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Dance craze of the early 1960s (6)  City in Austria, known for its rich musical heritage (6)  African-Roman playwright of the second century BC (7)  See 12 across  Country of Central America, independent since 1824 (2,8)  Notorious court of 17th-century England (4,7)  Biblical site of a tower “whose top may reach unto heaven” (5)  Historic district of inner-city Manchester (4,4)  Site of a 1704 battle in the War  1966 film starring Michael Caine (5)  Work by Ann Griffiths, Charles Wesley or Sabine Baring-Gould, perhaps (4)  First ‘garden city’ in England, built in the early 1900s (10)  Denis ___ (1713–84), French Encyclopédiste (7)  See 2 Down  Saudi capital since 1823 (6)  City of northwest Spain, reputedly founded in AD 761 (6)

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