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1 Beach Boys album that was intended to follow up Pet Sounds in 1967 (5) 4 The ––– Gallery, an art museum in central Florence (6) 8 Mr Yeatman in Dad’s Army, for instance (6) 12 Unit of currency in Portugal that was replaced by the euro (6) 13 Clusters of bones making up parts of the feet to which the legs are articulated (5) 14 Alasdair Gray’s cult novel subtitled A Life In Four Books (6) 15 A Vincent Price 3D horror film of 1953 (5,2,3) 16 One of the equestrian events in each Summer Olympics (8) 17 The cheerful snail in The Magic Roundabout (5) 19 ––– Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-8 (6) 22 The –––, rock group whose hits include Lyin’ Eyes and Hotel California (6) 25 Another name for a Mevlevi, a member of a Sufi order practising ritual dancing (8,7) 28 ––– Girl, US TV teen drama based on the series of books by Cecily von Ziegesar (6) 29 Trade name of a brand of rum flavoured with coconut (6) 30 Chemical element with atomic number 54, one of the noble gases (5) 32 The –––, group that popularised the song Smoke Gets In Your Eyes with their 1958 version (8) 35 The year of Our Lord, abbreviated as AD (4,6) 37 The site of Kubla Khan’s stately pleasure-dome, according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6) 38 ––– pants, three-quarterlength trousers named after an Italian resort island (5) 39 The ––– Mission, the eighth of Patrick O’Brian’s AubreyMaturin series of novels (6) 40 Chess piece that may only move diagonally (6) 41 Cowardly character in the Scooby-Doo cartoons (6) 42 Green cloth used to cover card and snooker tables (5)
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2 American state that has Jefferson City as its capital (8) 3 ––– van Gaal, former manager of the Netherlands national football team (5) 5 Mr Darcy’s first name in Pride And Prejudice (11) 6 ––– Stadium, the home ground of Rangers FC in Glasgow (5) 7 Homer’s epic poem set during the Trojan War (5) 8 Jacques –––, Formula One driver who was the 1997 World Champion (10) 9 Characters that make up the phonetic alphabet futhark (5) 10 Tea blend flavoured with oil of bergamot (4,4) 11 ––– Blackman, Cathy Gale in The Avengers from 1962-64 (5) 18 One of the Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis (5) 20 Period of devotional observance named from the Latin word for wakefulness (5) 21 Emberiza schoeniclus, European bird that breeds in marshy environments (4,7) 23 Beau –––, a 1924 novel of the French Foreign Legion written by P.C. Wren (5) 24 Track and field event for which Jonathan Edwards currently holds the world record (6,4) 26 Vegetable also known as the German turnip or turnip cabbage (8) 27 Folk singer and activist who performed three songs at Woodstock in 1969 (4,4) 31 ––– Elba, actor who plays DCI John Luther on TV (5) 33 Single by the band Suede released in 1996 from their album Coming Up (5) 34 White House cat during the Clinton administration (5) 35 Moonbase –––, setting for the 1970s TV sc-fi show Space: 1999 (5) 36 Food miraculously provided for the Israelites in the wilderness, according to the Bible (5)