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- 3. Basil ------- local poet: his father was a doctor in Scotswood (7)
- 6. Name of main library in Newcastle before today's City Library (7)
- 7. "hen steps on" (anagram): local industrialist who paid for Elswick Library to be built (10)
- 8. Famous film based on a novel called "Jack's Return Home" about a London-based gangster coming back home to Newcastle to avenge his brother's death (3,6)
- 11. Cinema that used to stand on the site of today's West End Library (8)
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- 1. Abbreviated name of library near Central Station: oldest independent library outside London, founded in 1793 (3,3,4)
- 2. Road where today's West End Library stands: named after nearby Roman fort (9)
- 4. Sister paper of Evening Chronicle and Journal, founded 1919: It shines at weekends? (6,3)
- 5. "rave" (anagram): main character in Ann Cleeve's novels based in the north east - and now a TV series (4)
- 6. Scottish-born philanthropist who paid for the original Benwell Library on Atkinson Road: name given to building after the library closed (8)
- 9. Novelist born into poverty in South Shields: wrote at least a hundred books (7)
- 10. Does this northern newspaper bounce the sound of the news back to you? (4)