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1. London West End theatre
2. Ingemar --, Swedish alpine ski racer who won two gold medals at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Games
3. Horace --, character created by the writer and barrister John Mortimer
4. Ulysses S. --, the 18th President of the United States
5. Genus of plants and shrubs with clusters of very small, brightly-coloured, four-petal flowers
6. The muscular third stomach of a ruminant animal
7. City near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, in California
8. Synthetic fibre characterised by its ability to recover its original form after stretching
9. Any of a genus of plants of the mallow family often having lobed leaves and solitary bell-shaped flowers
10. Republic of Ireland county
11. 1992 film starring Al Pacino and Chris ODonnell
12. Port on the Atlantic coast of Brazil
13. -- beat, a syncopated rhythm widely used in rock music
14. Musical based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs
15. Largest city in Scotland
16. In the Old Testament, the second son of Jacob and Leah
17. West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury (639-709)
18. Heraldic star with wavy points
19. The sixth planet from the Sun
20. Coniferous tree
21. The hero of stories by G.K. Chesterton
22. Capital of Bahrain
23. Son of Leontes in Shakespeares The Winters Tale
24. Andrew --, American chef and television personality
25. -- Waltz, the signature song of Patti Page
26. Psychoactive alkaloid used as an experimental treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
27. 1973 horror film starring Deborah Walley and Paul Carr
28. Novel by Edna OBrien, published in 1972
29. Taking industrial action
30. Combining form indicating medical treatment
31. Spiced herring fillets
32. Author of Through the Looking-Glass
33. Scottish carbonated soft drink
34. and 9: 1990 film starring Gerard Depardieu
35. Rebellious state of discontent
36. -- Stevenson, 1900-1965, US statesman
37. Pale yellow Swiss cheese with holes in
38. -- Hemingway, US author
39. Moth of a family whose hairy caterpillars are known as woolly bears
40. Isle of Wight resort
41. Virus named after a river in Democratic Republic of Congo
42. George Gershwin song recorded by Ella Fitzgerald
43. Time fixed for start of a military operation
44. Community concerned with pursuit of education and scholarship
45. Surpass in guile or cunning
46. Chartres is the capital of this French department
47. Site of nuclear processing plant in West Cumbria
48. Australasian soldier
49. Rosalind?¿½s lover in As You Like It
50. 1933 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers
51. Province of south-west Ireland
52. -- Spencer, Princess Dianas stepmother
53. Of a guardian e.g. appointed for a lawsuit
54. The -- is Wild, 1957 biographical drama film
55. Japanese swordsmanship
56. International RC organisation of priests and lay people
57. Village in Dorset with a swannery
58. French Calvinist of 16th or 17th century
59. Twelfth ecclesiastical month in the Jewish calendar
60. Deep-fried chicken dish
61. Spoutless ancient Greek jug
62. Canal connecting North Sea with Baltic Sea
63. Sir -- Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, English explorer
64. Alternative spelling for grassland in South Africa
65. Pop group whose hits include Super Trouper
66. Opera oratorio in two acts by Stravinsky
67. -- Place, centre for Christian retreats etc near Battle in East Sussex
68. Name of three kings of the Belgians
69. Marcus Porcius --, opponent of Caesar
70. Wryneck genus
71. Hull --, Rugby Union team
72. Village on shores of Loch Scavaig on Isle of Skye
73. Finger nearest to ones thumb
74. Type of sound reproduction equipment
75. Dull or uninteresting quality of some food
76. Town in central Australia
77. Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology
78. Small lively eel, the sand eel
79. Author of Thomas the Tank Engine books
80. Predatory or keen-sighted person
81. Act of being released from an official duty
82. Person from Muscat perhaps
83. Obsolete medical word for scabies
84. -- Fitzgerald, US jazz singer
85. Mischievous clown hero of a popular German folk tale
86. In North America a system of charging for hotel room only
87. Warwickshire county cricket ground
88. George --, pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin
89. Used a salmon-spear
90. Euphrasy, plant with purple-and-white flowers
91. River flowing through Lake Geneva
92. Comedian, 1924-68, who had his Half Hour programmes
93. Author of Lorna Doone
94. Pigs flesh as food
95. Orphaned Swiss girl in Johanna Spyris childrens novel
96. Of the French philosopher Rene Descartes
97. Mont --, highest peak in the Alps
98. Tradename for a paper handkerchief
99. Membranous structure
100. Town in south-east Staffordshire