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1‘The Monument’, near London Bridge, commemorates this event, which destroyed most of the City of London in 1666 (5,4)

6 ___ von Bismarck, the 19th-century chancellor and prime minister of Germany (4)

10 The battle of ___ (3 September 1650) was a decisive victory for Cromwell’s troops over the Scottish army (6)

11/12 English traveller and administrator who, with T E Lawrence, helped put Faisal I on the throne of Iraq (8,4)

13 Maria ___, Italian physician who developed a 20th-century international system of education that harnessed children’s creative potential (10)

14 Scottish outlaw (1671–1734), fictionalised by Sir Walter Scott as a romantic hero (3,3)

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