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    Mar 22, 2020 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1564

    Clues across

    1. A lubber line is a direction mark on what? (7)

    4. Which bear appeared in The Beano from 1948 to 1999? (5)

    7. Usually literary, what is a small island or peninsula? (4)

    8. Which New Zealand pulp and paper mill was named after a paper mill on the Water of Leith, Scotland? (8)

    10. “I met a traveller from an antique land” is the opening line of which poem by Percy Shelley? (10)

    12. What name for a duckshooter’s hide is a corruption of an Australian Aboriginal word for shelter? (6)

    13. What do you want if you request a pomodoro in Italy? (6)

    15. Duran Duran, the Moody Blues, Traffic, Dexys Midnight Runners, Musical Youth, ELO, UB40, Fine Young Cannibals, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath are all

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