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1. Unleavened bread eaten during Passover
2. Short thrusting sword in use until the 17th century
3. British name for an x-ray device used in shoe shops during fitting in the mid-20th century
4. Actor who played butler Benson in the US sitcom Soap
5. According to the Church of England's Table of Kindred and Affinity, a man may not marry his ____
6. A mother who gave birth when over 100 years old, according to chapter 5 of Genesis
7. Brand name shown on many speed cameras
8. Devon town, with England's most westerly racecourse
9. The snowflake genus
10. An unskilled computer hacker who makes use of existing code
11. Handel pastoral opera based on characters in Ovid's Metamorphoses
12. Box from which cards are dealt in a casino
13. Lover of Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World
14. Small pipe on the side or roof of many houses
15. 1979 album by Fleetwood Mac
16. Thomas Hardy poem about the evening chorus of birds
17. A catafalque is often used in this ceremonial event
18. Obsolete double reed instrument pitched below the oboe
19. Author of the Inspector Morse novels
20. In Roman myth, a son of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia
21. Ancient Scandinavian brass instrument
22. Form of alternative medicine, devised by Mikao Usui
23. The fact-obsessed school board superintendent in Hard Times
24. Jean Hill, witness to the assassination of John F Kennedy, was known as the ____
25. Air-filled skull cavity, a Latin word meaning "curve” or "pocket”
26. Sport named after a Warwickshire school
27. National anthem whose original title translates as "War Song for the Army of the Rhine”
28. Artistic presentation in which performers are motionless
29. "The ____s were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke” (Antony and Cleopatra)
30. The sum of four consecutive primes, the first being 193
31. Name for a Cambridge University undergraduate course
32. Driver who in 1995 became (and remains) the youngest ever winner of the World Rally Championship
33. Comic actor who played Ken in the "Suits you” sketches
34. Canadian crime comedy series about mountie Benton Fraser's adventures in Chicago
35. Jamaican-born US 400m runner, world No 1, 2005-09
36. If you do this in bridge, your opponents will almost certainly score 50 or more points above the line
37. In spite of what has just been stated
38. 19th-century Italian painter best known for his Alpine landscapes
39. Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale
40. Singer whose 2010 debut album Lights entered the UK charts at No 1
41. The Girls of ____ is a Muriel Spark novel about hard times in Kensington in 1945
42. A male or female factotum
43. Bernard ____ was a fictional scientist on 1950s BBC TV
44. Colourless viscous liquid used to sweeten food and thicken liqueurs
45. Mammal with lips but no teeth
46. Not the ____ which blows no man to good' (Pistol, in King Henry IV)
47. Ferdinand II of ____ and Isabella I of Castile were Spain's "Catholic Monarchs”
48. Pike-like fish of the Belone genus
49. Religious army receives blow — old-style shields needed
50. Rows of hawks guarding place
51. The row we have here about core of party becoming less wet?
52. Something ropy, second best thing
53. Fish requiring much filleting chap obtained for nothing
54. Next in line is trembling
55. Spot someone not quite in the top level of society?
56. Bard's offspring, not quite 15, suffering setback
57. Sugar found in medicinal doses
58. Governor didn't stand up to censure
59. Synagogue surprisingly lush
60. Hot toil is tricky — help needed to keep balance
61. Seaweed as fertiliser perhaps round middle of field
62. Part of plant in hospital submerged in flood
63. Put in border in church as prime bit of embellishment
64. Right to enter second exam, responding well after failure?
65. Fruits in northern areas wrecked by minimal sun
66. Departs, first to go off edge
67. Squat little son, round and fat
68. For cactus it's cold there!
69. What can clear stuff in port? Get strainer out
70. Language as before for Romans
71. The thing carried by soldier is a clothes box
72. Benevolence finally with Christmas coming up — money for Africans
73. Peridot I like, not half — unusual green mineral
74. Eastern girl eats half of repast — evidence of gastric problem?
75. Nasty Tories seen as offensive
76. Close-fitting garment? Rejoice - it's stirring
77. A not completely cloudy air — one can see through it
78. Primate — evangelical Scotsman?
79. Nurse enthralling South Africa with any number in that country according to some
80. Old beans and peas in terrible soups — start of 9!
81. Restrain priest repeatedly in difficult situation
82. Goddess indicating sequence of characters in faerie
83. Game requiring tons in boxes
84. Impression created initially when turning up in kilt etc?
85. The deepest river: ____ amnis
86. By month (by mind, caveas)
87. She will apply and she will fit
88. (People who are) staring, common gender nom., acc. ppl.
89. Twice, deux fois, zweimal
90. Things that are wished for, n. pl nom., acc. perf. pass. ppl.
91. ____ ramis laurea: bay tree crowded with branches, Hor. Odes 2.15.9
92. Is, ea, id, etc — f. sing. acc.
93. To be left over, to survive
94. Dum spirant, ____: whilst they breath, they have hope
95. To be raised or razed: elevari aut perdi
96. Let's party! Let's big (aliquid) up (hortatory subj.)
97. He swims towards, eg Leander to Hero
98. How many lovers did Lesbia take? CCC, Catullus 11.18
99. They stand firm, lie at anchor: ____ litore puppes Aen. 6.901
100. He went — syncopated, colloquial eg Cic. Ad Fam. 11.13.2.7