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8 Native American leader, said to have helped found the confederacy of the “Five Nations” of the Iroquois (8)

9 Celebrated document of 1215, subjecting the English king to the rule of law (5,5)

12 Surname of American writer and eccentric; her Paris home was a salon for leading writers and artists between the two world wars (5)

13 Ancient land in what is now north-east Iran, where an empire, lasting about 500 years, was founded by Arsaces I (7)

14 A colleague (and later rival) of Richard Burton in the quest for the source of 43 down (5)

15 Roman literary patron remembered for his correspondence with Cicero (7)

Name, adopted in 1984, of the landlocked west African country that gained full independence from

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