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    PRIZE CROSSWORD

    Apr 15, 2021 4 minutes

    Across

    1 Semi-legendary king of the Britons who enlisted the aid of Hengist and Horsa to protect his land against the Picts and Scots (9)

    6 For example, the military one that seized power in Argentina in 1976 (5)

    10 The statesman Pericles played a vital part in making this city the political and cultural centre of Greece (6)

    11 A London club and a theatre were named after this 18th-century actor-manager (7)

    12 Last name of the Russian-born American writer and philosopher who gained fame with her novel The Fountainhead (1943) (4)

    British aviator, famous for her solo flight to Australia, who died on a 1941 mission for

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