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1. In 2008, Rebecca ____ became the first British swimmer since 1908 to win two gold medals at the same Olympics
2. Drive a new vehicle endlessly around Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, say
3. Composer of Curlew River and The Prince of the Pagodas
4. Painter of Antwerp Cathedral's The Descent from the Cross
5. Fresh early on, Ann leaves Indian office
6. Piz Bernina is the highest mountain in the Eastern ____
7. Deliberate damage done in idle talk
8. Justine ____, Belgian tennis player who won the French Open in 2003 and 2005-2007
9. Suitable packaging left for yellow plant
10. The emperor ____ monkey is supposedly so-called as its "moustache” makes it resemble Wilhelm II
11. Costs to include one million for optically inactive mixtures
12. Good internet service provider creating stir
13. Wind-pollinated hanging flowering spike of various trees
14. Musical direction — "all playing (or singing) together”
15. Missing tail coat located by poet
16. Actor James ____ built The Theatre in London in 1576
17. Cook brought back duck dish from Greece
18. French port at the mouth of the Seine
19. Influential famous folk
20. Wickedness hard to work out in a mother
21. Incus
22. Neat conclusion to Motley Fool, a figure of speech
23. Wrong about famous Doctor being reported — it's a certainty
24. Bewildered, amazed
25. English pre-Raphaelite textile designer and writer
26. Thoroughfare along the south side of St James's Park
27. Jugs seen in tight sweater (forgive a little tastelessness!)
28. Rope dance barred for an audience
29. Philosophical study of the fundamental nature of reality
30. "For here / Am I sitting in a ____, / Far above the world” (David Bowie, in Space Oddity)
31. German city whose Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex became a Unesco world heritage site in 2001
32. Hooked a dipstick that's shortened
33. Scottish football team from Paisley, "The Buddies”
34. Stinking drunk outdoors after tons knocked back
35. Finland, to the Finns
36. New York suburb to the north of the Bronx
37. The Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 prohibited the import of ____ into the UK
38. A weekday in Colombia with new footwear
39. Irish statesman and philosopher who criticised Britain's treatment of its American colonies
40. Wilhelm ____ is jointly credited for the discovery of calculus
41. Back UK vote in front of Scotland's leader? That's bad in Perth
42. The world of Enid Blyton's Noddy books
43. Obscure Muslim ruler and king
44. Capital of Morocco, also a Maltese town near Mdina
45. French wine made principally from merlot or cabernet sauvignon grapes
46. Italian behind horse sedative
47. Rang the changes
48. Timeless footwear in parties could be slippers
49. Take up bottom canvas sheet
50. & 25A The first woman to sit in the House of Commons [two-word answer]
51. A stake once again in winter resort
52. Linden found touching in story
53. Martyr, later canonised, believed to be the first bishop of Paris
54. The first person, in 1935, to fly solo from Hawaii to the US mainland
55. Hostage initially inside so long getting ready for China
56. John Curry, Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie, for example
57. Standard celebrated around a number of stadia in Persia
58. Colloidal dispersion of solid or liquid particles in a gas, such as smoke or fog
59. Notre Dame's three ____s survived the fire in April
60. Father as before folds smart church vestment
61. American cotton worker is a rebel
62. Debut single (and biggest hit) of Mungo Jerry, in 1970
63. Sort of rice in shallow pan one's extracted
64. The odious hypocrite of Molire's comedy
65. See 8D
66. ____ Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter
67. Huge quiches coming up — that's the plan
68. Inferior Scottish trap, hell for leather at first
69. Part of the Antarctic Ocean, named after a British navigator
70. Racing toboggan on which riders lie on their backs
71. Saying about a city, recorded by Goethe in his Italian Journey
72. After supply cut, able to work at high-speed
73. Rural wrangling about one member of branch
74. Informally, the singer for whom Noel Coward created the role of Ada Cockle in The Girl Who Came To Supper
75. ____ de Machaut, French composer of songs in the 1300s
76. ____ were originally played for important people, or sung by lovers for their ladies
77. Song from honey is My Way essentially
78. Sort of bar to retain in towers
79. "____ is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings” (Ed Gardner)
80. "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. ____.” (Miles Davis)
81. Ernest Hemingway novel about Frederic Henry's First World War experiences in Italy
82. Edinburgh residence of Scottish monarchs until 1603
83. Plant again in February not following accepted ground
84. Palindromic trade name for a machine used to aerate soil
85. Trophy to be awarded on September 16, 2019
86. Sure about areas of land in Shetland
87. Whole; ____ vitae scelerisque purus (Horace Odes 1.22.1)
88. You (pl) will bring others into the fold
89. Exaudi! Hoc dicam non bis, sed modo ____
90. Sermone hominum, fama (abl)
91. Variat; she alters . . .
92. Ascendunt, exoriuntur
93. I have grown up (adolescere, ____, adultus)
94. Athenian lawgiver, nearly a cheery farewell
95. Having used the experience
96. Auxilium dat (personal); placet (impersonal)
97. Violenter et celeriter capite
98. (vide 3) Evil things (Partitive gen, dependent on first word, "so much [of]”)
99. Within a single hour
100. Permission to leave; let him go out