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1 Steve ____, martyr for South African black nationalism, killed in police custody in 1977 (4)

3 The three colonies forming the north African region of Tripolitania were Leptis Magna, Oea and ____ (8)

8 Title of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, assassinated in 1914 (8)

9 “Tommy ____” slang for a British Army common soldier, particularly in the First World War (6)

10 Influential 20th-century French fashion designer (4,6)

11 UK charity (initials) founded in 1868 as a society for “Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind” (4)

12 Polish seaport where the trade union Solidarity was founded in 1980 (6)

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