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1 Great Ormond Street. 2 Frankfurt.

3 Babylon.

4 Burt Bacharach. 5 Kazakhstan, Mongolia and

North Korea.

6 Sumo wrestling. 7 Derby.

8 The Wolf of Wall Street. 9 Glass artists and designers. 10 Originators of early Christian heresies.

11 Main mosquitoborne diseases.

12 Po:

Po in Teletubbies;

Po in Kung Fu Panda; Po River flows through; Po(lonium) atomic number.

13 Englishmen who have played for Real Madrid football club.

14 Location of US presidential assassinations.

15 Founded cryptocurrencies: bitcoin; ethereum; akoin.

Across

6 Ancient Israelite of immense strength? (6) 7 See 13 8 Woodwind instrument (4) 9 Andy ........, host of Radio 4’s The News Quiz (8) 10 Slang term for a vasectomy (4) 12 Type of tea in which the leaves are partially oxidised (6) 14 The Saudi capital (6) 15 Channel Island east of Guernsey (4) 17 Venus and Serena ........, tennis champions (8) 19 Programming language – or an island in Indonesia (4) 20 Grant ......, secretary of state for energy security and net zero (6) 21 ...... von der Leyen, president of the European Commission (6)

Down

1/12 Instrument with which 6 slew a thousand men? (7,2,2,3) 2 Arthur...., Wimbledon champion (4) 3 1998 animated movie for adults starring Woody Allen and Sharon Stone (4) 4 Where American football players score touchdowns? (3,5) 5 ..... Draper, character in Mad Men played by Jessica Paré (5) 7 Hey There ......., 2006 song by the Plain White T’s (7) 11 See 19D 12 See 1 13/16/7A How RL Stevenson described his 1878 journey through the Cévennes? (7,4,1,6) 18 Whom characters in Breaking Bad had learned to call? (4) 19/11 Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley (4,8)