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City in Russia on the Volga River NE of Moscow
YAROSLAVL
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& 18D Spanish road cyclist; 1973 Tour de France winner (4,5)
LUIS
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Bernardo —, president of Chile from 1817-23
OHIGGINS
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& 21A Neil Simon stage comedy; 1965 Tony Award Best Play nominee (3,3,6)
THEODD
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Welsh town north-east of Swansea housing a ruined castle
NEATH
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Asmir —, Chelsea and Bosnia-Herzegovina goalkeeper
BEGOVIC
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Fish of North and Central America such as the Longnose — or Spotted —
GAR
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France fullback who scored a hat-trick against Namibia in the 1999 Rugby World Cup
UGOMOLA
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Edmund —, 18th-century Dublin-born statesman who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France
BURKE
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See 10 Across
COUPLE
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La —, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli first performed in 1876
GIOCONDA
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Large desert in E Asia
GOBI
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Author of novels Enduring Love and The Cement Garden
IANMCEWAN
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Radioactive metallic element; symbol Pu
PLUTONIUM
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The —, nickname of Irish and Venezuelan political leaders Daniel O’Connell and Simon Bolivar
LIBERATOR
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Positive electrode in an electrolytic cell
ANODE
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Laurence —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The Boys from Brazil
OLIVIER
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Racing toboggan on which riders lie supine
LUGE
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John —, British mathematician who conceived a diagram that used circles to represent sets and their relationships
VENN
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Genus of dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period
OVIRAPTOR
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Large genus of tropical American succulent plants with showy rosettes of basal leaves
ECHEVERIA
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Cry of a sheep
BAA
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Evelyn —, Scottish percussionist and Grammy-winner awarded a DBE in 2007
GLENNIE
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See 8 Across
OCANA
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Former unit of currency of Italy
LIRA
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1979 film drama starring Ray Winstone and Mick Ford
SCUM