Extremely cold northern area (6)

Hero’s lover (7)

Jungle Book bear (5)

Oil port of Iraq (5)

Final passage in a musical work (4)

City of northern France (4)