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3. American university where Donna Tartt received her bachelor's degree in classics and philosophy
9. Extravagant style of Western art, architecture, and music from the 1600s to mid-1700s
10. Mexican artist known for her symbolic self-portraits (5,5)
11. A distinct period in history (3)
12. GARDEN
13. Magritte Surrealist painting Ceci n’est pas une ___ (4)
16. 18th-century London name for the discreet meeting places of gay and queer individuals
21. Former King of Huns
22. Animals revered in ancient Egypt and associated with the goddess Bastet (3)
23. Sacred red sandstone monolith in Central Australia (5)
25. First Polynesian man to visit Britain, arriving with Captain Cook’s second voyage
26. family who ruled over Florence and Tuscany from 1434 to 1737

1. Palaeolithic female figurine known as the Venus of ___ (10)
2. Witch of Slavic folklore (4,4)
4. What quoth the raven in Edgar Allan Poe's poem?
5. Medieval manuscript written in an undeciphered script
6. Oalca
7. Stone guardian of Gothic architecture (8)
8. Artist Yayoi Kusama is known for her obsession with this pattern (5,4)
14. Tarot suit associated with communication and logic (6)
15. Ancient city buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE
17. Half-bird, half-woman mythical beings whose voices lured sailors
18. Architect behind Barcelona’s dreamlike, organic architecture
19. Site of a twentieth-century renaissance led by Black artists and intellectuals in New York (6)
20. Psychiatrist who proposed the idea of the collective unconscious
24. Terracotta dynasty