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Across
  1. 1. Supercilious aunt of Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice 4,8,2,6
  2. 4. To whom is the Acropolis’s Parthenon dedicated? 6
  3. 6. Voice of Paddington Bear 3,6
  4. 7. Hey little girl is your _____ ____. I’m on Fire, Bruce Springsteen 5,4
  5. 9. Glastonbury 2023 Saturday night headliner 4,1,5
  6. 13. What connects: George Michael, Dean Martin, Charlie Chaplin, Eartha Kitt and James Brown. 4,2,9,3
  7. 16. Actress who was young Estella in David Lean's film of Great Expectations and Orry's mother in North and South 4,7
  8. 18. Binomial name of red or true fox. 6,6
  9. 23. Key herb ingredient in bearnaise sauce 8
  10. 27. Hodgson, Dalglish, Rodgers, Klopp, ____ 4
  11. 29. In a follow up to a 2022 New Year's Eve question, Just Stop Oil threw an orange substance at this landamrk in November 10
  12. 31. Usually only in April, what lies between Greenwich Park and The Mall 3,6,8
  13. 32. Bank of England Governor 6,6
  14. 33. Former Capital City of Japan 5
  15. 35. Country known as Gold Coast until indepdence in 1957 5
  16. 37. Tallest building in Manhattan 3,5,5,6
  17. 38. The smallest Wainwright Fell 6,4
  18. 40. 41A is now better known as 5,5
  19. 41. Steven Demetre Georgiou is better known as 3,7
  20. 42. 263-267 Prinsengracht 4,5,5
Down
  1. 2. Paul McCartney's second wife 7,5
  2. 3. What goes the G stand for in ChatGPT 10
  3. 5. Private Eye Editor 3,6
  4. 8. Picture clue A: Title of this painting 7
  5. 10. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of _________ _______. Also the name of a 1980s film favourite of Beth 10,7
  6. 11. Code name for the Dunkirk evacuation, Operation _______ 6
  7. 12. Home of General Sherman 7,8,4
  8. 14. Original title of novel translated into German as Fruchte Des Zorns 3,6,2,5
  9. 15. World's most liveable city in 2024, according to The Economist 6
  10. 17. Pilgrim trail known as Fordh Sen Mighal in the local language 2,8,3
  11. 19. What is the currency of Egypt? 5
  12. 20. Examples include Hoffman's, Linnaeus's, Maned, Brown-throated and pale-throated 5
  13. 21. In 2022, Old Etonian sacked by a Rotting Lettuce 5,8
  14. 22. Picture clue B: Where are we. 4,6
  15. 24. "I have taken more out of __________ (7) than __________ (7) has taken out of me" Winston Churchill 7
  16. 25. Wishful Drinking is the memoir of which Hollywood actress? 6,6
  17. 26. Matt Damon is to Glen Campbell as Jeff Bridges is to 4,5
  18. 28. What was the name of young Scrooge’s employer in A Christmas Carol, memorably played by Fozzie Bear in the Muppets adaptation 8
  19. 29. Location of Hotel del Coronado, famously seen in Some Like it Hot 3,5
  20. 30. Traditional filling of Fraisier cake, Crème __________ 10
  21. 31. New York home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono 3,6
  22. 32. Southern hemisphere equivalent of the Northern Lights 6,9
  23. 34. Knighted for services to justice in 2024 4,5
  24. 36. British gold medal winner of women’s 800 metres in Paris 2024 Olympics 6,10
  25. 39. Spotify's most streamed song of 2024 8