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1. Vocalist who recorded the classic albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On
2. Steamy Brazilian dance
3. Train running without being slowed by track friction
4. Scottish islet on which curling stones are quarried
5. Literary detective played on TV by Rowan Atkinson
6. Administrative division of Russia
7. Pakistan's third-most populated city
8. Term of French origin applied to thinly sliced vegetables
9. Venetian artist born Jacopo Robusti in 1518
10. French mathematician noted for his work on probability
11. Italian author of The Name of the Rose
12. Craft in which pieces of fabric are sewn and overlaid
13. Semiaquatic creature whose British species include the great crested and palmate
14. Flat-topped landform overlooking Cape Town
15. Dry measure equal to one quarter of a bushel
16. Fruit of certain palm trees
17. Central part of a church
18. Lowest-ranking British hereditary title of honour
19. Woodcutter in a One Thousand and One Nights story
20. Traditional Hawaiian floral garland
21. Capital of Malta
22. Winner of a joint-record 82 PGA Tour golf events
23. Actress nominated for seven Oscars but not for her role in Casablanca
24. Inner membrane enclosing an embryonic organism
25. Early 20th-century US-born British sculptor
26. Offspring of the witch Sycorax in a Shakespeare play
27. Sport in which flippers may be used but not an aqualung
28. Charles - Mackintosh, art nouveau designer
29. - guard, unit that protected Roman emperors
30. Adjustable flap on the wing of an aircraft
31. Many stick out for protective gear north of the border
32. Feminist author who has written under the names of Rose Blight in Private Eye and Dr G in Oz
33. Previously silent old lady's stiff and tense
34. Pole at the bottom, catch endless flipping fish
35. African state whose flag has a white star set in blue
36. Wood perhaps one featuring in native story
37. Frees from obligations imposed on others
38. The uppermost and broadest part of the pelvis
39. Mum on edge starts to bring anti-depressants from a part of the kitchen
40. "If you ____ you'll get the job / In last year's trousers and your old school shoes” (Billy Bragg song lyrics)
41. Portions of Brassica rapa on January 25th?
42. Popular Canadian sledges one avoided en route
43. In Jungian theory, a mental image inherited from early ancestors which is part of our collective unconscious
44. "History itself has become a ____” (Baudrillard)
45. Timeless Croatian troubles concerning ministers?
46. Venus when seen in the western sky after sunset
47. French bacteriologist who developed an anthrax vaccine
48. Mammal foremost in trees annually, year after year
49. Fan hears cracking musical releases
50. By city of birth, one such as Christopher Columbus
51. Official nickname of Massachusetts
52. King Arthur's sword, donated by the Lady of the Lake
53. Drums, for instance including exotic tabla
54. Test on NHS reveals veteran's bruise
55. Patna is the capital of this Indian state
56. This Only Fools and Horses character, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, always called Del Boy's brother Dave
57. Scottish actor who played Spud in Trainspotting (1996)
58. Ireland featuring in London museum gallery
59. Writer of something misguided English head of humanities dismissed
60. Things which, according to a wartime slogan, sink ships
61. Film in which a van has more than its doors blown off
62. Morten Harket fronts this palindromic Norwegian band
63. A riveting trip for a cutter
64. Right away, Scottish kid good for game in the street
65. Felix Baumgartner's 2005 descent from this Brazilian statue is claimed as the lowest ever base jump
66. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, _____” (Hamlet)
67. First light rain starts to fall? More than a bit
68. Early grub with turnip or carrot?
69. Part of the Atlantic known for its floating seaweed
70. Very plentiful universal shares bourse floated
71. "I never forget a face, but I'm going to make an ____ in your case” (Groucho Marx)
72. The first American to "walk” in space, in 1965
73. Pipe kept behind bar in vessel
74. Network one's following up in old lighthouse
75. Theodore ____ wrote the 1900 novel Sister Carrie
76. Look on small business to provide part of organ
77. Unusually, a ____ can fly backwards
78. Son of Jephunneh, one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan by Moses in the Bible
79. Lead with choice behind
80. Sandinista Daniel Ortega is president of this country
81. Mark Twain novel featuring Tom Canty as a protagonist
82. Dessert was a failure, lacking depth
83. Seaside town, home to the Turner Contemporary gallery
84. Although it had four wheels, the 1885 ____ Reitwagen is recognised as the first motorcycle
85. Going forth to acquire a book in a commercial style
86. 1947 play in which a proud but penniless widow moves in with her sister and brother-in-law
87. "It is through science that we prove, but through ____ that we discover” (Henri Poincaré)
88. Haji primarily aspires to contain resistance from wives and lovers
89. The creator of an ingenious gentleman of La Mancha
90. NHS notification going around quite wrong? Leads to workplace protesting
91. Fictional kingdom, setting for The Prisoner of Zenda
92. ____ Grande is the highest mountain in the Apennines
93. Edinburgh shows qualified fire fighters right to quit
94. The old track time travelling
95. There are seven ____ in an Olympic softball game
96. 1995 Aardman animation in which Wallace and Gromit seek to stop a sheep-rustling dog named Preston
97. "I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows, I'm ____ now” (The Smiths)
98. Weaverbirds searching endlessly around grassy land
99. More than one rum as if at parties
100. "In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic ____, some people are going to get hurt, [. . .] and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice” (Richard Dawkins)