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QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

Puzzle No 1575

Clues across

1. Which Mozart opera premiered in Prague in 1787? (3,8)

8. What disease of children is caused by vitamin D deficiency? (7) was to cool the blood? (5)

10. Here with Me and White Flag are hit songs of which English singer-songwriter? (4)

11. What muesli-like food is popular in the US? (7)

12. What is to end a competition with the same score as someone else? (3)

13. What word can follow short, new, shock? (4)

15. What is a short spur from the trunk of a tree? (4)

17. What extinct bird is Dinornis robustus? (3)

19/20. On television from 1975 to 1983, which soap opera was set in Wellington? (5,2,4)

23. More than 90 songs or tunes from the 1950s have what word in their title? (5)

24. Which strike aircraft was used by the RAF from

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