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Across | 1 | | 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat,
based on his North Atlantic naval
experiences in World War II (3,5,3) |
| 7 | | Company, founded in 1945 in
Clichy, France, which manufactures
disposable consumer goods (3) |
| 9 | | Town in East Sussex nicknamed
"the bonfire capital of the
world" (5) |
| 10 | | Sovereign state in southern
Africa, whose capital is Mbabane (9) |
| 11 | | Bill ___ , actor who played ARP
Warden William Hodges in the TV
sitcom Dad's Army (7) |
| 12 | | Village, eight miles from
Coventry, which claims to be the
geographical centre of England (7) |
| 13 | | The world's highest uninterrupted cascade of water (5,5) |
| 15 | | A fixed stake put down by a poker
player, usually before the deal (4) |
| 17 | | In Indian cuisine, the potato (4) |
| 18 | | European city which hosts the
annual Spectre Film festival,
celebrating science-fiction,
horror and fantasy (10) |
| 21 | | Oakland ___ , NFL American
football club who play in grey and
black colours (7) |
| 23 | | A lightweight weapon first
manufactured in Brno, now in the
Czech Republic, then in Enfield,
England (4,3) |
| 24 | | A medicinal and lubricating liquid
obtained from the seeds of the
tropical African plant Ricinus
communis (6,3) |
| 25 | | A richly jewelled semicircular
head-ornament worn by women (5) |
| 26 | | An obsolete measure equivalent to
216 gallons of ale (3) |
| 27 | | English rock and roll star who
reached number one with Singing
the Blues in 1957 (5,6) |
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Down | 1 | | Genus of edible freshwater fish
native to Africa and the Middle
East, also known as St Peter's fish (7) |
| 2 | | Actor who played notorious
gangster Johnny Rocco in the 1948
film Key Largo (6,1,8) |
| 3 | | Ken ___ , Australian tennis player
who was the losing Men's Singles finalist at Wimbledon in 1974, aged 39 (8) |
| 4 | | Disc jockey who broadcast his
Radio 2 show live from the summits
of Ben Nevis and Snowdon for
charity in 1995 (2,7) |
| 5 | | A sustained involuntary muscular
contraction (5) |
| 6 | | The standard monetary unit of
Madagascar (6) |
| 7 | | Neoclassical monument in Berlin
built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in
the late eighteenth-century (11,4) |
| 8 | | A succession of chords closing a
musical phrase or at the end of a
complete melody (7) |
| 14 | | American folk and blues musician,
born Huddie William Ledbetter in
1889 (9) |
| 16 | | French term meaning "see you
again soon" (1,7) |
| 17 | | An Asian fruit, Prunus
armeniaca, roundish, orange-
coloured, with a downy skin, and
of a rich aromatic flavour (7) |
| 19 | | The top edge of the hull of a
nautical vessel, where it meets
the deck (7) |
| 20 | | A vessel used in a chemical
process, typically a flask with a
long bent-back neck used for
distillation (6) |
| 22 | | A wind of force 10 on the Beaufort
scale, reaching speeds of 55 to
63mph (5) |
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