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7 City state destroyed in 146 BC by Roman general Lucius Mummius in the process of defeating the Achaean League (7)

8 The ____ Diamond, named in honour of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne (7)

9 English railway pioneer, George ____ and his bridge-builder son, Robert (10)

11 President, later king of Albania, during whose reign the country came to be dominated by Mussolini’s Italy (3)

12 A former secretary-general of the UN who became embroiled in controversy when running for the presidency of Austria (8)

____ Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist, who became temporary leader of the Nazi movement

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