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7 Olivia’s uncle in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night ( 3,4,5)

9 Mythical hunter turned into a

stag by Artemis ( 7)

10 Italian race track that includes the Tamburello chicane ( 5)

11 Tree that produces the nuts

used in pesto sauce ( 4) 12 Hardy plant associated with

the Greek Underworld ( 8) 14 Fiji’s largest island ( 4,4) 17 Columbus’ favourite of the three ships he took to the West Indies in 1492 ( 4) 20 Yves Saint Laurent perfume

launched in 1977 ( 5) 21 Surrey town where Dame Margot Fonteyn was born in 1919 ( 7)

23 1888 Van Gogh painting housed at the Yale University Art Gallery ( 3,5,4)

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1 Tasmania’s highest mountain

( 4)

2 Subatomic particle with a

positive electric charge ( 6) 3 Shipping forecast area east of

Wight ( 5)

4 Constellation in which Deneb

is the largest star ( 6) 5 Palestinian town that shares its name with a suburb of Oxford ( 7)

6 Name of a series of Honda models first produced in 1976 ( 6) 8 Liqueur which, with vodka and cream, makes a White Russian ( 6)

11 Russian physiologist known for his work in dog conditioning ( 6)

13 Real surname of the American writer Mark Twain ( 7)

15 Chinese system of exercise

and self- defence ( 3,3) 16 UK publishing company founded by Carmen Callil in 1973 ( 6)

18 Capital city of the Nigerian

state of Oyo ( 6) 19 Alexandria- born composer of the 1946 ballet La Sonnambula ( 5)

22 City of northern Hungary where the Beatles Museum is located ( 4)