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Anthony ____, who painted the famous triple portrait of Charles I (1635/36) (3,4)  The island on which Columbus and his crew were stranded for a year, 1503/04 (7)  In Roman terms, the time of the month when Julius Caesar was assassinated (4)  Originally the boundary between the US's southern slave states and northern ‘free' states, named after its surveyors (5-5,4)  Pietro ____, Italian artist who did  Term, named after a biblical character, applied to the selling of (eg) holy orders by the church (6)  Region of India that, in part, became part of Pakistan after partition and then, in 1971, Bangladesh (6)  Ancient Chinese text, ‘Book of Changes' used for divination (1,5)  James ____, an American folk hero, frontiersman who died in the battle of the Alamo (1836) (5)  Another name for a lasso, adapted from the Spanish/Mexican (6)  In 1216, King John died in the castle of this Trentside town (6)  A medieval historian who created brief chronological lists of events (8)  Austrian statesman, a dominant figure for more than 30 years in European affairs of the first half of the 19th-century (10)  See 10 across  Russian-born US writer whose philosophy, ‘objectivism', was popularised in her books (1943) and (1957) (3,4)  Rudolf ____, late 19th-century German inventor of a high efficiency engine named after him (6)

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