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Across | 8 | | One of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, a large lighthouse
built on an island in the Bay of
Alexandria (6) |
| 9 | | A marine fish of the genus
Hippocampus that swims in
an upright position and has a
curled prehensile tail (8) |
| 10 | | Nickname of the American tennis
player Maureen Connolly, 1934-69 (6,2) |
| 11 | | Musical by Lionel Bart, which
premiered in the West End in 1960,
whose film adaptation won six
Academy Awards (6) |
| 12 | | A republic on the Gulf of Guinea
in west Africa, formerly under
French control (4) |
| 13 | | A strong espresso coffee made with
less hot water than normal (9) |
| 15 | | Informal name for an electrician,
especially in Australia (7) |
| 16 | | Roman satirist who denounced the
vice and folly of Roman society
during the reign of the emperor
Domitian (7) |
| 19 | | Of or relating to the order of
aquatic mammals having a
streamlined fish-like form, such
as whales, dolphins, porpoises (9) |
| 21 | | Disco and funk band co-founded by
guitarist Nile Rogers in the 1970s (4) |
| 22 | | Papal name of Nicholas Breakspear,
the only English Pope (6) |
| 23 | | Of hair, cut short and standing up
stiffly like a brush (2,6) |
| 25 | | Small slender long-tailed parrot
whose Australian variety is called
the budgerigar (8) |
| 26 | | Lois ___ , actress who played Dr
Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James
Bond film Moonraker (6) |
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Down | 1 | | Ice dancer who won a gold medal at
the 1984 Winter Olympics partnered
by Jayne Torvill (11,4) |
| 2 | | A legendary sixth-century Danish
king who appears in the Anglo-
Saxon epic poems Beowulf
and Widsith (8) |
| 3 | | A domestic slave in Anglo-Saxon
times (4) |
| 4 | | A resort on the Portuguese Riviera
which has one of Europe's largest casinos, built in 1916 (7) |
| 5 | | A person skilled in telling
anecdotes (9) |
| 6 | | A non-metallic halogen element
giving a violet-coloured vapour (6) |
| 7 | | Cartoonist for The Daily
Express whose regular
characters included Maudie and
Willy Littlehampton (6,9) |
| 14 | | Tropical woody plant whose small
edible seed is the dahl (6,3) |
| 17 | | Country of origin of the long-
distance athlete Haile Gebrselassie (8) |
| 18 | | Crepe ___ , a thin pancake in a
hot orange- or lemon-flavoured
sauce, usually flambeed (7) |
| 20 | | International sports company
founded in 1924 by the German
cobbler Adolf Dassler (6) |
| 24 | | In Northern England, a stream or
small river (4) |
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