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1. Semi-precious form of silica
2. US broadcaster
3. Literary family from Yorkshire
4. Name given to the scandal that overtook Westminster in 2009
5. __ Rukh Khan, Bollywood actor
6. Labour MP for Cynon Valley (1984-2019)
7. Bertie Wooster's valet
8. How, according to Eliot, we felt here, in the old dispensation
9. 7/8's country
10. Royal title in the Indian subcontinent
11. What, in addition to fear, Hunter S Thompson felt in Las Vegas?
12. Rachel __ MP, shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
13. Author of 19/23 and 1/3/17
14. Virginia town, home to the CIA
15. River forming the border between the Central African Republic and the DRC
16. Yuri __, Soviet cosmonaut
17. What happens, according to Yeats, when the centre cannot hold
18. Aneurin Bevan to friend and foe alike?
19. The economic centre of Ivory Coast
20. Ruth __, sculptor in whose honour the US Postal Service issued stamps in 2020
21. Political union criticised in The 19 / 2
22. Indian fast bowler, 2000-2014
23. The __, Robert Conquest's pioneering work on the Gulag system in the 9
24. King of medieval legend?
25. Actor who starred as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale
26. A citizen of the world's largest landlocked country, perhaps
27. Former member of the 9, capital Yerevan
28. Iranian city, home to the Shah Mosque
29. Val Kilmer's nickname in Top Gun
30. What Don McLean drove to the levee?
31. Alcohol made from rice
32. Gemstones that owe their distinctive colour to chromium or vanadium
33. Diane or Buster __, movie stars
34. Sir __ Chamberlain, brother of the more famous Neville
35. Country that became independent of the 9 in 1991; capital Tallinn
36. Historic region and one-time member of the 9, capital Chisinau
37. One of the disciplines in clay pigeon shooting
38. A composition, usually religious, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
39. The only landlocked country in south-east Asia
40. Host of the 2022 World Cup
41. The white whale?
42. Former member of the 9, capital Tbilisi
43. Paul __, French fin de sicle poet
44. Singer whose hits include Hometown Glory
45. __ Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister
46. Intergovernmental organisation founded in 1920
47. Peninsula in eastern Massachusetts
48. Mollie __, actor who played Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?
49. Elmore Leonard's sequel to Get Shorty
50. Irish poet and playwright whose works include Salome
51. Judah's son who, according to Genesis, was "evil in the sight of the Lord"
52. Annual prize for political writing
53. Pre-Columbian American empire
54. Alabama city at the heart of the civil rights movement
55. US state known for corn and caucuses
56. Protoscience, one aim of which was to transmute base into noble metals
57. The county town of Devon
58. Acronym for the European Organization for Nuclear Research
59. Maggi __, artist who created the commemoration of Mary Wollstonecraft in London N16
60. London borough, once represented in part by Margaret Thatcher
61. The Latin for the prayer, Lamb of God
62. Claudius __, Greco-Egyptian astronomer and author of the Almagest
63. Edith __, nurse executed on 12 October 1915
64. __ Brezhnev, former leader of the USSR
65. Bell in the Palace of Westminster
66. Glam rock band headed by Marc Bolan
67. Political entity that came to an end on 1 November 1922
68. Whence came 2?
69. Charlie __, gardening show presenter
70. Well-meaning monarch, according to the carol?
71. Rob __, director of When Harry Met Sally...
72. Isabelle __, star of The Piano Teacher (2001) and Amour (2012)
73. Sunday in Spanish and Portuguese
74. Midwestern river and state
75. Early campaigner against oppressive taxation - or an upmarket chocolatier
76. __ O'Connor, author of Everything That Rises Must Converge
77. 26 December is __ Day
78. Sir Francis __ (1540-1596), naval captain
79. What is celebrated on the 13th day of Christmas?
80. What my true love gave me today, according to the song
81. One of a group of words with the same spellings but different meanings
82. The __, 2015 comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro
83. Historical term for central Asia
84. A citizen of Bishkek?
85. Roman emperor
86. Botswana desert
87. Third-party US presidential election candidate in 2000
88. Ross __, third-party US presidential election candidate in the 1992
89. __ nitrites, known as poppers
90. One-cell creature
91. __ Lamarr, film star
92. Carmen and Juni Cortez
93. Film franchise starring Sid the sloth
94. 1980 comedy starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
95. John __, author of the George Smiley novels
96. President-elect of the US
97. Simon __, Irish rugby international
98. Wildcat soon to be reintroduced to the UK
99. Sign of the Zodiac
100. Greek capital