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Tsarina Alexandra – who was her mother? (see 6/26 down)
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8 The most famous ship with this name was the one on which Charles Darwin sailed (1831–36) (3,6) 10/1 Sixth-century BC Persian leader, founder of the Achaemenid empire, stretching from the near east to the Indus river (5,3,5) 11 Political activist and guerrilla warfare leader, captured and executed in Bolivia in 1967 (7) 12 10th-century king of England who regained the Midlands and Northumbria from the Norse kings (6,1) 13 The most south-western fortified settlement of Roman Britain (6) 14 Former ‘county’ of northern Europe, name thought to mean ‘flooded land’, which started to flourish in the ninth century AD (8) 16/22 across/4 A cossack and peasant revolt of 1773– 75 led by a man claiming to be Peter III (who had been deposed by his wife, Catherine the Great) (3,8,9) 18 City, founded by Seleucus I Nicator, which has been called the ‘cradle of Christianity’ (7) 20 Short-lived British political party founded by the ‘Gang of Four’ in 1981 (3) 22 See 16 across. 24 Palestinian leader and joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize (6) 27 The site of this major Greek city of Ionian Asia Minor is now in Turkey (7) 28 Treaties were negotiated here in Switzerland in October 1925 to secure a post-First World War peace settlement (7) 29 An associate of Freud who pioneered psychoanalysis and coined the term ‘inferiority complex’ (5) 30 16th-century German-Swiss physician Paracelsus was a famous one (9)
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1 See 10 across. 2 Irish president whose failed opposition to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty led to his resignation in 1922 (2,6)
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3 Ancient alphabetic script used in Irish and Pictish inscriptions on stone monuments (5) 4 See 16 across. 5 Occupation which, as a small-scale operation, died out with the advent of domestic refrigerators in the mid-20th century (6) 6/26 Daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of Tsarina Alexandra (8,5) 7 Decoy boats introduced by the British and French navies in 1914 to lure and sink German U-boats (1-5) 9 19th-century British explorer, the colleague then rival of Richard Burton in the quest for the source of the Nile (5) 15 He was king over the England he united in the 10th century (9) 17 Site of the first battle of the Civil War in England, fought – inconclusively – in October 1642 (8) 19 The Greek name for the son of Zeus and Alcmene (8) 21 West Sussex location of the country house associated with the Percy family and with the painter JMW Turner (8) 22 Common name for a ready-made house assembled on site, popular in post-Second World War Britain (6)
23 Revolutionary leader who served as prime minister and later president of his country between 1959 and 2008 (6) 25 Language descended from old Persian (5) 26 See 6 down. Compiled by Eddie James
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