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1/39 Nickname of legendary frontierswoman buried next to Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota (8,4)

5 In 1986, a USSR–US summit meeting here failed to produce the hoped-for arms limitation agreement but was considered a Cold War turning point (9)

11 SOE agent, codename Madeleine, the first female radio operator to be sent into Nazi-occupied France (4,6,4)

12 Earliest settlers of Hokkaido, largely displaced from their traditional lands by Japan during the 19th century (4)

13 ___ III, 15th-century ruler of Wallachia, thought to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula (4)

14 Margaret Thatcher's surname at birth (7)

15 An amphitheatre's central area (5)

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