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1. Interim capital of Pakistan, 1957-65
2. Piece of cotton used in medical procedures
3. Caribbean island that forms a country with Nevis
4. Joan -, surrealist painter born in Barcelona
5. One of the two basic lifts performed in Olympic weightlifting
6. Regular opinion column in this newspaper
7. Lofty nest of an eagle
8. Willow tree or one of its branches used in basket-making
9. Early 20th-century form of jazz
10. Unique identifier displayed in the periodic table of elements
11. Supreme Norse god
12. Classical venue for chariot races
13. Film musical about a group of aspiring performers
14. Instrumental piece played between the sections of an opera
15. Flower adopted as a symbol by the Tudors
16. David -, eight-time winner of the London Marathon wheelchair race
17. Dickens novel featuring the characters Arthur Clennam and Jeremiah Flintwinch
18. Balearic island known for its nightlife
19. Old-fashioned type of computer printer
20. Alternative name for a Carmelite monk
21. Ian Dury's backing band
22. Latin phrase: subject to final approval of details
23. Russian count who gave his name to a beef dish
24. Part of a concert hall occupied by the crowd
25. Official flag of the British Merchant Navy
26. Tree of the genus Acer
27. Polish city, birthplace of the pianist Artur Rubinstein
28. - of Elea, Ancient Greek formulator of paradoxes
29. 2019 World Cup-winning captain
30. 2019 World Cup-winning captain
31. City incorporated with Jaffa in 1950
32. Thick cut of beef fillet steak, usually serving two people
33. Wader with a long horizontally flattened beak
34. Informally, a Radio 4 comedy show first broadcast in 1978
35. France's Opal coast is in this department
36. An outgoing, socially confident person
37. Tree of the Caledonian forest, also seen in EH Shepard's illustrations in Winnie the Pooh
38. Technology firm based in Mountain View, California
39. "That fellow seems to me to possess but one ____, and that is a wrong one” (Samuel Johnson)
40. & 32A: Irish novelist who wrote Tara Road
41. Outer markings on a tennis court
42. Lippo ____, quattrocentro artist who painted Madonna and Child Enthroned
43. Vishnu avatar, often depicted with a bow and arrow
44. See 24A
45. Members of a Protestant Church originating in 1772 as a revival of the Bohemian Brethren
46. Home ground of Warwickshire County Cricket Club
47. Area of late 19th and early 20th-century popular music publishing, around New York's West 28th Street
48. The ____ suit, late 19th century dress for children, was inspired by Reginald B Birch's illustrations in a novel
49. Six ____ is 720
50. Round Table seat kept for the knight who would succeed in the quest for the Grail, fatal to others who sat in it
51. Standard monetary unit of Honduras
52. Lady Tremaine is Cinderella's ____
53. In their six matches against England, ____'s national football team drew with them three times, then lost three times
54. Foxes and rabbits may be squatters in these homes
55. Largest US national park, mostly in northwest Wyoming
56. Michael Le Vell's character in Coronation Street
57. Plant native to southern Europe, with finely divided leaves, also known as the fennelflower
58. In Germany this is called Krankenstand
59. Blissfully happy — "superlunary” apparently
60. Lake ____ is the largest lying wholly in Switzerland
61. Aircraft or anti-aircraft cannon, named after the Zurich district where it was made
62. From ____ Town Pier, the world's oldest surviving cast iron pier, you can catch a ferry to Tilbury
63. Point where a leaf or twig is attached to a stem
64. Denmark's second largest city, European Capital of Culture in 2017, along with Paphos in Cyprus
65. Composer of the ballet Agon, first performed in 1957
66. The first Patricia Cornwell novel featuring Kay Scarpetta
67. Cricket fielding position between the slips and point
68. Actress who plays Fleabag's godmother
69. Quite the opposite across the Channel
70. The model of chivalry in Arthurian romance
71. Former marine industry which was physically taxing and dangerous for its main workers
72. The last Cambridge college to admit women, in 1988
73. Capacity for rational, especially highly developed, thought
74. The Russell-Einstein ____ of 1955 led to the peace-seeking Pugwash Conferences
75. German city, nicknamed "Quadratestadt”, as its streets are laid out in a grid pattern
76. Forename of Lautner, Momsen or Swift
77. A grassy treeless plain in South America
78. "River Thames or ____” say OS maps, for stretches above Dorchester
79. Pretending to carry costly weapon
80. Latest Sun delivery at last for Baltimore paperboy
81. Cinema club's half missing the most exciting part
82. Clay court initially coarse, start of play put off
83. Wrong thing for arousal — take right off!
84. Direct Scottish broadcast beginning on TV
85. Too lax at sea to catch large amphibian
86. Perhaps Henry's marine fish, not bass
87. Dash to independent college concerned with doctrine of purpose
88. Exact opposite's pointed out in two different articles
89. Rob once a governor Head ignored
90. Carpet fully woven band of fabric
91. Not all discotheque menfolk repelled fast Aussie bird
92. Cantor lit up singers
93. One who's present upset about carer finishing early
94. Hidden in wilderness? Yes!
95. Exercises? Yes, reduced weight once
96. Leading journalist associated with declining circulation
97. Offence on Henry one concerning Sri Lankan
98. Langer's article covers golf irons
99. Sound of body after divorcee gets discharge
100. Official proceedings given by player on the radio