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- 1.Silvery metallic element whose atomic number is 31
- 2.1986 Tony Scott film starring Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
- 3.Popular Serbo-Croatian masculine forename meaning "beloved"
- 4.Formerly, the standard monetary unit of Portugal
- 5.Genus of flowering plants known as catnip or catmint
- 6.Long-tailed rodent of the superfamily Muroidea
- 7.Spanish tennis player who has won 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record 14 French Open titles
- 8.Astronomical observatory in Cheshire whose radio telescope has a steerable parabolic dish
- 9.A member of a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534
- 10.Japanese camera manufacturer founded in Nagano in 1949
- 11.Scorer of one of England's goals in the 1966 World Cup Final
- 12.1861 novel by Ellen Wood whose central character is Lady Isabel Carlyle
- 13.1940 George Cukor film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey
- 14.The American equivalent of a stag night
- 15.Town in the West Bank near Jerusalem that was the birthplace of Jesus
- 16.A chemical substance secreted by an animal which influences the behaviour of others of its species
- 17.Title applied to Indian nobleman and religious teacher Gautama Siddhartha
- 18.All Saints' first UK number one hit single
- 19.1991 Terry Gilliam film starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges
- 20.TV presenting duo whose surnames are McPartlin and Donnelly
- 21.British javelin thrower who set a world record of 89.58m in July 1990
- 22.A golden horse with a cream or white mane and tail
- 23.The act or process of officially proving the authenticity and validity of a will
- 24.Channel 4 sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson
- 25."The face that launched a thousand ships"
- 26.1939 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho Marx plays Attorney J Cheever Loophole
- 27.The national airline of Belgium from 1923 to 2001
- 28.The capital of Azerbaijan
- 29.A protein that is eliminated from the diet in cases of coeliac disease
- 30.Small South American rodent of which the guinea pig is a type
- 31.Fictional collie dog created by Eric Knight in a short story that spawned several films
- 32.Official language of Pakistan
- 33.A minute particle occurring in the blood of vertebrates and involved in clotting
- 34.Game invented by British Army officers stationed in India
- 35.Essex town which contains the sub-district of Bocking
- 36.Rudolf ___, German engineer who invented a type of internal-combustion engine in 1892
- 37.2004 Girls Aloud single that reached number two in the charts
- 38.Leonhard ___, 1707-1783, pre-eminent Swiss mathematician
- 39.Of a triangle, having all sides of unequal length
- 40.A cloth for drying washed crockery, cutlery and glasses
- 41.Pupil, mistress and wife of Abelard
- 42.A jewelled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty
- 43.The simplest aliphatic alcohol
- 44.Egyptian deity whose feminine counterpart was Seshat
- 45.Book of the New Testament between Philemon and James
- 46.A sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed
- 47.Song that gave Nat 'King' Cole and Alvin Stardust top ten hits in 1953 and 1981 respectively
- 48.F W ___, South African president who legalised the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison
- 49.Lioness who scored her first World Cup goal against Australia in the 2023 semi-final
- 50.English seaside resort famous for its tower and illuminations
- 51.Asian plant with aromatic leaves, used as a condiment and in perfumery and folk medicine
- 52.In Greek mythology, a statue of a maiden brought to life by Aphrodite in response to the prayers of the sculptor Pygmalion
- 53.Card game for two played with 32 cards and king high
- 54.Region of France, between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine, famous for its wines
- 55.Ancient Greek primordial deity personifying darkness
- 56.Horse that won the 1999 Derby
- 57.In Greek mythology, a nymph spurned by Narcissus who pined away until only her voice remained
- 58.Mediterranean port city on the northern coastal plain of Israel
- 59.Washington Post journalist who, with Carl Bernstein, did much of the original reporting on the Watergate scandal
- 60.Surname of the brothers in the band Sparks
- 61.Another name for the Furies or the Erinyes in Greek mythology
- 62.The primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara
- 63.Olympic event created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to simulate the experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldier
- 64.The capital of Colombia
- 65.A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain
- 66.American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement
- 67.The capital of Malaysia
- 68.1967 film starring Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares and Bill Bixby
- 69.Rod-shaped bacteria
- 70.The only member of the genus Inachis
- 71.Former Ranger and Scotland goalkeeper who also represented Scotland at cricket
- 72.1999 novel by Benjamin Zephaniah about a boy disfigured in a car crash
- 73.Russian figure skater who was 1988 and 1994 Olympic Pairs champion with Sergei Grinkov
- 74.Member of The Mamas & the Papas who died in 1974
- 75.American singer and actor whose wives included Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens
- 76.Nigerian city that is capital of Oyo state
- 77.Alabama's only port
- 78.The most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibited
- 79.London station opened on 10 January 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan Railway
- 80.Well-known Stanley Holloway monologue written by Marriott Edgar
- 81.Spanish football team that moved to the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in 2017
- 82.Another name for sesame
- 83.The name of Cambodia from 1976 to 1989
- 84.Another word for hara-kiri
- 85.Aquatic salamander of the North American genus Ambystoma
- 86.Brazilian-born footballer who made his debut for Croatia in 2004
- 87.Drink consisting of orange juice and vodka
- 88.A Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea and founded the Hasmonean dynasty
- 89.The most senior regiment of the British Army
- 90.A family of venomous snakes that have hollow, fixed fangs through which they inject venom
- 91.American statesman, scientist and author who invented the lightning conductor
- 92.The largest of the Dodecanese islands
- 93.First film of the "Paul Morrissey Trilogy" produced by Andy Warhol
- 94.The first woman to be named one of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's Cricketers of the Year
- 95.William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudes
- 96.Men's singles champion at Wimbledon in 1975
- 97.Series of cars manufactured by Honda since 1972
- 98.The last line of this classic comedy series was "I'm afraid it's started to rain again"
- 99.The study of handwriting, especially to analyse the writer's character
- 100.1969 memoir by Henri Charrire about his imprisonment at a penal colony in French Guiana
- 101.King of Persia who founded the Persian empire
- 102.A watch chain with a bar at one end for attaching to a buttonhole
- 103.Levy on the profits of a company or other incorporated body
- 104.The highest mountain in Great Britain
- 105.Léo Delibes opera in three acts to a libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille
- 106.The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth
- 107.Crustacean with a small triangular body and very long legs
- 108.A tree of the genus Betula
- 109.In Greek mythology, a gorgon beheaded by Perseus
- 110.The body of all qualified voters
- 111.In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet who was swallowed by a great fish
- 112.The capital of South Australia
- 113.The only golfer in the 20th century to win the Open in three different decades
- 114.The Muse of history
- 115.American golfer who won seven majors, including the 1946 Open
- 116.Insect of the family Lucanidae, the males of which have large branched mandibles
- 117.Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides north-east of Islay
- 118.Rabbi, born in Babylonia, who was president of the Sanhedrin and the first to formulate principles of biblical interpretation
- 119.In cricket, an instance of getting out to one's first ball in both innings of a match
- 120.1923 collection of poetry by Khalil Gibran
- 121.Sultanate whose capital in Muscat
- 122.Surname of the second and sixth presidents of the United States
- 123.District of Hackney whose name is thought to have derived from Deorlaf's tun
- 124.Well-known seduction poem by John Donne
- 125.In the book of Genesis, the second son of Jacob and Zilpah
- 126.In Greek mythology, a statue of a maiden brought to life by Aphrodite in response to the prayers of the sculptor Pygmalion
- 127.Marxist revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution
- 128.1989 film telling the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War
- 129.English synthpop duo comprising songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell
- 130.French for "three"
- 131.Colour with the chemical formula CoAl2O4
- 132.A supposed descendant of the son of Abraham and Hagar
- 133.Fencing sword similar to the foil but with a larger guard and a heavier blade
- 134.Pop group whose members include Gary Barlow and Mark Owen
- 135.1980 Robert Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden
- 136.Cathedral city in Devon
- 137.The Muse of love poetry
- 138.Large fast-running flightless bird inhabiting the open plains of South America
- 139.Town on the Isle of Man that is home to the island's only cathedral
- 140.Bass guitarist in The Beatles
- 141.1988 film about a clique at a fictional Ohio high school starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
- 142.Two one-act plays by Sir Terence Rattigan set at the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth
- 143.The second brightest star in Perseus
- 144.Canadian province whose capital is Regina
- 145.The county town of Fingal in the Republic of Ireland
- 146.1972 album by The Allman Brothers Band that was the last to feature Duane Allman
- 147.2009 James Cameron film set on Pandora
- 148.Glandular organ situated below the thyroid that atrophies with age and is almost nonexistent in adults
- 149.African country whose capital is Ouagadougou
- 150.George ___, English painter noted for his pictures of horses