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