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Across | 8 | | James ___ , director of the 1985
film A Room with a View (5) |
| 9 | | A reddish-brown, tree-dwelling
anthropoid ape, found only in the
forests of Sumatra and Borneo (5-4) |
| 11 | | Especially of a leaf, shaped like
a feather (7) |
| 12 | | The westernmost city in Mexico,
situated on the Baja Californian
peninsula (7) |
| 13 | | "A person from ___ ", an
intruder who disrupts creativity,
in reference to the ruinous
interruption of Coleridge when
writing Kubla Khan (7) |
| 14 | | John ___ , the only person to have
won world racing championships on
two and four wheels (7) |
| 15 | | Darts player known as "The
Crafty Cockney" (4,7) |
| 20 | | Small Pacific flatfish of the
flounder family, often eaten as
food (4,3) |
| 22 | | A ring-shaped cake made with
yeast, containing nuts, fruit,
etc, and often flavoured with rum (7) |
| 24 | | Paul ___ , leader of the UK
Independence Party following Nigel
Farage's term as Acting Leader (7) |
| 26 | | Poisonous herb of the nightshade
family, having sticky hairy leaves
and yellow-brown flowers (7) |
| 27 | | American actress born Lucile
Vasconcellos Langhanke in 1906 (4,5) |
| 28 | | A form of Japanese natural therapy
involving the laying on of hands
or gentle massage (5) |
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Down | 1 | | African river described by Kipling
in the The Elephant's Child as "great grey-green, greasy ... all set about with fever-trees" (7) |
| 2 | | Dave ___ , member of the rock band
Blur who was elected to the
Norfolk County Council in May 2017 (8) |
| 3 | | Codename of the World War II
operation in which Allied soldiers
were evacuated form Dunkirk in 1940 (6) |
| 4 | | A dish of thin slices cut from a
block of minced lamb grilled on a
spit, eaten with unleavened bread (5,5) |
| 5 | | Lionel ___ , writer of the music,
lyrics and narrative structure of
the musical Oliver!, which
premiered in 1960 (4) |
| 6 | | In military slang, to rake with
machine-gun fire from low-flying
aeroplanes (6) |
| 7 | | French term meaning "in a
body, all together" (2,5) |
| 10 | | State in western India, capital
city Gandhinagar (7) |
| 14 | | The edible leafstalk of a variety
of white beet, Beta vulgaris
cicla (5,5) |
| 16 | | American state whose highest point
is Hoosier Hill (7) |
| 17 | | An anticoagulant, originally
produced by the Wisconsin Alumni
Research Foundation as a rat poison (8) |
| 18 | | A rapidly travelling sea wave that
attains great height, caused by an
undersea earthquake or similar
disturbance (7) |
| 19 | | Of or relating to the house of
Plantagenet that ruled England
from 1154 to 1485 (7) |
| 21 | | A legal official authorised to
certify deeds, contracts, copies
of documents, affidavits, etc (6) |
| 23 | | Danse du ___ , a rhythmical
movement commonly known as the
belly dance (6) |
| 25 | | A native or citizen of Latvia (4) |
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