On This Day

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Across
  1. 3. Supermarket mogul kidnapped by the IRA in 1981 (3,5)
  2. 8. Insane song released by Patsy Cline (5)
  3. 9. Actress; born, not murdered in 1925...she wrote (6,8)
  4. 13. A legendary Irishman born in Dublin in 1950 (6,8)
  5. 14. Irish Military leader and statesman; born in Clonakilty in 1890 (7,7)
  6. 15. Boisterous playwright born in Westland Row, Dublin in 1854 (5,5)
  7. 18. Famous book written by Charlotte Bronte is first published in 1847 (4,4)
Down
  1. 1. American Andy Dufresne actor born in 1958 (3,7)
  2. 2. Karol Jozef Wojtyla elected god's 'representative' in 1978 (4,8,2)
  3. 4. David, the first Israeli Prime Minister was born in 1886 (3-6)
  4. 5. In 1793 in Paris she lost her head over some cake (5,10)
  5. 6. US cartoon company founded in 1923 (4,6)
  6. 7. A wingless bloodsucking red hot chilli insect is born in 1962 (4)
  7. 10. English Big Brother presenter (and annoying hair-colour ads star) born in 1967 (6,6)
  8. 11. Westmeath's favourite singer is born in 1939 (so that rules out Niall Horan) (3,5)
  9. 12. South African anti-apartheid cleric wins Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (7,4)
  10. 16. English musician & 'Kray twin' born in 1959 (4,4)
  11. 17. Annoying pop twins with shocking hair born in Dublin in 1991 (7)