Torias Christmas Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Opera commissioned for opening of Suez Canal (4)
  2. 5. one of humankins greatest inventions (5)
  3. 7. Commander at Actium (6,9,7)
  4. 8. Anthony,Octavian and... a triumvir (7)
  5. 11. Lincolns' assassin(4,6,5)
  6. 13. City at one end of Roman Fosse Way (English)(6)
  7. 14. Unit of weight gfor Hebrews,Greeks, Romans (6)
  8. 15. Purportedly first to stab Ceasar (5)
  9. 17. Ended with Carthage destroyed (5,4)
  10. 20. Vespasian appointee as Gov Britain (8)
  11. 22. Final period of the Stone Age (9)
  12. 23. A name for combined southern states of USA (5)
  13. 24. Greek who married Jackie Kennedy (9,7)
  14. 25. Figurative boundary between N/S USA (5,5,4)
Down
  1. 1. A daughter of the git Sulla a twin (8,6)
  2. 2. Original company name for ASDA (10,7)
  3. 3. Sicilian port founded by Greeks as Zankle (7)
  4. 4. Tribal member from bits of Greece/Turkey/Bulgaria (8)
  5. 6. Greatest Linebacker ever, one of us? (8,6)
  6. 9. Second husband of 21 across (5,6,4)
  7. 10. Alfred, Swedish inventor of dynamite (5)
  8. 12. Eastern England tribe led by Boudicca (5)
  9. 16. The great way from Rome to Brundisium (3,5)
  10. 18. Pocahontas confidente (11,6)
  11. 19. Greek city allied with Sparta against Athens (7)
  12. 21. Ancient Assyrian capital sacked 612BC (7)
  13. 26. Supposed Archimedes exclamation (6)