CRYPTIC CLIO

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Across
  1. 1. Sherlock’s pipe filler of choice, war between China and Britain
  2. 4. switch out a consonant to make a big spider, region of Henry’s first wife.
  3. 6. time is melting away! Surrealist painter
  4. 9. flower gambling, Harry and Megan’s daughter
  5. 11. American divorcée and yellow cartoon family. Brought about abdication
  6. 12. used to make things slippy, once and ancient power house faced an economic crisis in early 2000s
  7. 13. scientists declare breakthrough on genetically engineered animal, would ewe believe that. Name please?
  8. 15. outlived by cabbage, job was the opposite of morning
Down
  1. 2. pasta type, first antibiotic
  2. 3. what you ideally want a lot of in an exam, original man in red
  3. 5. likes to ask questions persistently, Spaniards abroad in Latin America
  4. 7. question word prefix, politically fluctuating inter-war era nation
  5. 8. bony fish, first female first minister
  6. 10. paradoxical country, discovered by homophone of large dog breed
  7. 14. parallel amusement and segregation activist