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Weapon, such as the Springfield named after the Massachusetts city (5) Town of central France, named after the Lemovices, a Gallic tribe (7) 20th-century ‘chanteuse' who began as a street singer in Paris, later achieving international fame (5,4) A colleague (later a rival) of Sir Richard Burton in the quest for the source of the Nile (5) Surname of chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, historian and TV presenter First Russian leader to be elected by popular vote (7) John ____, English lawyer who played a leading role in the trial of Charles I (5) Portuguese king whose sister, Catherine of Braganza, became Queen of England on marrying Charles II (5,2) Empire centred around Anatolia; it is now thought a major cause of its collapse around 1200 BC was a three-year period of drought (7) This island resisted the Ottoman empire's siege, May–September 1565 (5) US-supported opposition to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 1980s (7) Pirate or privateer, particularly one of those active along the Barbary Coast (7) British artist whose vibrant optical pattern paintings have made her a leading exponent of Op Art (5) Massachusetts location of the opening shots of the American War of Independence (9) Supernatural practice, traditionally regarded as malevolent (7) Ellen ____, outstanding English stage performer, who had a “paper courtship” with George Bernard Shaw (5)
