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    PRIZE CROSSWORD

    Oct 01, 2020 4 minutes
    Compiled by Eddie James

    Across

    7 This island, named ‘bearded ones’ by early European visitors, gained its independence, and Commonwealth status, on 30 November 1966 (8)

    8 Martha______, the choreographer who revolutionised dance in the United States and abroad, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 (6)

    11 An ethnic people (and their language) of eastern areas of India, numbering several million (5)

    12 US filmmakers started arriving here in the early 20th century, to escape rules imposed by the Motion Picture Patents Company (9)

    13 Also known as the New Stone Age (9)

    15 An adherent (such as Emperor Marcus Aurelius) of the philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in the third century BC (5)

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