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5 One of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century, whose name means “the Bringer of Light” (2,3,4)

8 The New------Army, formed in 1645, won the Civil War for the Parliamentarians (5)

10 Indian state that was under Portuguese control for more than four centuries until being annexed by India in the 1960s (3)

11 Protests at discrimination against African-Americans, and resistance to Apartheid in South Africa, are just two of the movements to secure these (5,6)

12 Ruler of Thebes in the Oedipus legend (5)

13 Barbara, ------ 20th-century American Pulitzer prize-winning popular historian (7)

16 Surname of a much-romanticised English highwayman, hanged near York in 1739 (6)

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