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Crossword no 237

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Tyneside industrialist raised to the peerage in 1887 who had his rural retreat at Cragside near Rothbury (9)Historic market town in Surrey, at the foot of the North Downs (7) One of Shakespeare’s tragedies (7) Resort and fishing port at the mouth Edmund _______, Elizabethan poet who wrote (7) Fencing weapon (5) _______ (Beatrix Potter story) (5) _______ Mote, medieval moated manor house near Sevenoaks in Kent (7) Mendicant preacher (5) Arthur _______, author who lived at Hill Top near Haverthwaite in Cumbria (7)

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