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Impure form of quartz used in making pestles and mortars (5) Salvador, Chilean Marxist president 1970-73 (7) 1962 James Clavell novel (4,3) The high-pitched cry of a horse (5) Borodin opera named after its 12c Russian warrior hero (6,4) Liqueur made from marasca cherries (10) River upon which Cologne stands (5) Jean Antoine, French painter of fétes galantes who died in 1721 (7) Pipe with finger holes on a set of bagpipes (7) The Roman god of love (5)

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1947 US Open and Wimbledon men’s singles tennis champion (4,6) American state known as ‘the Pine Tree State’ (5) 3 4 5 6 11 13 14 16 17 20

Plantigrade mammal of the family Ursidae (4) Any of various small birds of the swallow family with a square or slightly forked tail (6) Astronaut who accompanied Conrad and Gordon on the 1969 Apollo 12 flight (4,4) In cricket, the batting turn of a team (7) Medieval instrument shaped like a viol in which a rosined wheel rotated by a handle sounds the strings (5-5) Dante Gabriel, English poet and painter who was a leader of the PreRaphaelite movement (8) An --- number is one which shows a position in a sequence (7) Catherine, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (6) Name adopted by comedian Herbert Marx (5) Society formed in England after World War One to encourage Christian comradeship (3,1)