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eg that of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian militants in October 1985 (6) The celebrated statue at the harbour at Rhodes, built in the third century BC (8) A key US location of the Manhattan Project (1942–46) to develop the world's first atomic bomb (3,6) A south-east Asian city, at one time capital of French Indochina (5) Biblical prophet-priest at the time of Babylonia's capture of Jerusalem, The adventuress involved in the ‘Affair of the Diamond Necklace’ at Louis XVI's court in 1785, Comtesse de ___ ____ (2,5) Acronym used from the 1920s for the official British armed forces canteen provider (5) City in Punjab state, scene of 1919 massacre of unarmed Indian protesters (8) Well-known English dictionary, named after the 19th-century Scottish founders of the publishing firm, brothers William and Robert (8) It was developed as a substitute for silk in the late 19th century (5) Legislation for the relief of the destitute, developed and added to from the 16th century to post-Second World War (4,3) Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's regnal title (7) Heap of stones placed eg over a mountain-top grave (5) Government restriction of food items etc, eg in Britain during the Second World War (9) Orkney location of the Standing Stones and the Ring of Brodgar, which are part of a World Heritage Site (8) A thick, sweet, hot British drink dating from medieval times (6) Renowned German portrait artist, creator of the iconic image of Henry VIII (7) First name of the bank robber, who, with his brother Frank, led one of the most notorious outlaw gangs of the ‘Wild West’ (5) The theology named after a 16th-century French Protestant reformer, brought to Scotland by John Knox (9) The Ten Hours Act (1847) was partly the result of the campaigning work of industrial reformer Richard ____ (7) The ancient script used in Celtic inscriptions on stone monuments (5) The right of asylum in olden times eg within a church or abbey (9) Cornish town, which became a centre for modern development in British art led by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson (2,4) A 19th-century pioneering Egyptologist, author of (6,7) The Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus (9) The supply ship used on Scott's fateful Antarctic expedition of 1910–12 (5,4) ‘Comedy of ____’ (or situation), an old dramatic genre in which intricate conspiracies and stratagems dominate (8) See 9 down It became the dominant Greek city-state after the Peloponnesian War (6) The ‘painted people’ living around AD 300–900 in what is now eastern Scotland (5) Founder and first leader of the Soviet Union (5) An association of merchants or craftsmen, found in great numbers in Europe between the 11th and 16th centuries (5)
