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1 Native American people who first settled the Ottawa Valley of present-day Quebec (9)

6 Its nuclear nature was demonstrated by the early 20th-century “gold foil experiment” of Ernest Rutherford and colleagues (4)

10 Leopold von ____, 19th-century German historian noted for his scholarly method (5)

11 A traditionally controversial system of basing people’s entitlement to state-funded services on their personal resources (5,4)

12 Policy of easing import and export restrictions, as favoured by economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo (4,5)

13 The Romans called this country Arabia Felix, owing to its fertility and dominant commercial location (5)

London coffee house patronised by shipowners and financiers, giving its name to

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