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Crossword no 239

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Children’s game using lines marked on the ground (9) Forest in East Sussex that once covered most of south-east England (7) Spa town in Worcestershire (7) Old gold coin worth approximately one third of a pound (5) They tend flocks (9) Market town in Hertfordshire (7) Tax formerly taken for the support of the Church and clergy (5) Empress of _____, title assumed by Queen Victoria in 1876 (5) Village on the River Tyne near Hexham in Northumberland (9) Elizabeth _____, heroine of Jane Austen’s (7) Kentish country town near Romney Marsh (9)

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