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7 The dictator of this African country was overthrown in 1979, after eight years of brutal misrule (6)

9 A professional musician or other entertainer in medieval Europe, attached to a court or, more likely, travelling widely (8)

11 This township, under siege by the Boers, along with Kimberley and Mafeking, was finally relieved by British forces in 1900 (9)

12 British social reformer, ____Besant, early advocate of birth control and campaigner for Indian independence (5)

13 Popular game, said to have been first played by British soldiers in 19th-century India, as a variation of the 15-ball “Pyramids” (7)

The only surviving child of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, who became the first