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- 1.1983 single by The Smiths covered by Sandie Shaw a year later
- 2.TV presenter who won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
- 3.In classical mythology, women participants in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
- 4.French city that was the scene of the coronation of most French monarchs
- 5.Common name for Southern African tree, traditionally used to make Zulu spears
- 6.A double fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with other abdominal organs
- 7.Native American people living in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
- 8.16-day festival held each year in Munich
- 9.Globular clouds at about 6,500 feet to 20,000 feet
- 10.Pioneer company in arcade games, home video game consoles and home computers with a logo based on Mount Fuji
- 11.1997 sci-fi film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law
- 12.The remains of a Neolithic burial cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire
- 13.In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth
- 14.Peter ___, New Zealand middle-distance runner who won three Olympic gold medals
- 15.English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
- 16.Market town that was once the central Cinque Port, between Hastings and New Romney to the west and Dover and Sandwich to the east
- 17.Port in Brittany that is France's chief naval station
- 18.Film that won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress
- 19.German city that is the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr
- 20.Title shared by hit singles for Bryan Adams, Rage, Whitney Houston and Roxette
- 21.In the New Testament, a Pharisee who supported Jesus against the other Pharisees
- 22.In the Old Testament, the son of Phinehas, born on the day that the Israelites' Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity
- 23.Former standard monetary unit of Greece, replaced by the euro in 2002
- 24.Roman Emperor from AD 117 to 138
- 25.The inability or refusal to swallow
- 26.Syrup derived from the dried rhizome and roots of a Brazilian plant that is used as an emetic
- 27.The Finnish name for Finland
- 28.Greek god of war, identified with Roman Mars
- 29.1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang
- 30.1957 Stanley Kubrick film based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb
- 31.Currency unit of Hungary, formerly divided into 100 fillér
- 32.Pakistan's largest city
- 33.1999 hit single by American girl group TLC
- 34.Single by Hall & Oates that reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983
- 35.The first President of Zambia
- 36.Oratorio by Edward Elgar to text from a poem by Cardinal Newman
- 37.Another name for a bird's bastard wing
- 38.Coastal town in Norfolk at the mouth of the River Yare
- 39.Long-tailed gallinaceous bird of the family Phasianidae
- 40.Former Anti-Apartheid Movement activist and Labour minister created a life peer in 2015
- 41.Device that controls the quantity of fuel or fuel and air mixture entering an engine
- 42.1985 UK number 1 single by Paul Hardcastle
- 43.1966 film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, based on a book of the same name by Joy Adamson
- 44.Another name for Taurus
- 45.Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais
- 46.Actor nicknamed "The King of Hollywood"
- 47.Mariah Carey's fifth consecutive number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
- 48.Scottish football club based in Kirkcaldy
- 49.Cathedral city on the River Nene
- 50.The major centre-right political party in Israel, founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin
- 51.State of Malaysia, on the NW coast of Borneo, whose capital is Kuching
- 52.Niccol ___, popular Italian composer who was a rival of Gluck
- 53.Italian port that is capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region
- 54.A loop of elastic covered loosely with fabric, used to hold hair in a ponytail
- 55.Genus of perennial woody fungi in the family Polyporaceae
- 56.Spanish international defender who had a loan spell at Leeds United from Real Madrid in 2003
- 57.The Muse of lyric poetry and music in Greek mythology
- 58.One of six sheadings in the Isle of Man, comprising the parishes of Andreas, Bride and Lezayre
- 59.Novel by James Joyce featuring the character Leopold Bloom
- 60.Film for which Jessica Lange won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
- 61.Coconut fibre used in making rope and matting
- 62.Rare gas that has the atomic number 18
- 63.Home ground of Crystal Palace FC
- 64.Former England winger who played for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and Burnley in the Premier League
- 65.Another name for the African violet
- 66.2008 animated film for which John Cusack provided the voice of the title character
- 67.In law, a form of evidence obtained from a witness who makes a solemn statement or declaration of fact
- 68.Plant also called a wood hyacinth
- 69.Jack ___, American novelist and poet considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation
- 70.Board game that takes its name from the Greek for "jump"
- 71.Elvis Presley single that topped the US Billboard chart for eight weeks in 1957
- 72.Tropical Asian tree whose bark yields a spice
- 73.Isamu ___, American artist whose work includes an iconic table introduced by Herman Miller in 1947
- 74.Province of Canada first settled by the French as Acadia
- 75.Song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman that held three positions in the British Top 20 in May 1959
- 76.Pop duo comprising David Van Day and Thereza Bazar
- 77.A man's soft felt hat named after the heroine of a novel by George du Maurier
- 78.The 16th president of the United States of America
- 79.US state whose capital is Salem
- 80.Ferry company owned by SNCF that operated ferry services between Calais and Dover until liquidated in 2012
- 81.In Chinese cookery, a dumpling filled with spiced minced pork, usually served in soup
- 82.Bette ___, American singer, actress and comedian known as "The Divine Miss M"
- 83.1931 novel in a series by E F Benson
- 84.2023 Greta Gerwig film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling
- 85.1984 album by David Bowie
- 86.African country whose capital is Nouakchott
- 87.Brazil's chief port, on Guanabara Bay
- 88.English county whose administrative centre is Truro
- 89.Small shrub with a strong mintlike odour
- 90.English-born comedy partner of Oliver Hardy
- 91.American jazz saxophonist known as "The Sound"
- 92.The directorial film debut of Martha Fiennes, starring her brother Ralph in the title role, with music by brother Magnus
- 93.Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais
- 94.Tree of the genus Castanea with edible nuts
- 95.Sovereign state in Oceania whose capital, Honiara, is on Guadalcanal
- 96.Light porous volcanic rock used as an abrasive
- 97.The third largest river system in South America
- 98.A dry brown brandy distilled in the French district of Gers
- 99.1950 John Ford western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
- 100.Industrial city in France that was the medieval capital of Flanders
- 101.African country whose capital is Bujumbura
- 102.A piece of music composed for a group of nine instruments
- 103.Rock group formed by the remaining members of Joy Division after the suicide of Ian Curtis
- 104.Member of the molluscan class Gastropoda that has a coiled shell in the adult stage
- 105.English county whose administrative centre is Lewes
- 106.Dante Gabriel ___, poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites
- 107.Island in the Inner Hebrides, located north of Islay and south of Mull
- 108.The thirteenth studio album by Marvin Gaye, released in 1976
- 109.Port in SW Iran, on an island in the Shatt-al-Arab
- 110.The capital of Kazakhstan
- 111.The capital of Jordan
- 112.Infectious disease named from the belief that it was caused by the unwholesome air in swampy districts
- 113.Crime writer who created Chief Inspector Wexford
- 114.Original Latin name for the kumquats from 1784 until reclassified in a segregate genus, Fortunella, in 1915
- 115.Any drug used to treat a particular disease
- 116.A warm-blooded flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- 117.A long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt
- 118.Another name for the disease Human African trypanosomiasis
- 119.1972 David Bowie single that reached number 2 in the UK charts
- 120.South American country whose capital is Quito
- 121.1967 Jeff Beck hit single that features Rod Stewart on backing vocals
- 122.Ornamental Chinese tree also called a maidenhair tree
- 123.Scottish word for an English person or a Lowland Scot
- 124.Ben Elton's first novel, published in 1989
- 125.The capital of Guam
- 126.Sir William ___, 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey
- 127.Acute infectious disease also called black vomit
- 128.Single by Desmond Dekker & The Aces that was the first reggae number one in the UK
- 129.Another name for chronic nephritis
- 130.1998 martial arts film directed by and starring Jackie Chan
- 131.Former name for Taiwan
- 132.American tennis player who became the first African-American woman to win a Grand Slam title in 1956
- 133.1897 play by Edmond Rostand based on the life of a French dramatist and duellist
- 134.Brand of Gournay cheese advertised using the slogan: "Du pain, du vin, du ___"
- 135.1979 Michael Apted film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton
- 136.Openings or indentations, as in a battlement, for shooting through
- 137.Geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands
- 138.Furniture item consisting of a low surface for kneeling and a rest for the elbows or books, for use when praying
- 139.A vertical stabiliser at the rear of an aircraft
- 140.Another name for a slaughterhouse
- 141.1934 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald featuring the characters Dick and Nicole Diver
- 142.Genus of cacti that includes the prickly pear
- 143.Connie ___, American TV journalist and news anchor married to talk show host Maury Povich
- 144.South African writer and political activist awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 145.French-born composer Henry Miller described as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound"
- 146.Marine teleost fish of the genus Hippocampus
- 147.Nickname given to Billie Holiday by Lester Young
- 148.Any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds containing a characteristic chemical ring system
- 149.A member of the Plantagenet royal line descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou
- 150.The ritual washing of the priest's hands after the offertory at Mass