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- 1.Lawrence __, author of the Matt Scudder novels
- 2.Treasury minister who resigned in 2010 during the parliamentary expenses scandal
- 3.Cornish town, once a centre of copper mining
- 4.Prisoner chosen for pardon instead of Jesus
- 5.The Greek god of love
- 6.Alan __, actor who won an Oscar for his role in Little Miss Sunshine
- 7.The capital of Chad
- 8.Name chosen thus far by 12 popes
- 9.Sir John __, composer of The Protecting Veil (1988)
- 10.Energy minister who resigned in 2012 after perverting the course of justice
- 11.__ Building, art deco skyscraper on 42nd Street, New York
- 12.Ellis __, pseudonym of Emily Brontë
- 13.Island state in the Indian Ocean
- 14.The largest Christian church
- 15.Gianni __, Italian designer
- 16.A dense black hardwood
- 17.Maisie __ comedian
- 18.__ Pound, modernist pioneer
- 19.Epic poem by William Blake, which includes what is now known as Jerusalem
- 20.The capital of Croatia
- 21.The __, 2017 movie starring Glenn Close
- 22.Erotic poem by John Donne based on an unlikely conceit
- 23.Hindu goddess of wealth
- 24.The youngest man to play test cricket for England
- 25.Country bordered by Ethiopia and South Sudan
- 26.A ceremonial county in England - or an island in Donegal
- 27.Meredith __, fictional doctor in her eponymous 3
- 28.A resident of Aden?
- 29.An Ed Sheeran song - or a Schwarzenegger movie?
- 30.Patrick __, manager of Crystal Palace
- 31.Index tracking the share price of the top 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange
- 32.Branch of biology concerned with the structure of the body
- 33.Cricketer whose allegations of racism led to changes at Yorkshire CCC
- 34.US state bordered by Oregon and Arizona
- 35.Elena __, character played by Nina Dobrev in The Vampire Diaries
- 36.Bond 24?
- 37.__ Jones, fictional diarist
- 38.Area of Manhattan north of Central Park
- 39.The number of players in a field hockey team
- 40.Henry __, surgeon known for his eponymous 3
- 41.The __, 2022 comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson
- 42.Mason __, England footballer
- 43.__ Prabang, Laotian city on the Mekong River
- 44.What baseball players wear on their catching hand?
- 45.Cave in Rome where Romulus and Remus were said to have been raised
- 46.Charlie Chaplin film from 1925
- 47.Controversial South African / British athlete who competed at the 1984 Olympics
- 48.The longest river in the United States
- 49.The __, 2022 film telling the stories of June and Jennifer Gibbons
- 50.__ Beach, where Ian McEwan set his 2007 novel
- 51.The __, independent traders and residents of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham?
- 52.2008 comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson
- 53.The right word at the right time?
- 54.2022 film about a daughter and her father, directed by Charlotte Wells
- 55.What Paul Torday fished for in the Yemen?
- 56.Portmanteau term for a variety of small motorcycles
- 57.Danny __, actor who played Mick Carter in EastEnders
- 58.Arthur __, a 1975 Wimbledon champion
- 59.Moment of high tension towards the end of a sporting contest
- 60.US teen drama series starring Ben McKenzie
- 61.Gordian __, a seemingly unsolveable puzzle
- 62.Irish stout whose Storehouse is a Dublin tourist attraction
- 63.__ ball, technique used by fast bowlers to slow the ball
- 64.Host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup
- 65.__ Cook, artist known for her comic paintings of English life
- 66.Neologism used to describe England's style of cricket under Ben Stokes
- 67.Night club security personnel
- 68.Wine producing great granddaughter of Dionysus in Greek mythology
- 69.The Bluegrass State?
- 70.Melodies favoured by those bowling 20?
- 71.Ball in cricket which turns unexpectedly
- 72.US political conspiracy movement
- 73.The capital of Rwanda
- 74.Russian word for "peace" and "world"
- 75.Declaration of __, letter written to Pope John XXII in defence of King Robert
- 76.The capital of the Bahamas
- 77.Bob Marley and the Wailers album from 1977
- 78.Television presenter who has hosted Match of the Day, Countdown and Have I Got News For You
- 79.Film genre based on hardboiled crime fiction
- 80.Geographic region that includes Borneo, Australia and Micronesia
- 81.A kind of cold sea mist
- 82.Elmore Leonard's sequel to Get Shorty
- 83.Truman __, author of Breakfast at Tiffany's
- 84.River crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC - and many politicians since
- 85.Brazilian president re-elected after being imprisoned in 2017
- 86.Kay and Philip K __, authors
- 87.Boris __, British leader deposed in 2022
- 88.Paul-Henri Sandaogo __, leader deposed in Burkina Faso in 2022
- 89.Sally __, character played by Liza Minnelli in Cabaret (1972)
- 90.Member of a faith likely to be found in a gurdwara
- 91.Matt __, Tory MP who lost the whip in 2022
- 92.Michelle __, baroness who lost the Tory whip in 2022
- 93.US politician who announced she is stepping down after 25 years in Congress
- 94.Indian city , the capital of Madhya Pradesh
- 95.Pedro __, Peruvian president forced from office in 2022
- 96.__ Muntz, Simpson's character known for his trademark "ha-ha"
- 97.By product of digestion; high levels are associated with gout
- 98.Jeremy __, MP who lost the Labour whip in 2020
- 99.Julian __, MP who lost the Tory whip in 2022
- 100.Thandiwe __, actor who played DCI Roz Huntley in Line of Duty
- 101.__ Come Home, 1966 drama about homelessness
- 102.Large deer - or a US fraternal society
- 103.Madonna hit from 1984
- 104.Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet
- 105.A citizen from Tblisi or one of a number of early 20th century English poets?
- 106.20 __, Madonna hit from 1989
- 107._ Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
- 108.Bird related to guillemots and puffins
- 109.The fictional city in which Ed McBain set his 87th Precinct novels
- 110.Chris __, boxer
- 111.Dostoevsky novel telling the story of Prince Myshkin
- 112.Military alliance headquartered in Brussels
- 113.Where Philip Larkin made his home
- 114.Swiss physicist
- 115.Country whose cities include Timbuktu
- 116.Thameside town, home to an annual Royal Regatta
- 117.Waterfall at the border between Ontario and New York
- 118.T.S, __, author of The Waste Land
- 119.The patron of beggars?
- 120.Movie franchise starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker
- 121.Ronan __, musician and radio host
- 122.Madonna hit from 1986
- 123.Madonna hit from 1984
- 124.Chief __, Elon Musk's adopted nickname
- 125.Antediluvian patriarch who lived to be nearly 1000?
- 126.England wicketkeeper
- 127.French city on the Tarn, home to the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
- 128.Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 129.A series of petitions during a church service
- 130.Country bordered by Nigeria and Togo
- 131.Shaquille __, basketball star
- 132.Larkin poem which begins, "I work all day, and get half-drunk at night."
- 133.Where Parisian intellectuals hang out?
- 134.The __, 1976 horror movie starring Lee Remick and Gregory Peck
- 135.Aromatic shrub sometimes used to signify remembrance
- 136.Proof-reader's instruction to leave a text as it is
- 137.Time for 2 in France?
- 138.Norway's traditional gift to the UK each December?
- 139.Benjamin Zephaniah's poem about birds that "just wanna play reggae"
- 140.Arthur __, credited with creating the first crossword in 1913
- 141.What, according to Clement Clarke Moore, wasn't stirring all through the house?
- 142.Largest of the Canary Islands
- 143.One knight of the Round Table
- 144.Time for 2 in Portugal?
- 145.Paradise, before the Fall?
- 146.Kipling poem, once voted the nation's favourite
- 147.Chinua Achebe's debut novel (1958)
- 148.French city or an NHS advisory body in England and Wales
- 149.The youngest of the Little Women?
- 150.Epic poem by Virgil