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    PRIZE CROSSWORD

    Apr 14, 2022 4 minutes
    Compiled by Eddie James
    By Giles Tremlett

    Across

    1 Liberal politician, one-time prime minister whose position on eg Irish Home Rule later kept him out of the Liberal government (8)

    5 Vasco Nunez de, _____, the conquistador and leader of the first European expedition to reach the Pacific from the New World (6)

    10/23 Historian, BBC History Magazine contributor and author of Elizabeth’s Women (5,6)

    11 The wing commander who led the 617 Squadron on the “Dam Busters” raid in 1943 (3,6)

    12 Ernest Shackleton’s ship, crushed by ice on his 1914-16 Antarctic expedition (9)

    13 Great _____, the migration undertaken by Afrikaners escaping British control in South Africa (4)

    John _____, the English Catholic martyr

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