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She remains a notorious character in popular culture, despite being acquitted of the 1892 murder of her stepmother and father in Massachusetts (6,6) British name of the South African town, which Cetshwayo, king of the Zulu, made his new capital in 1873 (6) Popular name for an illicit liquor bar during the Prohibition era (9) He is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland around the fifth century (2,7) Legendary warrior-poet of Irish literature, thought to be mostly an 18th-century invention (6) In Mesopotamian religion, the god of the moon (also known as Nanna) (3) Stephen ____, whose appointment as archbishop of Canterbury played a big Abbreviation of the sonar system developed by America in the mid-20th century to track Soviet submarines (5) Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in this town’s gaol from 1895–97 (7) Now an African Democratic Republic, it was once seen by Leopold II of Belgium as his private property (5) Janusz ____, the Jewish head of a Warsaw orphanage, who was transported with the children and staff to Treblinka in 1942 (7) One such as John Wilkes Booth (1865) or Gavrilo Princip (1914) (8) One of the legendary brothers who led the first Anglo-Saxon settlers to arrive in Britain (5) First name of probably Britain’s most famous naval commander (7) A member of the Germanic tribe who settled in eastern England in the fifth century (5) A role of Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and others in 1944 (7) Protestant paramilitary organisation founded in Northern Ireland in the 1960s (3) It became, controversially, an autonomous region of China in 1965 (5) Name given to the members of the body formed in 1310 to limit Edward II’s power (9) The longest-serving Israeli PM since that country’s independence (9) Major ninth-century BC Hebrew prophet who led the opposition to worship of the god Baal (6) Building used by members of the fraternal organisation evolving from certain medieval guilds (7,5)
