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1 The ---, a person charged with committing a crime or offence (7)

5 Keyboard instruments consisting of a number of thin wire strings struck from below by brass tangents (11)

10 A backless sofa or couch, designed to be set against a wall (5)

11 Type of worm, the body of which is divided into segments both externally and internally (7)

13 A semicircular jewelled headdress (5)

14 A kind of Italian spiced brioche containing sultanas (9)

15 A person or thing acting as a substitute (9)

16 The power to prevent legislation or action proposed by others (4) 17 British novelist and biographer who wrote Love In A Cold Climate (5,7) 20 A fitted part of a garment, especially around the neck and shoulders (4) 21 In physics, the antiparticles of electrons, having the same mass but an equal and opposite charge (9) 22 A suggestion or implication given in an indirect manner (4)

26 The study of the workings of the movement of living organisms (12) 27 --- Waller, American jazz pianist and composer who co-wrote the 1929 song Ain’t Misbehavin’ (4)

29 In the US, basic training stations for new recruits to the US Navy or

Marine Corps (4,5)

31 No --- --- ---, fifth film to star Daniel Craig as

James Bond (4,2,3)

33 In the Old Testament, the uncle and father-in-law of Jacob (5)

34 In Greek mythology, the Muse of lyric poetry and music (7)

35 Karren ---, vice-chairman of

West Ham United F.C. (5) 36 Another name for the

Old Testament book

Song Of Solomon (4,2,5) 37 A prison cell,

often underground (7) Down

1 Children’s TV character who first appeared on the BBC in 1950 (4,5)

2 A meeting of witches (5)

3 The condition of purity

or holiness (8)

4 In the Roman Catholic Church, an ordained minister ranking immediately below a priest (6)

5 A person who is at least

100 years old (11)

6 A collection of maps,

usually in book form (5)

7 Goes somewhere

in a hurry (3-5) 8 The free-market economic policy pursued by the US under the 40th president (11)

9 Alga growing on the seashore, in salt marshes or submerged in the ocean (7)

12 An industrial city in Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia (8)

16 Prime Minister of

Hungary 1998-2002 and from 2010 (6,5)

18 Exaggerated representations of people (11)

19 Exuberant friendliness (8)

23 Anne-Marie ---, Conservative MP serving as Secretary of State for International Trade since 2021 (9)

24 In music, a style of singing characterised by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power (3,5)

25 A receptacle

for rubbish (8)

26 Tufted balls, usually for ornament, as on knitted hats (7)

28 To be about to happen (6) 30 A form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy a public place and refuse to move as a protest (3-2)

32 Francis ---, Elizabethan navigator who was viceadmiral of the English fleet against the Spanish

Armada in 1588 (5)