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    Sep 19, 2021 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1616

    Clues across

    1. Depicted in the film Chariots of Fire, which 1924 Olympic gold medallist died in a Japanese internment camp in 1945? (4,7)

    8. Which oblong cream puffs are topped with chocolate? (7)

    9. Which river from a glacier flows through Lake Geneva into France? (5)

    10/11. Canadian singers Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne and Justin Bieber have all had their health, voice and career severely affected by which bacterial illness spread by the bite of a deer tick? (4,7)

    12. What is a pair of things or people? (3)

    13. What is the principal river of NE Spain? (4)

    15. The name of which rock band came off a member’s sister’s sewing machine? (1,1/1,1)

    17. What has types hack, coping and fret? (3)

    19. Where in New Mexico do some people think a

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