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6 Essex village which in 1947 became one of the UK’s first New Towns (6)

8/24 His assassination on 28 June 1914 had catastrophic consequences (8,9)

10 The cathedral in which Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 (5-4)

11 Sixth-century BC ruler of Persia, founder of the Achaemenid empire, ___ the Great (5)

12 Regiments of native South Africans, such as those deployed by Shaka (plural form) (5)

14 A West Country tin-mining area, granted its own jurisdiction (8)

15 First-century AD Vietnamese heroines, who led the first independence movement against the occupying Chinese (3,5,7)

British legislation of 1765, made unenforceable